Storyboard Pro: Exporting to Quicktime + UPDATE

Rocquita Animatic - Scene 14 from Eddie Mort on Vimeo.

UPDATE: After tests on the animatic on different computers at Toonboom and here, the conclusion was reached that the problem lay with my computer, and not Storyboard Pro. Oops. Lili was able to export the 100+ scenes with sound in a matter of minutes. -Eddie

I published this Quicktime to test Storyboard Pro's 'Export Movie' capabilities. Despite using the lowest picture/audio settings this scene still took 48 1/2 minutes to export to Quicktime! That's right - over 48 minutes to render a 3-second scene. With a 10-minute animatic to export, I am understandably freaking out over how long this will take.

[Waiting for reply from Toonboom Support]

Anyone else created an animatic (with sound)? What was your rendering time?

Also: I'm not real happy with the intrusive display - I.E. scene number, running time etc. I'm not sure why it has been devised to appear over the visuals, rather than in the top corner. Yes, you do have the option to forego this at export stage, but this information is necessary if you are working on a studio production.

UPDATE: We discovered that we could SUCCESSFULLY render the animatic on my PC (it was pretty fast), so the rendering problem was with Eddie's PC. We're not sure why, if it's a processor speed thing or something else...

10 minutes of animatic (with dialog wav files, but no music and no camera moves yet) took about 5 minutes to render.

Storyboard Pro: Sound Editing

Adding Sound to Animatic

As demonstrated by Eddie in Storyboard Pro

storyboard pro, animatic, sound

Storyboard Pro: From Storyboard to Animatic

Toonboom Storyboard Pro - Creating ROCQUITA Animatic 

Eddie had already created the storyboard for our ROCQUITA pilot in STORYBOARD PRO. Some panels were drawn directly in SB PRO; others were drawn in Flash and imported as swfs. In this video, he is importing dialog tracks into SB PRO and timing out each scene. 

Sidenote: Storyboard Pro exports to Quicktime, SWF or Image Sequence.

We could also export the whole storyboard (no sound) to PDF format though this takes hours to do, depending on how long your board is. In the case of ROCQUITA, there are 148 scenes and it took about 6 hours (!) to render to a PDF file.