Exporting Your Movie

When your animation is done and ready to share with your audience, you are ready to export. You have the following export choices:

Macromedia^®Flash movie
QuickTime^® movie
AVI
DV Stream
Image Sequence

To export to your movie:

1. Select File > Export Movie. The Export dialog box opens.

2. From the Export Format menu, select the type of file you want to export. You have the following choices:

Flash Movie: Toon Boom Studio exports version 6 SWF movies. You can choose to export a compressed or uncompressed file.
QuickTime Movie
AVI
DV Stream
Image Sequence

3. To control the export settings, select Custom from the Settings menu. When you go on to the next step of the export process, a dialog box opens with the export options for the Export Format you selected.

4. Select the part of the movie that you want to export from the Export Type panel. You have the following choices:

Full Movie: exports all the scenes in the current animation set. The order the scenes appear in is displayed in the Scene Manager window.
Timeline Current Scene: exports the contents of the scene or template currently open in Toon Boom Studio.
Exposure Sheet Scene: exports the contents of the scene or template from the Exposure Sheet. This option does not include any of the effects you created in the Sceneplanning view windows.

5. In the Export Range panel, select the content you want to export.

All: exports the entire scene or movie. If you selected Full Movie in the Export Type panel, All is selected by default and you cannot change it.
Frames from: enter the selection of frames you want to export.
Free Playback Range: It exports the playback range you set up in the Timeline window. If there is no playback range, the option is not available.
Selection: This option is available when you select to export the Exposure Sheet scene. It exports the frames you have selected in the Exposure Sheet window.

6. To view the final files after the compilation is complete, select the Launch Player After Export checkbox.

Your movie appears automatically in the Playback window when the export has finished.

7. Click OK to move on to the next step of the export process.

If you have not selected to modify your export options, a progress bar appears to show you the progress of the export.
If you selected to modify your export options, an export settings dialog box appears.