Board queries: planning questions, answered from vendor pages
Each query starts from a planning problem, a shot that needs a different angle, a character that keeps changing, a board a client wants as a PDF, and lists the tools whose pages speak to it. As of 2026-09-25.
Answers list tools and their own words, in alphabetical order. A tool whose pages are silent is counted, not guessed at.
Each query links to the field it draws on.
1Pages in this sheet
- Are there presets for camera movement — LTX Studio has Camera Motion Presets that apply professional camera movements to a shot.
- Can a frame be fixed by editing its description — Yes, on four board tools.
- Can a human artist draw a frame the AI got wrong — StoryboardHero offers this: images can be regenerated, or its own team of storyboard sketch artists can draw them when needed.
- Can a moment inside a shot be redone — LTX Studio's Retake redirects a specific moment within a shot without regenerating the entire scene.
- Can a storyboard become a pitch deck — Storyboarder.ai turns a storyboard into a pitch deck in one click, with a choice of designs, alongside PDF and MP4 animatic exports.
- Can a storyboard frame be reframed without redrawing it — Storyboarder.ai's 3D camera tool does this from a single storyboard image: the viewpoint is orbited, panned, tilted and zoomed until the angle works.
- Can a storyboard frame become a video clip — Yes, on these three: Storyboarder.ai, M Studio and ImagineArt.
- Can any image be used as a style or content reference — OiiOii's Universal Reference accepts any image as a style or content guide for consistent results.
- Can camera angles be read from my script — Two tools say they read them: Drawstory and Frameo. Drawstory's assistant director identifies shots, characters, locations and camera angles in the script.
- Can first and last frames from the board drive the video — Yes, on these two: OiiOii and TrendShort. OiiOii generates video with first-frame and last-frame image references for precise motion.
- Can I bring my own sketches onto the board — Yes, on these two: ScreenWeaver and TrendShort. ScreenWeaver imports references, sketches or renders at any time and treats generated frames as a starting point.
- Can I change only part of a storyboard frame — Yes, on these three: Boords, Toonkit and Frameo.
- Can I change the angle on a frame already approved — Boords says yes: the angle on an approved frame is switched while the shot, the style and the character context stay intact.
- Can I direct the camera in plain words — Yes, on these three: HeyGen, Story.com and Toonkit.
- Can I drop a character into a frame with @ — Yes, on these three: Boords, Toonkit and ImagineArt.
- Can I export the storyboard as a PDF — Yes, on these three: Frameo, StoryboardHero and Boords.
- Can I fix a shot by chatting with the tool — DirectStudio says so: click any shot to tweak it, or tell the agent in the chat what to change next. HeyGen approves or rewrites each beat of its blueprint in the editor.
- Can I get a shot list along with the storyboard — Yes, from the tools that pair panels with lists.
- Can I make an animatic from the storyboard — Yes, on these two: Boords and Frameo. Boords generates video animatics with audio to test pacing and exports them as MP4.
- Can I set the lens and depth of field for a shot — ImagineArt names both.
- Can locations and props stay consistent, not only faces — These three name places and objects alongside characters: LTX Studio, Topview Drama Studio and Storyboarder.ai.
- Can one change update the related panels — OiiOii's linked editing does this: changing one element keeps the storyboard panels in sync and updates related scenes automatically.
- Can one shot become several connected frames — ImagineArt's Scene Jump does this: one shot is turned into four connected frames, a setup, an escalation and a payoff, generated together.
- Can pose and expression be set shot by shot — MagicLight's Nano Storyboard sets expression, body pose from fifty options and camera angle for each shot before the video renders.
- Can the board be approved before any video is made — Yes, on two pages. MagicLight has every scene reviewed in a Storyboard editor before the video renders.
- Can the board go into animation without exporting it — Toonkit says so: its AI storyboard goes into AI animation with no export to separate software and no import back.
- Can the storyboard come with previs clips — M Studio says so: storyboard pictures, blocking references and previs video clips for every scene.
- How do I keep the same character in every panel — Each of these names its method: HeyGen, Higgsfield and M Studio.
- Is an AI storyboard always a set of drawings — No. HeyGen's board is a written scene-by-scene plan with a shot list, approved before anything renders.
- Is the cast set up before the panels are drawn — On these four, the cast comes first: Drawstory, Elser AI, MagicLight and TrendShort. Drawstory creates the characters a script describes, to be chosen and customised.
- What does each shot on an AI storyboard record — Four pages list more than a picture. ScreenWeaver labels every shot with its framing and move.
- What formats does an AI storyboard export in — Few pages name one. OiiOii exports character sheets and scene boards as images and finished videos as MP4; Katalist exports in the formats each channel needs.
2The other sheets
3From board to moving shots
Between the script and the video in “Board queries”, SceneMixer hands back the following, in its own words:
Its character becomes the tone of the episode’s own score, which is planned from the episode’s storyboard — usually one to three pieces — and mixed under the voices.
SceneMixer, Remake: How Spoken Lines and Music Are Read From the Clip, and What Ends Up in Your Episode — “Is the source music reused?” (read 2026-10-13)
The shot seconds in the storyboard add up to the segment length, so editing them changes it.
SceneMixer, Fixing One Shot Without Redoing Everything — “Can I change the duration of a segment?” (read 2026-10-13)