# Playing Back Your Storyboard

By synchronizing the storyboard panels and the soundtrack, you can create an animatic (also known as a Leica reel or test reel), on which your final animation will be based. An animatic is essentially a draft version of your animation. Use it to get a sense of the shot composition and timing of your animation. Editing the pace and sequence of shots at the animatic stage will prevent changes during the production stage, which at that point are more costly and time-consuming.

Toon Boom Storyboard animatics include the following features:

- You can play your animatic at any time in the Drawing View
- You can generate your animatic as a Flash or QuickTime movie: camera information is converted into actual camera movements
- All drawing transformations can be viewed in your animatic

The following tasks describe how to work with animatics:

- Viewing an Animatic in Toon Boom Storyboard
- Creating a Flash or QuickTime Animatic