Introduction

Storyboard Editor plugin for Adobe XD creates a storyboard easily. Please watch the demo below.

• https://storyboard.ink/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/SbE-finished_02192022.mp4

You can insert texts of captions or titles into a storyboard table on a XD document and, you can place an image too.

There is a sister tool called Storyboard Importer extension for Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Animate. This tool imports storyboard data exported from Storyboard Editor plugin. It places captions and images of a storyboard data onto a timeline sequence in Pr, Ae, An.

Storyboard Editor plugin for Adobe XD

• create an empty storyboard
• import
  • storyboarder project of Wonder Uniter storyboader application.
  • worksheet image to split into images of boards
  • images to be aligned to boards
  • fountain script is imported
• board properties
  • duration
  • image
  • source text
  • comment
• board functions
  • add
  • update
  • clear
  • remove
• selection
  • move or select
  • auto numbering
• export
  • as markdown

Storyboard Importer extension for Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Animate

• imports a markdown file exported from Storyboard Editor plugin.
• imports a storyboard json exported from Stroyboard Editor plugin.

Storyboard Viewer

this is a Win/Mac app

• quickly previews json/makrdown files of storyboards exported from Storyboard Editor plugin

Downloadables from github

https://github.com/kwiksher/storyboard-editor-plugin/releases

Storyboard Editor plugin for Adobe XD

• storyboard-editor.xdx

  double click the xdx file to install into Adobe XD

Storyboard Viewer

• storyboard-viewer-mac.dmg
• storyboard-viewer-win.zip

Storyboard Importer extension for Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Animate

• com.kwiksher.storyboard-importer.zxp

  use

Sample file

• sample_kwik_the_cat.zip

Tools of 3d Parties

There are good tools to create a fountain script and visual images of storyboards on the Internet. The following tools are not mandatory to use Storyboard Editor Plugin but they will create a fountain script, and pngs, jpegs images easily. See Workflow chapter.

Screenwriting software

• FadeIn

  A desktop text-editor for screenplay. It has helpful functions and user interfaces for writing scripts. It can export a fountain script for other storyboard applications or video-making software.

Drawing software for storyboard

• Wonder Unit Storyboarder

  It is a desktop application to visualize a story - a free and open-source project of Wonder Unit Inc. It can import a fountain script and then you can draw shots associated with the scene description of a fountain script.