# Frameboard for Premiere Pro

A panel that puts the shot list beside the timeline and imports the storyboard
as a sequence.

## What you need

Premiere Pro 2026 or later. This is a UXP panel, not a CEP extension: Adobe
made UXP a standard release in Premiere 2026 and supports CEP for about a year
past that, so anything built on CEP now is already on a countdown.

## Installing it

While the panel is unsigned, it loads through Adobe's own developer tool.

1. Install the **UXP Developer Tool** from Creative Cloud.
2. Open it, choose **Add Plugin**, and pick the `manifest.json` in this folder.
3. Press **Load**. The panel appears under **Window > Extensions > Frameboard**.

## Using it

1. In Frameboard, go to **Account > Connected programs** and make a token. A
   read token is enough; the panel never writes to your production.
2. Paste it into the panel and press **Connect**. It is remembered on this
   machine until you clear it.
3. Pick a production. The shot list appears, grouped by scene.
4. **Import the animatic** asks where to keep the frames, downloads them, and
   hands Premiere a timeline of every shot in shooting order, each held for the
   length it was planned at.

## What it does not do

It does not write anything back to Frameboard, and it does not touch what is
already in your project. An import adds media and one sequence.

## If the import is refused

The frames and `animatic.fcpxml` are already saved in the folder you chose.
**File > Import**, pick the `.fcpxml`, and you get the same sequence by hand.
The panel says so when it happens rather than leaving you with an error and no
next step.

## Where the timeline comes from

Frameboard builds it, and the panel imports it. The rules for what the cut is
(the frame rate, how long an untimed shot runs, what a clip is called) live in
one place and are shared with the app's own Export menu and the DaVinci Resolve
script, so the same board cannot come out three different ways depending on
which door you came through.