Storyboard software
The board, off the PDF.
Build storyboards frame by frame, or drop in the director's PDF and watch it become one: panels cropped exactly, captions split into scene, action and camera, frames drawn in the shape they were drawn in.
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Import a board from PDF
The director's PDF becomes frames
ZELVARA · BOARD · PAGE 1
SHOT 1A
ACTION Close on her breath in the cold.
CAMERA Slow push in.
VO Start the day clear.
SHOT 1B
ACTION She takes the city steps two at a time.
CAMERA Locked off, side on.
VO Nothing added.
ZELVARA_board_v2.pdf · 8 pages
The problem
The board arrives as a PDF, and turning it into something the job can use means retyping every caption and cropping every panel by hand. So nobody does, and the board stays a dead attachment.
Every frame, with everything it needs.
A storyboard here is a grid of frames in order, and every frame carries its own notes: the scene, what happens, the sound and anything else the crew should know. Add frames and drag them into order, and the numbers follow.
An image per frame
Upload a drawing or pick an image from the project's assets.
Scene, description, sound, notes
Four fields on every frame, so the board is readable without the director in the room.
Drag to reorder
Move a frame and every frame after it renumbers itself.
Several boards per job
One board for the hero spot, another for the cutdowns, each listed beside the grid.
Undo and redo
Snapshot history per board, on the keyboard shortcut.
Storyboard · Hero spot
Frames in order, every frame with its notes
Scene
Description
Sound
Notes
The shoe hits the trail
Her breath
The city steps
Coffee after
Why she runs
Frames that keep their shape.
Boards are drawn for the format they will run in. Choose 16:9, 4:5, 9:16 or 1:1 and every frame redraws in that shape, showing the whole picture rather than a strip cut out of the middle.
Four frame shapes
16:9 for broadcast, 4:5 and 1:1 for feeds, 9:16 for vertical.
Detected on import
A board read from a PDF picks up its own frame shape automatically.
Never cropped
The full image is always shown, on the page, in review and in the PDF.
Storyboard · Hero spot
Frames drawn in the board's own shape
The whole picture is always shown, never cropped to fit the box.
The board, straight off the PDF.
Directors send boards as PDFs. Drop one in and the app finds each frame on every page, reads the caption next to it and files it into the right fields. The shot list comes with it, with every row already carrying its frame.
Finds the frames
Each picture on each page becomes a frame, with logos and page furniture left out.
Captions filed properly
Shot numbers, action, camera, voiceover and notes each land in their own field.
Check before it goes in
Every frame is shown with its number and first line before you import.
A shot list too
When the board has both, the shot list is created alongside, each row matched to its frame by number.
Import a board from PDF
The director's PDF becomes frames
ZELVARA · BOARD · PAGE 1
SHOT 1A
ACTION Close on her breath in the cold.
CAMERA Slow push in.
VO Start the day clear.
SHOT 1B
ACTION She takes the city steps two at a time.
CAMERA Locked off, side on.
VO Nothing added.
ZELVARA_board_v2.pdf · 8 pages
Your team first. Then the client.
Send the board into the project's review so your team can pin notes and greenlight it. Then share it with the client, who reviews the board itself, pins notes on the frame they mean, and approves it.
Internal review
The board appears on the project's Review page, with team notes and a greenlight.
Then share with the client
A link with no login, from the same place, once the team is happy.
Pinned notes and drawings
The client pins a comment or draws on the frame they mean.
Approve or request changes
One clear decision, with the notes that explain it.
Into the client binder
Add the approved board to the project binder with everything else the client needs.
Storyboard · Hero spot
Your team first, then the client
Team notes
The client sees the board once your team has greenlit it and shared the link.
A board that looks like it came from a studio.
Present the board on screen or print it as a PDF, with a dark cover carrying the job details and two frames to a page so every note is readable at print size. Email it from the app with a review link attached.
A proper cover
Client, agency, director and job number from the job block you filled in once.
Two frames a page
Big enough to read, with the frame number on the picture and its notes beneath.
Prints in light
The PDF always prints light, whatever theme you work in.
Email with a review link
Send it with a respond-by date, and the client reviews it in the browser.
Present · Storyboard
Looks like it came from a studio, because it did
STORYBOARD
Bright Water
Hero spot
Client
Bright Water
Agency
Northfield & Co
Director
Dana Reyes
Job no.
BW-0412
The difference
The PDF import actually reads the document.
Panel detection replays the PDF's own drawing operations to find each picture's exact rectangle, and captions are matched by geometry, by where the words sit on the page, never by asking a model to count panels and hoping it counts like we cut.
- Verified against real director's boards, not synthetic pages
- Doubled text layers, template furniture and footers are handled, because real exports have all three
- A wrong guess costs one click in the confirm step, never a bad import
Every board keeps the shape it was drawn in.
More the storyboard does
Client review with pins
Share a link, no login; notes land pinned on the frame they mean.
Internal sign-off
A greenlight round for the team, kept separate from the client's.
Email it
Send the review link from the app, with an optional respond-by date.
Present view
A clean, dark-covered export that looks like it came from a studio.
Per-frame sources
Pull a frame from the asset library or upload straight into the slot.
Cover block
Fill the job facts once; the shot list and storyboard exports share them.
Works with
Shot lists
Build, import, present
See how it worksWorks with
Client review
Approvals your clients will use
See how it worksThe whole toolkit
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