Board the cuts, not the frames
A panel should mark a change — a new angle, a new beat, a new idea. Boarding every second of a moving shot produces forty panels nobody looks at and hides the three decisions that matter.
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Pick a panel count, a frame ratio and the fields your crew actually reads, then print it or download the sheet. Blank boards, no account, no watermark.
Describe the film and let an assistant board it. Panels come back with the frame described, the shot size, the action, the VO line and a timing — a real first pass you can redraw over, rather than an empty grid.
Print goes straight to PDF from the browser dialog — choose “Save as PDF” as the destination. The downloaded file is a single self-contained page you can open and print later, or drop into Docs or Slides.
Preview · A4
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NOTEWorth knowing
A panel should mark a change — a new angle, a new beat, a new idea. Boarding every second of a moving shot produces forty panels nobody looks at and hides the three decisions that matter.
Boarding a vertical cut in 16:9 and cropping later is how heads get chopped and captions land on faces. If the film ships to Reels or TikTok, board it 9:16 from the start.
Put a duration under each panel and the total tells you whether the script fits the runtime before anyone books a crew. It is the cheapest edit you will ever make.
No key and no account with us. You describe the film, the tool builds a prompt carrying the exact data shape it expects, and you paste that into whichever assistant you already use. It replies with JSON, you paste that back, and the board fills in. Nothing is sent to our servers, and it works with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini equally well.
ENDWhen planning is done
The tools handle the arithmetic. Directing, animating and cutting the thing is the part we are actually for.