Product Update (For Version 1.0 ONLY!!!):

Users of BoardMaster Storyboard and Timing Software have great ideas for improvement of this product and we listen! We have and will continue to make small improvements to our product based on your suggestions and make them available for download to our users. We will also consider more demanding requests for version two. The update includes usability enhancements as well as some minor bug fixes. For a detailed list of these changes see the pages below. To install this update, locate the file BoardMaster.exe on your system. Rename this file to BoardMaster.old. Download the new BoardMaster.exe and place it in the same directory where the old file was located. This update will not function without a fully registered version of the product installed.

Enhancements:

Timing Summary - The timing summary has been enhanced to display and print a running total of the time allocated for each panel, and a running total of the film footage.
Context Menu - The context menu has been modified to include "Copy Image As Bitmap" when right clicking on a panel.
Freezing the Animatic - Clicking the right mouse button while running the animatic will "freeze" the panel. To resume the animatic, click with the left mouse button. The animatic will continue on the next panel.
Changing the Default Time for new Panels - An addition has been made to the project settings where the user can now change the default time applied to new panels added to the project.
Support for 25FPS PAL format - The timing summary and timing displayed on the storyboard page now supports 25fps as well as the original 24 and 30fps.

Bug Fixes:
Animatic Setup - If you are using large fonts on your system you may experience some problems in the Animatic Setup Dialog where some items on the dialog are placed incorrectly. This has been fixed and is included in the update above.

Known Issues:
Canon Canoscan FB620P - If you are using this scanner, use the software supplied with the scanner to scan your images. Add your images from file to create your board. This scanner may cause an exception in our product.
Starting a project by clicking the .bdm file from explorer - If you double click on a .bdm file from explorer the application will start properly and load your project. You may however get an annoying dialog that says "a component cannot be found". To get rid of this dialog go to <View><Options> in Windows Explorer, select the File Types Tab. Locate and select the .bdm listing. Select <Edit> and <Edit> again on the File Type Dialog. Uncheck the check box that says "Use DDE".

Note: Ensure that the new functionality provided in the update works correctly before relying on it for production. The update has not been tested as fully as the installed product version.

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