An OFX Plugin by MrAlexTech
MagicStoryboard
Plan Your Shoot In Resolve
DaVinci Resolve is for post production, right? Now it's for PRE production too. Draw storyboard panels straight in the viewer - one clip is one panel, and the whole board is a timeline you can play back. Add your music, sound effects and voice over right where they'll live. Bosh!
One-time purchase. No subscription. Free 7-day trial.
The Big Idea
Your timeline is your storyboard
This makes total sense, right?! Panels are clips, the edit is the shot order, and the audio tracks are already exactly where they'll be in the finished film.
Drawn with MagicStoryboard's own pens - panels, camera notation and all. Real product screenshots landing soon.
One clip is one panel
Drop MagicStoryboard on an adjustment clip, sketch the shot, move to the next. Your panel order is your clip order - re-cutting the board is just re-cutting the timeline.
Sound, on the board
Your music, sound effects and voice over go straight on the timeline underneath the panels. Play the board back and feel the pacing before you've shot a frame.
Render it out
Export every panel as an individual PNG or JPEG from the companion panel - or render the whole board as a video, timed to your temp audio.
Collaborate in the cloud
Everything lives in the clip's grade, so the board travels with the project and syncs through Blackmagic Cloud. Share it, and collaborate on your storyboard.
Drawing
Professional pen tools, right in the viewer
Sketch the shot on a paper card without leaving Resolve. GPU-native, so it stays live at 4K while you draw.
Four Pens
Pencil with real graphite texture and pressure, brush, a highlighter that multiplies so lines show through, and a proper eraser.
Pressure & Smoothing
Tablet pressure throughout, with a smoothing dial that takes the wobble out of your line on release.
31 Shapes
Full camera-move notation - pan, tilt, push in, pull out, zoom, dolly, crane, whip pan and friends - plus arrows, primitives, speech bubbles, trees and figures.
Shape Slots
Four slots on the toolbar, loadable from a picker and fired with Shift / Ctrl / Alt / Shift+Alt. Your go-to shapes, one modifier away.
One-Click Fill
Fill as a simple toggle on any shape - and always on for freehand custom shapes.
Three Inks Per Pen
Three inks on every pen. The colour wheel opens by clicking the ink you're on - pick, draw, done.
Layers & Animation
Boards that move
Simple animation controls - enough to sell a camera move or a gag, never so much that you're animating instead of planning.
Four Layers
Each with its own visibility, opacity and transform. Rough underneath, clean line on top - like a real light table.
Layer Transforms
Move, scale, rotate and flip 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. Start and end boxes are both draggable - and one button swaps them.
Onion Skin
See the previous panel underneath while you draw the next one. Simple animation between panels, the classic way.
The Card
Paper that feels like paper
Five paper stocks with real pulp, tooth and fibre - drawn under your ink, not pasted behind it. Or switch the paper off entirely and draw straight over the footage.
Cartridge
The classic. Real pulp and tooth.
Cold Press
Heavy watercolour texture.
Office Laser
Bright, smooth, printer-white.
Tracing
Translucent - overlay's best friend.
Laid
Ribbed fine-art finish.
Ratios & sizes
Canvas ratio and size presets for whatever you're shooting - plus borders around the card.
Guides
Thirds and grid guides, and an action-safe frame so your notes stay out of the picture.
Full overlay mode
Turn the background off and only your ink renders - draw blocking notes straight over your footage or previz.
Under the hood
CUDA + OpenCL
GPU-native with a multithreaded CPU fallback. Stays live at 4K while you draw.
Vectors, not pixels
Only stroke vectors cross the bus - never pixels - so a dense board stays fast.
Travels with the project
Everything lives in the clip's grade, so it syncs through Blackmagic Cloud with nothing to export.
Text & Reuse
Draw it once, use it everywhere
Boards are full of repeats - same character, same location, same label. MagicStoryboard makes the second time instant.
Real Textboxes
Multiline text with real system fonts, a typeface per textbox, word wrap and a draggable box. Scene numbers, dialogue, direction - type it, don't draw it.
Crisp At Any Size
MSDF rendering means text stays sharp at any resolution - from the timeline thumbnail to a 4K render.
Preset Library
A library on disk, filed by project. Save a character once, drop him into any board - same face in every panel.
Copy & Paste Layers
Layers travel via the system clipboard - across projects, across machines, and across restarts.
.sbl Files
Export and import .sbl files to share boards with collaborators or archive them alongside the project.
Companion Panel
Drive the whole board from one little window
A floating window on the Colour page that treats your timeline like a storyboard. Step between panels, add and duplicate them, rename the whole board in one click - and when you're done, export every panel in one go.
- Step between panels - previous / next moves the playhead clip by clip.
- Add & duplicate panels - new adjustment clip, paper ready, without touching the Edit page.
- Rename the board - one click renames every panel in the sequence.
- Export the lot - every panel as PNG or JPEG, named and numbered. Or render the timeline as a video with your temp audio.
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How it works
Seriously, it's this easy
Install it
Download the installer, run it, done. MagicStoryboard shows up in Resolve automatically.
Drop it on a clip
Add an adjustment clip to your timeline and drop MagicStoryboard on it. That clip is now a panel - paper and all.
Draw the shot
Sketch straight in the viewer, add your camera notation, move to the next panel. Press play and watch your board.
Stuck? Press F5. Quick Help pops up right inside the plugin - every control explained, no manual required.
Pricing
One Price. No Subscription.
Early adopter price - one-time purchase
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- Draw straight in the Resolve viewer, live at 4K
- Four pens - pencil, brush, highlighter, eraser
- 31 shapes with full camera-move notation
- Five paper stocks with real pulp and tooth
- Four layers with transforms, Anims & onion skin
- Tablet pressure & stroke smoothing
- Real text with MSDF crispness at any size
- Preset library, clipboard & .sbl sharing
- Companion panel - export PNG / JPEG per panel
- Syncs through Blackmagic Cloud
- Free updates for life
- No subscription, ever
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