Convert Board to Level Sequence

Converting your Board Sequence to a Level Sequence has several advantages:

  • working with Level Sequence will allow your teammates to enjoy the full power of Level Sequences;

  • when Rendering the storyboard as an animatic, you will be able to render several videos for each Shot Sequence, and not a single movie file;

  • you still keep a link to the original Shot Sequences.

Basically, it works as follow:

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The hierarchy of the Board Sequence (with its Shot Sequences and potential Board Sequences) is converted into a hierarchy of Level Sequences. For a Level Sequence corresponding to a Shot Sequence, a Subsequence Track is automatically created and send you to the original Shot Sequence.

To convert a Board Sequence:

  1. Open the Content Browser and go to the directory where the Board Sequence is created.

  2. Make a right click on the Board Sequence and choose “Scripted Asset Actions” ▸ “Convert to Level Sequence”.

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  1. At the root of the Board Sequence and its private folder, you will see now a LevelSequence with another private folder:

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  1. Open the Level Sequence and enjoy the result.

This feature keeps anything, from the sound to the 3d characted, included the notes.

Additionally, it enables the possibility to render the animatic shot by shot with several videos and an XML for film editors.