Guides & references
How Upshot fits into a production: the open project format, moving boards through professional pipelines, and working from an iPad.
The open .sboardx format (SVG + JSON)
Every Upshot storyboard exports as a Storyboard Package (.sboardx), an uncompressed zip of plain SVG drawings and a JSON manifest. Public spec, web reader, Toon Boom scripts, Apache-2.0.
Read →The Toon Boom import/export scripts
Open-source scripts for Toon Boom Storyboard Pro that import and export Upshot's .sboardx files, so boards drawn on the iPad drop into a Storyboard Pro pipeline and revisions come back.
Read →Importing AAF into Avid Media Composer
Step-by-step guide to bringing an Upshot storyboard sequence into Avid Media Composer over AAF — project setup, importing the file, and relinking the panel media with Batch Re-Import.
Read →Importing AAF into Storyboard Pro
How to bring an Upshot AAF into Toon Boom Storyboard Pro with the Conformation workflow, what it conforms, the frame-rate check, and when to use the .sboardx scripts instead.
Read →Web Reader
Open any .sboardx file in the browser: flip through panels, play the timing, and check a board without installing anything. Runs entirely on your machine; nothing is uploaded.
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