BoardMaster Help

Welcome to BoardMaster StoryBoard and Timing Software. BoardMaster software allows you to create a storyboard project using black and white or color images. These images can be created using common image editing or painting software or built right in BoardMaster. Images can also be brought directly into the software from most TWAIN devices like scanners and digital cameras. BoardMaster also has an image builder where you can construct your image using clipart and backgrounds. Image files are imported into the project using a point and click interface. Once part of the project, dialog and action comments are added to each storyboard panel. The panels can be organized and printed producing a high quality presentation of your board. Recorded sound files known as wav or midi files can be attached to each panel in the board. As the sound files are attached to the project, BoardMaster keeps track of your changes, and at any time can provide a timing summary of the current state of your work. BoardMaster automatically numbers film footage. Scripts can be attached to a project, allowing the user to simply click on a panel and instantly bring up the point in the script that corresponds with a particular part of the story board. Once done, your storyboard can be played back as a full screen animatic giving a real representation of the flow of the story, and an opportunity to capture potential errors in the flow, logic, or timing. Need to show your story to someone? What better way than running the animatic on a laptop. BoardMaster also has export capabilities which allow a project to be exported and then transferred to another BoardMaster user. As an alternative, projects can be exported to web pages for use on the Internet or Intranet or Exported to an AVI file.

To install BoardMaster insert the CD into your CDROM drive. The install program should begin automatically within a few seconds . Follow the instructions to install BoardMaster. If the install program does not start when you insert the CD, simply navigate to your CDROM drive (usually D: drive) using Windows Explorer, and double click on the file Setup.exe. BoardMaster will install a "Sample" project which may be deleted if not desired. The BoardMaster clip art will remain on the BoardMaster CD as it takes up a lot of disk space. You may copy the Clipart folder off of the CD to your local drive if you wish. BoardMaster can also be uninstalled using Add-Remove Programs from your computers Control Panel.

Requirements

BoardMaster recommends using a Pentium 200 with 32 MEG RAM or better. BoardMaster requires about 25MB of free disk space. The software also requires a sound card and Windows 95, 98, 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 with the appropriate service packs for DirectX support. Minimum screen resolution is 600 x 800 pixels. BoardMaster may run on a 486 computer but performance will be sluggish.

The actual requirements will depend on how high the resolution is of the images used in the project. For higher resolution images a quicker system is required. For larger projects a higher end system is recommended.

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