ShotGlide 3.0 is in the works, and it's our biggest update so far. Cut your sequence to music or dialogue and time every shot to the beat. Rough out your frames, then ink them clean right on top. Select any number of shots in one sweep and move, duplicate or park them anywhere, even into another scene. Keep every shot description in view while you draw. Many of these new features came directly from your feedback and requests. Thank you to everyone who shared ideas, reported issues, and helped shape this release. Here's what's coming in version 3.0: 🎧 Timeline View with Audio Drop in music, dialogue or a temp track right under your boards. Up to 6 tracks with waveforms, markers that snap picture to sound, and frame-accurate retiming by simply dragging the cuts. Export your animatic with the sound baked in. 👻 Ghost Ink Sketch loose, then draw your final lines over it. Your roughs stay separate from your clean lines, show or hide in a tap, and never end up in an export. 🧅 Onion Skin in Focus Mode See the frames before and after, faded under your pen. Match eyelines, hold continuity and block movement across the cut. You can even pin any frame as a reference. ☑️ Select Mode in Board View Restructure a sequence in seconds. Tick your shots or drag a selection around them, then move or duplicate them in bulk, even into another scene, or park and clear many shots in one go. 📝 Frame Descriptions While You Draw Your shot description sits right under the frame in Focus Mode, and under every frame in Board View if you like. No more flipping back to Script View. 🎬 Film Term Suggestions Your notes autocomplete film terms as you type: start with "dol" and Dolly In is one tap away. You can add your own terms too, perfect for the gear, character names or locations you type again and again. We hope it will help your workflow, and thank you again for all the feedback. It has genuinely helped shape this update.
The current eraser even when set on “small” is often removing too much of the lines from the drawings, which causes the need for certain parts of the drawings to frequently be redrawn, which is pretty inefficient. Could you add more precise eraser settings like extra small (XS) and extra extra small (XXS)? Even better would be an eraser size slider (like in procreate), so you can exactly decide for yourself how thick or thin the eraser is for each task. Would that be something that could be added?
For projects that require multiple aspect ratios, would it be possible to add the ability to change to different aspect ratios within the same project? Also the possibility to change the initially chosen aspect ratio after drawings have already been created, if it later turns out that another aspect ratio would be better suited for the project?
It would be good for animation (and maybe live action too) if for every shot/ frame it is possible to set how long it is held on screen. So if something is animated on “Twos” (standard in animation) the shot/ frame will be held for 2 consecutive frames, for action scenes it can be animated on “Ones” meaning that the frame is only held for 1 frame and for slower scenes it could be animated on “Threes” or “Fours” meaning the shot/ frame will be held on screen for 3 or 4 consecutive frames. The current available time formats seem less optimal for this. Would it be possible to add this feature, so you can manually adjust exactly how long each particular shot/ frame is held, (so there is no need to duplicate a held frame in the storyboard, but you only have to put each unique shot/ frame in the storyboard for less clutter.)? If this feature is added, could it also be shown at the top of each shot/ frame in overview mode and also automatically be applied in playback mode and in he video animatic?
i’m sorry, I don’t understand the logic of the left toolbar, specifically the behavior of the script view, board view, flow view, page view buttons. Why are they sometimes visible and why do they sometimes disappear? Shouldn’t they all always be visible? 🤔
Had another thought… Would be great if, while in Focus Mode, it were possible to zoom into the image to draw finer details. And to make this possible, it would be necessary to have more brush and eraser size options. A sliding controller or just smaller sizes would work. Thx again
This is the original posting: https://shotglide.featurebase.app/p/advanced-brush-size-slider-with-live-preview It seems to have been forgotten, so I am mentioning it again. I don’t really care if it’s a slider or an incremental small/med/large/x-large set of switches like we have for eraser. Somehow the current light/normal/bold/heavy controls don’t really work for me by themselves (I always end up using normal). Anyway, size of the brush would be great, particularly if it can extend our current range.
It would be nice if drawing tools (pencil, pen, marker, etc.) could remember their settings (color, density, etc.) When I storyboard on paper, I have my HB pencil, a black fineliner pen, and a light gray Copic marker out, and though I usually do pencil roughs first, ink lines next. and then some shading, in that general order, I also go back and forth between tasks as the storyboards get fleshed out. I don’t like having to open various palettes to switch colors or density presets. I think each tool should remember how it was set up rather than take on the settings of the previous tool. At least an option for this behavior would be appreciated.
See earlier and later frames as faint ghosts under your drawing, tinted red and green, up to 3 each side with adjustable strength.
