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Stage view grids - Storyboard Pro Tutorial

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Stage view grids

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- Story Board Pro provides you with the tools for live action and animation productions to help you place your visual elements or your graphic texts into your story board within the various fields or safe guidelines. Here's a bunch of grid options. Luckily, a bunch of them are preset and, if you look underneath your stage view or your camera view, you'll see the series of icons in the bottom left. Let's click on the first one. First one is Thumbnail. I don't know why they added this, all it does is make my drawing look bad and blurry, so we're going to turn that off and forget about it because I've never used it and I'm not going to. The second icon here is simply called Grid. The default for Grid, when you turn it on, is a 12 field grid. You can see, on the edges, there's a west, north, east, and south. That way we know what direction it is, and you'll notice it counts up and down, one to 12, all the way across. Where this will help is if production says, "Let's go into an eight…

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