TVP952 Storyboard // Project Tab

[Klaus Hoefs]

So far I tested the new storyboard possibilities in 95x.
First of all: Congratulations ! It's really great and very useful. I love it.

Of course one can use it as trad. storyboard-tool but for me it is more a project-organizer. You can organize your clips of your current project and re-arrange them, split them and many more things.
So it's so easy to preview how the clips are working for the project and with a simple click on a specific clip your just in it's timeline and able to modify the clip.
In the Project Tab every clip has also a thumbnail preview - nice to have.

Preview:

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I've uploaded a larger project as a html-output. And automatically it generates clip-number, duration, "Action-formular" and others:
You can find it here: http://www.inf.fh-flensburg.de/hoefs/+m ... room3.html


You can also export for e-mail (!!) or as EDL (which I've not tested yet).
There are some things that imo could be improved:
If the html-file and it dependencies is stored on HD it is easy to have an animated (gif) preview that will run while mouse-over the thumbs (not exact framerate, of course).
I uploaded it in my University's server and the animated previews as thumbs or after clicking on them as larger previews are take too long to load because of their file-sizes.

Anyway the new Project Tab came as as surprise to me - I am very happy with it and it will change my workflow. Although for sure I haven't found out everything about it by now I can say, it is definetely a great help for larger projects !!!

[Paul Fierlinger]

I went to your website and I am curious about the second clip which is a pan. How was that done? Did you make the pan outside of the Project Tab, which is waht it looks like to me, but seeing the red lines of the camera move suggests you might not have gone that route.

If you want to make the memory size of the html smaller, it is pretty simple to first modify the size of the entire project using the modifier the same way as if it were a single project. -- it takes less time than you might think.

[Klaus Hoefs]

http://www.inf.fh-flensburg.de/hoefs/+mm/pan.mp4

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You're right the pan-clip was done before TVP951 was published, and I just wanted to have the red symbol on the sheet for storyboard output.

Thanks for the tip concerning how to get smaller files (in fact mine was 376 MB). I think it would be good to have this tip in the Appendix ! (Elodie?)

On the long run it would be nice to have this ability in the "Render Storyboard/Export Storyboard to HTML" -menu directly.

[Paul Fierlinger]

If you create a camera move in an odd shaped project such as a panorama, you can go to Project>Render Camera to a New Project. This will give you the result you have now and you can copy the icon and paste it into your storyboard panel.

In the reverse case, when you want to create an odd shaped project from a panel in the storyboard, RMB menu and select Create a new project from selected clip. Then by using the Modify Panel you can change the new projects shape and size to create a camera move.

[Klaus Hoefs]

Paul thanks for the tips.

Indeed the new Camera Tool is awesome. Now it is possible to draw outside the cam-region and it's also an easy and a quick task to integrate pans/zoom in the Project Tab.
I made a pan with one hold just so easy to do with the cam's Profile Editor. No keyframes.

preview of new camera tool action

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There is also a new button at the bottom of the project window nearby the playback controls which gives preview of what you will get out after rendering the camera to a new project.

pan with new cam tool and a hold done in the Profile Editor

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[Paul Fierlinger]

Glad to see you getting it so quickly... I stretch the profile editor along the length of my timeline to pinpoint accurately the frames on which I need to start and end holds etc.