Installation And Getting Started Guide

Installation and Getting Started Guide Published by Toon Boom Animation Inc. Corporate Headquarters 7 Laurier Avenue East Montreal, Quebec Canada H2T 1E4 Tel: (514) 278-8666 Fax: (514) 278-2666 www.toonboom.com Disclaimer The content of this manual is covered by a specific limited warranty and exclusions and limit of liability under the applicable License Agreement as supplemented by the special terms and conditions for Adobe®Flash® File Format (SWF). Please refer to the License Agreement and to those special terms and conditions for details. The content of this manual is the property of Toon Boom Animation Inc. and is copyrighted. Any reproduction in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. For additional copies of this manual, please contact Toon Boom Animation Inc. at the Corporate Headquarters address. Copyright © 2007 by Toon Boom Animation Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks Toon Boom Storyboard is a trademark owned by Toon Boom Animation Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Credits Documentation Development: Peter Cawthorne Content Development and Art: Lindsay Brown, Tania Gray Publication Date March 2007 Contents Welcome to Toon Boom Storyboard .........................2 Introduction............................................................................. 2 Check Your System Requirements .......................................... 3 Minimum Mac OS X system requirements......................... 3 Minimum Windows system requirements.......................... 3 Installing on Mac ................................................................ 3 Installing on Windows ........................................................ 4 Checking the Security Dongle ................................................ 4 Preparing To Create Your Storyboard .................................... 4 Getting Started ....................................................................... 5 Launching Toon Boom Storyboard .................................... 5 Creating Your Storyboard.................................................. 7 Storyboard Layouts ............................................................ 8 Text .................................................................................... 9 Drawings and Images......................................................... 10 Drawing directly in Storyboard ...................................... 11 Importing images or video............................................. 11 Reusing Images .............................................................. 13 Reordering Layers .......................................................... 13 Timing ................................................................................ 14 Transitions .......................................................................... 14 Inserting Transitions ......................................................…