# Toon Boom Storyboard Animatic Feature

One of the advantages of using Toon Boom Storyboard is that you can make use of the
built-in animatic feature. An animatic consists of the storyboard’s pictures synchronized with the soundtrack. The Toon Boom Storyboard animatic features allows you to:

- View an animatic immediately without rendering, with or without camera movement, at any time during your storyboard development without using external software
- Export your storyboard in seconds to a QuickTime or Flash animatic, to preview the flow of the storyboard with synchronized sound, camera movements and transitions between shots

As an animatic or story reel is made after the soundtrack is created, but before full animation begins, it allows you the opportunity to edit the production. Editing the film at the animatic stage prevents unnecessary animation of scenes that would only be edited out of the film, this saves production costs and time.