Export formats

Boords offers several export formats to help you share storyboards and scripts with clients, collaborate with production teams, and integrate with your existing workflows.

See also: Exports, an overview of every export and what each one is for.

Accessing exports

Click Export in the storyboard header to open the export options. On a narrow window it shows as a download arrow only.

PDF

PDF is the most popular export format for client presentations and internal reviews. Boords generates professional, print-ready PDFs with customisable covers, layouts, and styling options.

Key features include:

• Custom covers. Build a front cover from your logo, upload your own, or leave it out, and add a back cover.
• Eight layouts. Six frame grid, Eight frame grid, Four frame grid, Three up, Two up, Frame list, Full page and Two Columns. The layouts on offer depend on your paper and frame shape.
• Paper. Pages are A4 landscape by default. Tick Widescreen for a wider page. Frame list always prints on A4 portrait.
• Font options. Select fonts with support for multiple character sets.
• Image sizing. Set how large frame images appear, from 40 to 100%.

On the Free plan, every page carries a "Boords.com • Free Version" watermark. During a trial, PDFs are watermarked previews with lower-resolution images.

To download every storyboard in a project, choose Download all as PDF from the project's three-dot menu. You get each storyboard's latest version as a PDF, in one ZIP file. This is available on paid plans and during a trial.

For full details on PDF export options, see PDF exports.

Word document

Export your storyboard script as a Word document (.docx) for easy editing and sharing with writers, directors, or clients who prefer working in Microsoft Word. Choose Script, then click Download .docx.

The Word export includes:

• The storyboard name, version and the date it was generated
• A table with one row per frame: the frame number, then one column for each frame field you have turned on, headed with your own field names
• One total word count under the title, if your storyboard shows a word count

Text formatting such as bold, italic, strikethrough, colour, highlights and links is kept. Date fields read like 3 Nov 2026, dropdown choices appear as shaded labels in their option colours, and checkboxes show as ☑ or ☐. The document has no images. The Label field is included only when your word count is set to count all fields.

This format is particularly useful when you need to share scripts with voiceover artists or get sign-off on dialogue from clients before moving into production. To send a full AV script as a two-column document, export it from the script editor instead (see Script exports).

The Word export is available on paid plans. On Free and during a trial, you'll see an upgrade prompt.

Spreadsheet

Export your storyboard as an Excel-compatible spreadsheet (.xlsx) that works with Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, and other spreadsheet applications. Choose Google Sheets, then click Download .xlsx.

The spreadsheet has one row per frame, with columns for the frame number, the frame image, each frame field you have turned on, the frame status, and comments. You can choose to include:

• Frame images. Embed thumbnail images in the spreadsheet. This is on by default.
• Comments. Include each frame's comments and replies. This is off by default.

Bold, italic, strikethrough and text colour are kept. Links are not. Date fields arrive as real dates, such as 3 Nov 2026, that you can sort. Dropdown choices keep their option colours, and checkboxes read TRUE or FALSE.

The spreadsheet format is ideal for production planning, shot tracking, and sharing detailed breakdowns with your production team. Many studios use this format to create shooting schedules or track progress across departments. For ideas, see Google Sheets and Excel.

The spreadsheet export is available on paid plans. On Free and during a trial, you'll see an upgrade prompt.

Images

Download all your frame images as a ZIP archive. Each frame is exported as an individual image file and sent to your email address.

Because image exports can be large, Boords processes them in the background and emails you a download link when your ZIP file is ready. The link works for 24 hours. Files are named frame-0001.jpg and so on, or turn on Use 'Label' as filename to name them after your frame labels, making it easy to organise and reference images in other applications.

The ZIP also includes a text file with each frame's label and notes, and your soundtrack, if your storyboard has one. SVG frames are not included.

This export is useful when you need to:

• Import frames into editing software
• Share individual shots with specific team members
• Archive storyboard assets

The image export is available on paid plans. It isn't available on Free or during a trial.

Animatic

Export your storyboard as an MP4 video. Each frame plays for its duration on your timeline, with your storyboard's soundtrack underneath. Frames without a duration play for 2 seconds, and frames cut straight to the next one.

To export, choose Animatic (or click the download button in the player), then click Start a new render. The animatic renders in the background, and a Download button appears in the same panel when it's ready. You can cancel a render while it runs, or start a new one after you make changes.

An animatic can have up to 500 frames and run for up to 13 minutes.

This format is perfect for presenting timing and pacing to clients, or for sharing early-stage previews with your production team.

The animatic export is available on paid plans. During a trial, animatics are watermarked. It isn't available on Free.

After Effects

Choose After Effects to take your timed frames and soundtrack into an After Effects composition. You do not need to install a plugin. For what the composition includes, see After Effects.

