Converting a Template or Group to a Drawing Layer

If you have imported an animated template or a template containing multiple elements such as a template created in Harmony, or a template made from importing a Flash Movie (.swf) file, you might not be able to edit it with the drawing tools. This is because the template is not a simple drawing layer.

To remedy this, you can convert layers that contain templates into simple drawing layers. Likewise, you can convert a group of drawing layers to a single drawing layer using the same method.

NOTES
  • In Storyboard Pro, a drawing layer can only contain one drawing for the whole panel, whereas a template may be animated and contain several frames with different drawings in each frame. If you convert an animated template to a drawing, the appearance of the template at current frame will be used to generate a static drawing layer.
  • Converting a template or a group to a drawing will discard any 3D object they contain.
  1. If your template is an animated template, move the timeline playhead to the frame which you want to use to make the drawing layer.
  1. Select the layer in which the template was imported or the group layer you wish to convert.
  1. Do one of the following:
    • Right-click the selected layer and select Convert to Drawing.
    • In the top menu, select Layer > Convert to Drawing.

    The selection is converted to a simple drawing layer, which you can now edit freely with the Storyboard Pro drawing tools.