The plan, where the work happens
A storyboard is only useful in the room it is needed in. These put it there: on an editor's timeline, and on the tethering screen while the camera is still up.
Any editing suite
The board, as a cut. Nothing to install.
Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, or anything that reads OpenTimelineIO.
- 01Open a production and press Export.
- 02Pick Animatic. You get one file: every still, and a timeline pointing at them.
- 03Import it. Each shot is a clip, in order, held for the length you planned, with the scene heading and the shot's own line as markers.
Any photo software
The shot, written into the file. No plug-in, no lock-in.
Lightroom, Capture One, Bridge, Photo Mechanic, or anything else that reads XMP, which is all of them.
- 01Shoot with the Capture One helper running, or point its Label a folder option at a folder you already shot.
- 02It writes the production, the scene and the shot into each file: embedded in JPEGs, and as a sidecar beside raw files, which is where each of them is read from.
- 03Import anywhere. The structure arrives as a keyword tree: Frameboard, then the production, then the scene, then the shot.
Capture One
The shot list drives the shoot, and every frame goes back on the board.
Python 3, which macOS already has. The capture naming and the albums are macOS only, because Capture One's automation is AppleScript; sending frames back and labelling files work on Windows too.
- 01Download, unzip, and double click the launcher for your machine.
- 02It asks for a code. Press Connect a program in your account and type the eight characters it shows you.
- 03Pick your production, press 1, and drag your Capture folder in. Every frame lands on its shot and every file is labelled with it. Press Enter for the next shot.
Lightroom Classic
The production as a collection set, one collection per shot.
Lightroom Classic. The cloud version has no plug-in system, so there is nothing to install there.
- 01Download, unzip, and add the .lrplugin folder in Lightroom's Plug-in Manager.
- 02Library, Plug-in Extras, Connect to Frameboard, and type a code from Connect a program.
- 03Build collections from a production. Your photos are filed into their shots by file name, and Send selected photos puts picks back on the board.
DaVinci Resolve
The storyboard, in your project, as a timeline.
Resolve, and Python 3 on the machine, which Resolve uses to run any script. It lives in Resolve's own Workspace, Scripts menu.
- 01Download, unzip, and double click the installer once. It puts Frameboard in Resolve's Scripts menu.
- 02In Resolve: Workspace, Scripts, Frameboard. It asks for a code the first time. Press Connect a program in your account and type the eight characters it shows you.
- 03Pick your production and press Build. The timeline appears in its own bin. Nothing already in the project is touched.
Premiere Pro
The shot list beside the timeline, and the animatic in one click.
Premiere Pro 2026 or later, and Adobe's UXP Developer Tool from Creative Cloud to load the panel. We are working on getting it onto Adobe Exchange so that step goes away.
- 01Download, unzip, and add the folder in the UXP Developer Tool.
- 02Open the panel under Window, Extensions, and type a code from Connect a program.
- 03Pick a production. The shot list appears, and Import the animatic builds the sequence.
The code
Every one of these asks for eight characters the first time you run it. You get them from Account, Connect a program. Type them in and the program remembers, on that machine, for good.
The code lasts ten minutes and works once. Behind it, the program is given its own key, which you never see and never have to keep anywhere. Disconnecting a program in your account stops it immediately and affects nothing else.
Choose Full when the program should send captures back onto their shots, and Read only when it should just pull the plan. Neither can delete a production or connect anything new.
Something missing
The API these are built on is the same one you can use. Productions, scenes, shots, takes and frames are readable with a token, and captures can be posted back. Ask us if you are building something and want the shape of it written down properly.