Updates

What’s new in MagicStoryboard

New features, improvements, and the occasional bug fix. Updates are free for everyone with a MagicStoryboard licence.

Version 1.0.0

7 August 2026Latest

The first release - storyboard panels drawn straight in the DaVinci Resolve viewer, on a timeline you can play back.

Drawing

  • Four pens. Pencil with real graphite texture and pressure, brush, a highlighter that multiplies so lines show through, and a proper eraser.
  • Tablet pressure throughout, with a smoothing dial that takes the wobble out on release.
  • 31 shapes including full camera-move notation: pan, tilt, push in, pull out, zoom, dolly, pedestal, crane, whip pan, handheld, roll, follow, hold. Plus arrows, primitives, speech bubbles, trees and figures.
  • Four shape slots on the toolbar, loadable from a picker and fired with Shift / Ctrl / Alt / Shift+Alt.
  • Fill as a one-click toggle, always on for freehand custom shapes.
  • Three inks per pen. The colour wheel opens by clicking the ink you're on.

Layers & animation

  • Four layers, each with visibility, opacity and its own transform.
  • Move, scale and rotate whole layers, with a rotation pivot that stays put when you keep drawing.
  • Anims. Drag a ghost to say where a layer flies in from, with easing, zoom and spin. Both start and end boxes are draggable, and one button swaps them.
  • Onion skin for animating between panels.
  • Flip horizontal and vertical per layer.

The card

  • Paper stocks with real pulp, tooth and fibre: cartridge, cold press, office laser, tracing, laid.
  • Canvas ratio and size presets, borders, thirds/grid guides, action-safe frame.
  • Full overlay mode. Turn the background off and only your ink renders over the footage.

Text & reuse

  • Multiline textboxes with real system fonts, per-textbox typeface, word wrap and a draggable box. MSDF rendering keeps text crisp at any resolution.
  • Preset library on disk, filed by project. Save a character once, drop him into any board.
  • Copy and paste layers via the system clipboard - crosses projects, machines and restarts.
  • Export and import .sbl files to share or archive.

Companion panel

  • A floating window on the Colour page. Step between panels, add and duplicate them, rename the whole board in one click, and export every panel as PNG or JPEG.

Got an idea or a bug to report?

Email support@magic-storyboard.com.