1. Click Download AE project. Boords prepares a ZIP in the background and emails you a download link when it is ready. The link works for 24 hours.
2. Download and unzip it. Keep the script, images, and other files together in one folder.
3. Open After Effects. Choose File → New → New Project first if you want a separate project.
4. Choose File → Scripts → Run Script File and select Open in After Effects.jsx from the unzipped folder.
5. Choose File → Save to save the project. The script creates the composition but does not save it for you.

The composition uses your storyboard's aspect ratio, frame timings, and soundtrack, if you have one. Frame markers show the frame numbers and labels. Full frame notes are stored in layer comments and in a hidden Boords notes guide layer, which you can show while working without including it in renders.

Keep the unzipped assets in place after importing: the After Effects project links to those files.

The After Effects export is available on paid plans. It isn't available on Free or during a trial.

Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve

Choose Premiere / Resolve to take your timed frames, soundtrack and frame notes into Adobe Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve as an editable timeline. You do not need to install a plugin. For more on each editor, see Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

Click Download XML timeline. Boords prepares a ZIP in the background and emails you a download link when it is ready. The link works for 24 hours. Download and unzip it, and keep the files together in one folder.

The ZIP contains an .xml timeline, every frame image sized to the timeline, your soundtrack if you have one, a text file of your frame notes, and a README.txt with these steps. Each file name ends with a short code unique to that download, so your editor never links a file from an earlier download by mistake.

Import into Premiere Pro

1. Choose File → Import and select the .xml file from the unzipped folder.
2. If the Link Media window opens, click Locate and select any one image in the unzipped folder. The rest link automatically.
3. Open the new sequence.

Import into DaVinci Resolve

1. Create a new, empty project.
2. If you use the Mac App Store version of Resolve, add the folder before you import. On the Media page, right-click in Media Storage, choose Add New Location and select the unzipped folder.
3. Choose File → Import → Timeline and select the .xml file.
4. Leave Automatically import source clips into media pool turned on.
5. When Resolve asks whether to search another folder, click Yes and choose the unzipped folder itself.

If the numbered images arrive as one image sequence instead of separate stills, set the Media Storage frame display mode to Individual on the Media page and add the images to the Media Pool. Then import the timeline again with Automatically import source clips into media pool turned off.

What you get

The timeline runs at 25fps and starts at 01:00:00:00. It matches your storyboard's aspect ratio, for example 1920×1080 for 16:9 or 1080×1920 for 9:16. The supported ratios are 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5, 4:3, 1.85:1 and 2.4:1. Other ratios export at 1920×1080.

Each frame is a still clip at its Boords timing. Frames without a duration last 2 seconds. In Premiere Pro, each clip is named with its frame number and label. Resolve names clips after the image files. In both, a marker on each frame holds its label and notes, and the soundtrack sits underneath. If the soundtrack runs longer than the frames, the last frame holds until it ends.

Limitations

• Frames shorter than one video frame at 25fps are left out of the timeline.
• Frames whose image couldn't be added appear as grey Missing frame clips.
• SVG frames aren't exported as images, so they appear as grey Missing frame clips.
• In Resolve, a stereo soundtrack arrives as two mono tracks, both panned to the centre. Pan the first track left and the second right to hear it in stereo.
• The timeline links to the unzipped files, so keep them in place after importing.

The Premiere / Resolve export is available on paid plans. It isn't available on Free or during a trial.

Slides (PowerPoint)

Choose Slides to export your storyboard as a widescreen slide deck. There are two formats:

• PowerPoint downloads an editable .pptx deck for PowerPoint, Keynote and Google Slides. Frame text becomes real text boxes, keeping bold, italic, strikethrough, colour, links and lists, and images are embedded at full resolution. Date fields read like 3 Nov 2026, dropdown choices appear as coloured pills, and checkboxes as a ticked or empty box beside the field name.
• Images downloads a ZIP with one PNG per slide, 3840 pixels wide, ready to drop into any presentation tool.

Pick a layout, then set the appearance and footer, and click Export PowerPoint or Export images. When the export is ready, click the download button in the window that appears (Download PowerPoint for a deck). For step-by-step import instructions, see how to use Boords with Google Slides.

Slides don't include covers, speaker notes or the Frame list layout. Fonts aren't embedded in the deck, so a computer without your export font shows a similar one instead.

PowerPoint export is available on paid plans. On Free and during a trial, Slides exports watermarked images instead.

This format is useful when you need to incorporate your storyboard into a larger presentation, such as a client pitch deck or creative brief.

Script exports

Scripts have their own Export menu in the script header, with four formats: PDF (a typeset document with searchable text, working links, and AV columns intact, in A4 or US Letter with an optional statistics page), Word (.docx), Markdown (.md), and plain text (.txt). Files are named after the script and version. The Word export keeps AV scripts as two-column tables.

PDF is available on every plan, with a watermark on Free. Word, Markdown and plain text are available on paid plans and during a trial.

For full details, see Versions and exports.

Export formats at a glance

Storyboards

Scripts

See Versions and exports for script export details and plan availability.