It seems that we cannot set shots/frames to zero length (i.e., no time allotted). I often use a second or third frame in the board to describe elements of the shot in more detail (to highlight what particular layers of a comp are doing, for example) and, though I don’t want those to show up in the video animatic, I do want them in the PDF. And I don’t want them influencing overall runtime/ Please give users the ability to set a shot’s length as 0.0 so that the relevant frame will be skipped over during playback but rendered in the PDF. Maybe a way to do this already exists.
Now that we can draw notes in script view, it would seem a positive development to allow us to draw the frames here as well. Honestly, I think I would use this view for pretty much everything, switching over to Board View for adding, deleting, reordering frames, and adjusting timings. Am I wrong?
Many of its new features came directly from your feedback and requests. Thank you to everyone who shared ideas, reported issues, and helped shape this release. Here's what's new in version 2.2: NEW Handwritten notes and sketches next to your frames in Script View Script View in Standard or E-konte layout, with an optional full-width board Print your boards with typed or handwritten notes Auto create scenes from Final Draft, Fade In or Fountain scripts Framing overlays: frame lines, safe areas, rule of thirds and more PNG stills and image sequences, with optional alpha channel Save stills straight to Photos Select scenes in bulk to move them to Trash IMPROVED Gesture undo/redo tells you when there's nothing to undo/redo Sidebar opens scrolled to your current scene Undo after moving scenes to Trash Redesigned Trash Manager 'Find in Script' flashes the match Tap handwritten notes or sketches in Page View to edit them in Script View Dark mode version of the app icon Many other fixes and refinements We hope it helps your workflow, and thank you again for all the feedback. It genuinely helped shape this update.
It would be great to have the ability to work with a few simple layers. Basic layering would make storyboards much easier to build an edit. It would also be helpful to have a small library of arrows to communicate motion, direction and camera movements. Ideally these would sit on their own layer so they can be repositioned, resized, hidden or removed without affecting the illustration underneath.
ShotGlide fully localized in three more languages, on top of English, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese.
Hello, First thanks a lot for your application that i couldn’t find a similarity in other app. The features that i propose is simply by adding more control while in script mode such as the ability to add panel in the script mode before and after The ability to draw in script mode so i can see to what the draw relate The ability to remove the right panel from script mode the have a bigger vision of the drawing panel I really hope the app is still going to grow as i find it very useful. Thank
It would be nice, in the Board View, if we could view and edit frames in a 1-frame-wide row. For me anyway, this is less about the size of the drawing (I can use Focus View for drawing at larger size) than about seeing and working on scenes as a strip rather than as a grid. Context: In Japan we are so used to seeing the storyboard as a vertical timeline of images, that having to scan horizontally and then return to the left every 3, 4, or 5, frames is very distracting. Even live-action folks here work in a vertical format. I believe this reflects the Japanese way of writing from top to bottom — of course, traditional Japanese calligraphy is vertical, but even modern prose, newspapers, and official documents are written vertically (pretty much everything but the headlines, captions, and ingredients on food packages, which tend to be horizontal). And for what it’s worth, foreigners working in the system here seem to appreciate how this vertical format applies to storyboards in particular. Anyway, it would seem a fairly low-calorie modification to allow for a 1-row-wide display in board view. Please consider! 🙏
I exported my entire storyboard as images to get an overview, but - unless I’ve missed it – there isn’t an option to keep the shot number on my exported image. Admittedly, the images are named according to their shot number, but that isn’t enough; it would be very handy if we could choose to have it displayed on our exported image.
Export any frame, or a whole scene as an image sequence, as a PNG with an alpha channel. Strokes only, no background, ready to composite over plates or previz.
Focus Mode shows the frame's description right under the drawing. Tap it to read the full text, then tap the text to jump straight to that shot in Script View and edit it. In Board View, turn on Show text in Settings to see each frame's description under its panel.
Possibility to see what we put in description or at least first few words in drawing mode to be sure of what we got to draw . and ability to isolate more than 3 or 4 frames in drawing mode and get more Space to draw
Frame overlays for: Action Safe Title Safe Center Cross Rule of Thirds Golden Ratio Grid These should be check box controls, NOT mutually exclusive, so that Center Cross can be enabled with Grid, for example. These should be non-printing, non-exporting drawing aids. (Like Ghost Ink 😉) And perhaps a color or 0-100% opacity slider. Note: Action safe: 97%, Title Safe 90%. The grid should be a 6×6 proportional grid (useful for people like me who still remember field charts). For Golden Ratio, φ = 1.618, so 1/φ = 0.618 and the complement is 0.382. The divisions sit at 38.2% and 61.8% of each dimension, measured from either edge — symmetrical, so it doesn't matter which side you measure from. 16:9 example attached.