It is not possible to manually change the numeration of the numbers in the upper left corner because those numbers necessarily refer to the SCENE Numbers and the CLIP numbers (how many clips within each SCENE) that make up the totality of the animatic.
In my example here I have 3 SCENES:
SCENE 1 (pink color group) has 8 CLIPS. (the first clip is 1/8 , the second clip is 2/8 , the third clip is 3/8 , and so forth ...)
SCENE 2 (green color group) has 4 CLIPS. (the first clip is 1/4, the second clip is 2/4 , the third clip is 3/4 , the fourth clip is 4/4)
SCENE 3 (yellow color group) has 3 CLIPS. (the first clip is 1/3 , the second clip is 2/3 , the third clip is 3/3 )
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By default you start with one SCENE and one CLIP , so the number at the upper left is
1 - 1/1 (SCENE 1 - CLIP 1 of 1 )
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The buttons to the left have options of
+1 SCENE (either before or after the current Scene) or
+1 CLIP (before or after current Clip).
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TVPaint is using the definition of "SCENE" as
"a series of shots that together comprise a single, complete and unified dramatic event, action, unit, or element of film narration, or block (segment) of storytelling within a film" , but TVPaint's use of the term "CLIP" is what most live-action filmmakers would call a "SHOT" :
"a single, constant take uninterrupted by editing, interruptions or cuts". When you cut , it's the start of a new SHOT (CLIP). A group of CLIPS (SHOTS) make up a SCENE.
When I worked at Disney Feature Animation in the 1987 - 2004 era we used the terminology SEQUENCE and SCENE. So a Sequence would be something like an entire song sequence -- "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid , while Scenes referred to the individual shots within that Sequence. Other animation studios I worked at in Canada and Los Angeles area used the same terminology of SEQUENCE and SCENE . What we referred to as a
SCENE is what live-action filmmakers and VFX or CG animators would call a
SHOT . (and TVPaint calls a
CLIP) The terminology of SEQUENCE and SCENE was a holdover from the older Disney animation studio terminology inherited by the "new generation" who started to come into the studio in the 1970's and 80's . I remember on films like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" , working with Industrial Light & Magic it puzzled the ILM people that the Disney people would refer to "SCENES" , which the ILM people called "SHOTS".
