Export to Harmony Dialog Box

Destination Path

Allows you to specify the directory in which to save the exported files. You can click on the Browse button right of the field to browse your file system and select the destination folder.

Allows you to enter the prefix or the pattern for the names of the exported files. You can leave this field blank to use the default file naming pattern, type in a file name to use it as a prefix, or type a full pattern using the following variables:

• %t - Project title
• %a - Act number
• %q - Sequence number
• %s - Scene number

Export Type

When exporting Harmony Offline or Harmony Database scenes, lets you select whether to export scenes that are compatible with Harmony version 7.8 or with Harmony version 9.2 or Higher.

Export Style

Renders the animatic into a sequence of bitmap images that are assembled into the exported Harmony scenes. This ensures that the content of your animatic is accurately rendered in Harmony, especially if you intend to use an older version.

Resolution: Allows you to select the resolution of rendered frames relative to the project resolution between the following options: Full Size, Half Size or Quarter Size.

Generate One Scene: Allows you to select how to separate the project into Harmony scenes:

• Per Scene: Generates one scene for each scene in your project.
• Per Sequence: Generates one scene for each sequence in your project.
• Per Act: Generates one scene for each act in your project.

Optimize Still Images: When there is no animation or camera movement for a certain time span, a single drawing is rendered and its exposure is rendered until there is movement. If this option is disabled, one frame is rendered for every frame in your animatic, regardless of if there is movement or not.

Animatic on Top: If you generate scenes based on sequences or acts, this option becomes available. When enabled, the animatic is rendered and placed as the top layer and column in Harmony or Animate.

Exports the animatic directly into Harmony scenes without rendering it. This preserves the layers, drawings, 3D objects, images, videos and camera movements so that they can be used in Harmony. One scene will be generated for each scene in the project.

Nest Panels in Symbols: Upon export to Harmony or Animate, the panel's content will be nested inside symbols. Instead of having several layers in your root timeline, you will have a single one. You will need to enter the symbol to edit its content.

Add Camera Reference Layer: Adds a layer containing the different camera frames on top of the other layers to use as a reference in Harmony and Animate.

Apply Transformation on Drawings: Applies transformation on the first and last position of each panel. The in-between animation will be lost.

Export Range Tab

Exports the entire storyboard.

Select this option to export a specific selection of scenes. Then, click on the Select button to open the Scenes Picker dialog box, in which you can:

• Type the number of a sequence or of a scene in the Sequence or Scene fields in the Filter section, to only show matching sequences or matching scenes in the list.
• Click and drag to select a range of scenes.
• Hold the Ctrl key and click on each scene you want to add to your selection.
• Hold the Shift key, then click on the first scene and the last scene you want to add to your selection, to select every scene between those two scenes inclusively.
• If your project has sequences, click on a sequence to select every scene in that sequence.

Exports only the currently selected scene.

Sounds Tab

• Keep Original Files: Copies the sound clips from your project into the exported scenes, without mixing them.
• Process Audio Tracks Individually: Creates a mixed sound file for each audio track and stores each sound file into its own sound layer in the exported scene.
• Merge All Audio Tracks: Creates a single sound file with all the audio tracks merged and stores it into a single sound layer in the exported scene.
• Process Audio Tracks Individually and Merged: Creates a single sound file for each audio track and stores each sound file into its own sound layer, then adds an extra sound layer with all the audio tracks merged together.

• %t - Project title
• %a - Act number
• %q - Sequence number
• %s - Scene number
• %n - Sound track number

Sets the precision level of each wavelength in the sound file. The standard bit depth is 16 bit. Setting this to 8 bit will cut the size of audio files in half, but will significantly impact sound quality.

Burn-In Tab

Prints the project timecode on the video as an overlay on your video.

Prints the scene names and panel numbers as an overlay on your video.

Prints another time code counting the time for the current panel, scene or sequence, depending on what is selected in the Repeat drop-down.

Displays additional duration information using Time Code or Frames units.

Displays additional duration information per panel, scene or sequence.

Camera Grid Tab

Prints the Title Safe Area over the picture. By default, this area is 20% smaller than the camera frame. It is used as a guideline of the area that CRT displays might crop out of the picture. Visual elements such as text and logos should be placed within this area.

Prints the Action Safe Area over the picture. By default, this area is 10% smaller than the camera frame. It is used as a guideline of the area that CRT displays might crop out of the picture. Characters and action should be placed within this area.

Prints the title safe area and the action safe area for the 4:3 camera frame over the exported image. They can be used to position elements in projects that are meant to be displayed in both widescreen and 4:3 proportions.

Prints the 4:3 camera frame over the exported image. This frame corresponds to the camera frame if the aspect ratio of the picture was 4:3. It can be used to position elements in projects that are meant to be displayed in both widescreen and 4:3 proportions.

When enabled, you can use the options below to set the parameters of the Write node for the exported Harmony scenes, so that you won't have to configure the Write node for each exported scene individually in Harmony.

If this option is disabled, the Write node in the exported Storyboard Pro scenes will have the following default options:

• Drawing Folder: frames
• Drawing Filename: final-
• Drawing Type: TGA

Browse

You can type a simple path, so that every exported scene has the same image render path, or you can define a different image render path for each scene by typing in a pattern using the following variables:

• %t - Project title
• %a - Act number
• %q - Sequence number
• %s - Scene number

You can type a simple prefix, so that it is the same for all the exported scenes, or you can define a different prefix for each scene by typing in a pattern using the following variables:

• %t - Project title
• %a - Act number
• %q - Sequence number
• %s - Scene number

The image format in which the exported frames will be saved. Storyboard Pro can export in the following formats: