Can you convert keyframe panels into storyboard panels? Topic is solved

[BruceM]

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to convert key frames that you've created within the regular animation "Clip: Timeline" into a storyboard? After I've created a series of key frames within the regular Animation, Color, Background levels, when I click on the "Project" tab, it pulls up only one panel of my key frames. When I hold the stylus over that one panel, I can see all of the panels from my key frames rapidly playing within that small panel, but I can't figure out how to get them all to layout as a storyboard.

Thanks!
-Bruce

[NathanOtano]

In fact you have to consider the project view as your storyboard, one shot per clip panel, and inside each clip you have a background and you animate what is animated on your shot. So you better storyboard in project view, directly creating clips, instead of using instances in a clip. Does it make sense?

You can still use the split clip option to divide your keyframe in multiple clips if you prefer to storyboard all in one clip

[BruceM]

I think I get it. So you're saying that there really is no way to go from the instances, or key frames, that you draw in the timline to the project (storyboard), correct?
Thanks for your help, Nathan!

-Bruce

[NathanOtano]

Maybe I don't understand your question, but I think that splitting you clip will do the job of converting keyframes in different clips. No?

Recording your screen could help, I'm not sure of what you're asking.

EDIT : If you put your keyframes in differents clips, one clip for each shot, then you can export you clips as a storyboard pdf. Maybe it's what you're asking? Here : http://www.tvpaint.com/v2/content/artic ... hp?lang=en" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[BruceM]

Sorry Nathan! I don't know enough about TVP yet to navigate this stuff, but I've attached 2 screen grabs. The first is what my panels look like in the "Clip:Timeline" view, and the 2nd screen grab is what it looks like when I click on the "Project" tab. When I hold the stylus over the single image in the "Project" view, I can see that all of the images (panels) are there and playing within the tiny single panel, but I don't know how to then make them all display as a storyboard.
Can that be done?

-Bruce

[slowtiger]

Do this:
Create a new project. Draw 3 frames, with something in it like A B C.
Go to frame B. Go to the Animator Panel (it pops out when you hover the cursor on the right window border). Select "Split Clip".
You'll see that frame A vanishes from the timeline.
Go to project view. Voila, ther's a clip containing just teh A frame, and another clip containing frames B and C.

This is how to make seperate clips from frames in a timeline.

[BruceM]

Thanks for walking me through that, Slowtiger! That worked!
It feels a little clumsy to have to go in and keep splitting the clips until they're all separated, but it does work!

-Bruce

[NathanOtano]

Thanks for walking me through that, Slowtiger! That worked!
It feels a little clumsy to have to go in and keep splitting the clips until they're all separated, but it does work!

-Bruce

Yeah you have to take the habit to work with clips right from the beginning to avoid separating them later

[BruceM]

I'll try that Nathan, but it seems to me that I switched over to the timeline because I was having difficulty figuring out how to create the color & background layers when I started with the 'Project" tab.

Thanks for your help!

-Bruce

[BruceM]

... one more question about this: when I publish the storyboard, the number above the first panel says "0" rather than "1" (see attachment). How do I change that to read "1" instead of "0"?

-Bruce

EDIT : ok I found it.