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Hi there, I just recently acquired TVPaint Pro 11 and I'm trying to learn how to use the "project" panel to create storyboards and animatics. I think I understand most of it. However, there is one thing that I've been meaning to ask in regards to maintaining consistency with my storyboards. Is there a way that I could use the light table tool when making my storyboards and animatics? If there is please let me know.

I don't understand what you're asking for. A way to use the light-table between scenes?

I have just come across this post while searching for the same answer. I make now storyboards on TVPaint in the Project timeline view, and I wish I could use Light Table but I think it's impossible. Therefore this feature request: please add light table possibility in the Project view so that it could see not frames, but clips as source. Thanks

It's a nice idea, but which frame of the previous or following scenes would be displayed with the light table if there are more than one in each clip?

2dbert wrote: ↑17 Nov 2020, 19:03 It's a nice idea, but which frame of the previous or following scenes would be displayed with the light table if there are more than one in each clip?

Actually after storyboarding for a while with TVPaint I can say that Project panel needs a serious reworking in general but I will make all that into a general feature request soon. But to answer just your very good question - there should be a way to fix a clip on a certain frame and then the LT will use this stopped frame as a source. It could be a tiny playhead, or a frame number field, or a right click panel with both. I don't think it's very coplex as it already can play the inside frames - why not pause on one of them?

Maybe it can be kept even less complex. I just checked, and actually the project panel displays not necessarily the first frame of each clip, but the respective one that you were at when changing from clip to project view. When scrolling over the clip, it will also always return to that very frame. So the information is present somewhere in the project view already, and could possibly be applied to a Lightbox feature, too.

why not use the 'Image mark' mode of the lightable for this?
Seems to be the easiest route.
just make those 'see-able' over clip boundaries

Peter Wassink wrote: ↑18 Nov 2020, 14:39 why not use the 'Image mark' mode of the lightable for this?
Seems to be the easiest route.
just make those 'see-able' over clip boundaries

But this would mean that you have to go into each clip and mark those frames?

Of course,with any clip containing more than 1 frame you need to tell TVP which one to show (if it's not 1st frame by default).

slowtiger wrote: ↑18 Nov 2020, 21:06 Of course,with any clip containing more than 1 frame you need to tell TVP which one to show (if it's not 1st frame by default).

This is why I suggest to be able to choose those frames externally without going into the project each time.