Importing an Edited XML or AAF Sequence back for Conformation

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Once you have imported your project’s conformation (XML or AAF) into the third party software and completed editing, you will need to export it once again as an XML or AAF file to bring it back into your Storyboard Pro project.

NOTE Refer to your third party software’s documentation to learn how to export the animatic project in an XML or AAF file format.
IMPORTANT You can only reimport a modified conformation XML or AAF file into the original project from which it was first exported.

For more information about the options, see Conformation Import Project Dialog Box.

  1. In your original storyboard project, select File > Conformation > Import Animatic Project.

The Import Project window opens.

  1. Click the Browse button and locate your XML or AAF file.
  1. In the Options section, all of the options are enabled by default: 
    • Process Panels:Checking this option will provide you with options for how panels will be imported in the process of conformation.
    • Create Layers from PSD files:Checking this option will allow images in PSD file format from a third-party software to appear multiple-layer panels rather than a flat image when imported back into the Storyboard Pro project. Please note that modifications made to existing PSD images will not appear in Storyboard upon importing back the project as the original artwork is always preserved.
    • Use the Scene Reference track to conform scenes:Checking this option will use the timing of the reference scene in Storyboard Pro to accurately import panels into their parent scenes. Since there is no scene information in AAF or XML, this will avoid the problem of panels without matching IDs to be in one large scene upon conforming back to Storyboard.
    • Process Audio: Uncheck this if you don't want the changes done to the audio tracks or sound clips in the sequence you're importing to be applied to your Storyboard Pro project. Your project's audio tracks will be left untouched.
    • Process Video: Uncheck this option if you don't want the changes done to the panels, scenes or transitons in the sequence you're importing to be applied to your Storyboard Pro project. This can be useful if you only wish to conform edits to the project's audio tracks.
      • TIP You can import audio tracks composed from scratch in a video editing software by exporting them into an XML or AAF sequence, then importing the sequence via this dialog, with the Process Video option unchecked.
    • Process Captions: Uncheck this option if you don't want changes to captions done in the sequence you're importing to be applied to your Storyboard Pro project.
      • NOTE If you exported your captions without Rich Text Formatting, and made changes to them, they will lose their formatting when the changed captions are imported into your project.
  1. Click OK to return to the Import Project window.

The Report section displays information relative to the conformation process. If an error happened during the conformation process, this is also where the details relative to this error would appear.