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Edtior

Open XD with a new document or select the Custom Size W H as empty

the canvas is opened.

Shift + Control + P will open Plugin panel or click Plugin panel

  1. Open storyboard editor > Editor Panel

  2. New storyboard

    • Click Create button for a new storyboard. Let’s make 4 rows of boards

    • a new empty storyboard is created

    • Select the first row and you can input the values of Board Properties

  3. You can move the selection by clicking left or right button in Selection Tab

    • Select the first board and input the duration in mill second and the source text.

      • 00:03.0 mm:ss.msec for duration to be displayed
      • “Hellow World” is displayed as a Telop

    • Click Update button

    • Select the image placeholder

    • Edit in Photoshop or Paste an image

      A cat is drawn in Photoshop and the image is reflected in XD

    • Alternatively, you can use Browse button to select an image file

    • Click Update button

  4. Auto Numbering

    Please click Auto Numbering. The plugin sorts each board and the index (Cut #) and the total time in each board are updated in order.

  5. Export

    • check the name of the artboard to be exported.

    • click Markdown button. Folder select dialog is displayed. Browser to the folder you want to export the storyboard and click Open

    You can open the exported markdown file with a text editor like VS Code.

Now you have a markdown file. You can import it into Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effect or Animate with Storyboard Importer extension.

Preview

you can load a storyboard json file with Storyboard Viewer app

Select a .storyboarder

Preview Panel

Export button generates a A-GIF file.

When completed, you can find .gif in the same folder of .storyboarder. The gif runs at 2 frame per second