Timeline View

Video tracks can be added below or above the Storyboard track to show images or videos in overlay or underlay.

Each video track has the following toggle buttons:

• Visible / Hidden: If the video track is hidden, its video clips will not be visible in the Stage View and the Camera View.
• Solo Mode Off / Solo Mode On: When Solo Mode is enabled for a video track, only its video clips will be visible in the Stage View and the Camera View.
• Unlocked / Locked: When a video track is locked, it is not possible to add, remove or edit clips inside it, nor to manipulate its clips in the Stage View and Camera View.
• Synced / Unsynced: When Sync is enabled for a video track, when moving or offsetting a panel, any video clip that is cued during this panel will move along with it, to remain synchronized with the action.

For scenes where the camera is animated, this allows you to see and manipulate the keyframes of the camera movements. A dark grey bar displays between camera keyframes to indicate that the camera moves.

• Previous Keyframe: Moves the timeline playhead to the previous keyframe on the track
• Add Keyframe / Remove Keyframe: If no keyframe is at the current frame, this adds a keyframe. If a keyframe is at the current frame, this deletes the keyframe.
• Next Keyframe: Moves the timeline playhead to the next keyframe on the track.

The track containing the panels and scenes of your storyboard.

Contrary to the Thumbnails view, the width of each panel and scene is relative to their length in the animatic.

The number of the sequence in which the timeline cursor is.

The number of the scene in which the timeline cursor is.

The number of the panel in which the timeline cursor is.

If the currently selected layer is animated, this allows you to see and manipulate the keyframes of the layer. A dark grey bar displays between layer keyframes to indicate that the layer is animated.

• Previous Keyframe: Moves the timeline playhead to the previous keyframe on the track
• Add Keyframe / Remove Keyframe: If no keyframe is at the current frame, this adds a keyframe. If a keyframe is at the current frame, this deletes the keyframe.
• Next Keyframe: Moves the timeline playhead to the next keyframe on the track.

Where you can put sound clips to play sound along with your animatic. Your project can have several audio tracks.

Each audio track has the following toggle buttons:

• Mute Off / Mute On: If an audio track is muted, you will not hear its sound clips during playback or while scrubbing.
• Solo Mode Off / Solo Mode On: When Solo Mode is enabled on an audio track, you will only hear this track's sound clip during playback or while scrubbing.
• Unlocked / Locked: When an audio track is locked, it is not possible to add, remove or edit clips inside it.
• Synced / Unsynced: When Sync is enabled for an audio track, when moving or offsetting a panel, any sound clip that is cued during this panel will move along with it, to remain synchronized with the action.

When enabled, the part of the soundtrack that is at the current frame will play every time you move the timeline cursor, allowing you to navigate the timeline of your animatic by sound. This makes it easier to synchronize the action and the audio in your animatic.

Enable this option to make sound clips align with the beginning and end of panels in the animatic when you move or resize them.

Enable this option to be able to move a video or sound clip over another video or sound clip. The part of the target clip that meshes with the clip being moved will be cut out.

By default, every change you make in the lengths of your scenes and panels will result in subsequent scenes and panels to ripple backward or forward, so as to make sure there is no hole in the timeline.

When Animatic Editing Mode is enabled, you can reposition the in-point and out-point of each panel without affecting anything else in your your animatic. This means that, in this mode, shortening or deleting a panel creates a hole in the timeline in which another panel can be extended, moved or created. You can also delete panels or scenes and leave holes behind instead of rippling subsequent panels backward.

Then, in the gaps you created in your animatic, you can move existing panels, create new panels or resize a panel next to the gap to fill it.

In this way, Animatic Editing Mode makes the workflow in Storyboard Pro more similar to that of a typical video editing software, which may make editing easier for users who are familiar with this kind of application.

Opens a menu containing the following options:

• Show Camera Track: Show or hide the Camera movement track above the Storyboard track.
• Show Layer Track: Show or hide the Layer animation track beneath the Storyboard track.
• Show Waveform: Displays a waveform inside the audio clip, allowing you to see where the audio peaks so you can sync the action with it.
• Show Volume: Displays a volume envelope throughout the sound clip. By default, this envelope is a straight line in the middle of the clip, indicating that the volume of the clip is neutral all throughout. You can add keyframes to the envelope, and move them up or down to modulate the volume of the sound clip as it plays.
• Show Sound Clip Names: Displays the name of the audio file inside each sound clip.
• Overwrite Clips: Enable this option to be able to move a video or sound clip over another video or sound clip. The part of the target clip that meshes with the clip being moved will be cut out.
• Change Frame When Clicking on Tracks: Enable this to automatically move the timeline cursor to the position of the mouse cursor when you click on a video or audio track. By default, the timeline cursor only moves when you click on the timeline ruler or on the camera, storyboard or layer track.
• Snapping: Enable this option to make sound clips align with the beginning and end of panels in the animatic when you move or resize them.

If acts are enabled, these markers indicate when a new act starts as well as the number of this act.

This indicates transitions between two scenes. The transition will have a specific appearance depending on the type of transition used:

Preview	Transition Type
	Dissolve
	Edge Wipe
	Clock Wipe
	Slide

Allows you to select a point in your timeline to work on your animatic.

Dragging the timeline cursor displays the animatic at the precise point in time where the cursor is in the Stage and Camera views, allowing you to scrub through your animatic. It will also automatically set the current panel to the panel the cursor is over, allowing you to edit that panel.

Scenes are defined by rounded rectangles with their upper and lower edges visible above and below their panels.

Each keyframe in the Camera animation track defines a position for the camera. If two or more camera keyframes are in the same scene, the camera will be animated from each keyframe to the next keyframe, creating a camera movement.