# What is an animatic and what are the first steps to time one from storyboard panels with scratch audio?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T13:10:22.714Z
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An animatic is storyboard panels cut in sequence with a scratch soundtrack to test timing and sync; practice is to order and time panels, play, and iterate while changes are cheap. Storyboard Pro starts every panel at one second (so a new board is a basic animatic), edits durations as H:MM:SS:FF and ripples later panels by default; a Blender tutorial times slides by frame count at 25 fps and later swaps in renders of the same length.

An animatic is storyboard panels cut in sequence with a scratch soundtrack to test timing and sync; practice is to order and time panels, play, and iterate while changes are cheap. Storyboard Pro starts every panel at one second (so a new board is a basic animatic), edits durations as H:MM:SS:FF and ripples later panels by default; a Blender tutorial times slides by frame count at 25 fps and later swaps in renders of the same length.

Curator qualifications: Pages and documents read 2026-10-22; no animatic built.

Limitations: Pages and documents read 2026-10-22; no animatic built.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://archive.blender.org/wiki/2015/index.php/Doc:2.4/Tutorials/Sequencer/Animatics/",
      "note": "IIT Bombay D'source animatic course, Introduction (Wayback id_ 2023-09-28); Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 22 help: Animatic (live); Blender 2.4 wiki archive: Sequencer Animatics tutorial"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230928185449id_/https://www.dsource.in/course/storyboard-and-animatic-animation/animatic-animation/introduction",
      "note": "IIT Bombay D'source animatic course, Introduction (Wayback id_ 2023-09-28); Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 22 help: Animatic (live); Blender 2.4 wiki archive: Sequencer Animatics tutorial"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20241005181207id_/https://www.dsource.in/course/storyboard-and-animatic-animation/animatic-animation/basic-steps-involved",
      "note": "IIT Bombay D'source animatic course, Introduction (Wayback id_ 2023-09-28); Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 22 help: Animatic (live); Blender 2.4 wiki archive: Sequencer Animatics tutorial"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://docs.toonboom.com/help/storyboard-pro-22/storyboard/getting-started/animatic.html",
      "note": "IIT Bombay D'source animatic course, Introduction (Wayback id_ 2023-09-28); Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 22 help: Animatic (live); Blender 2.4 wiki archive: Sequencer Animatics tutorial"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] An animatic is storyboard panels cut in sequence with a scratch soundtrack to test timing and sync; practice is to order and time panels, play, and iterate while changes are cheap. Storyboard Pro starts every panel at one second (so a new board is a basic animatic), edits durations as H:MM:SS:FF and ripples later panels by default; a Blender tutorial times slides by frame count at 25 fps and later swaps in renders of the same length. · locator: IIT Bombay D'source animatic course, Introduction (Wayback id_ 2023-09-28); Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 22 help: Animatic (live); Blender 2.4 wiki archive: Sequencer Animatics tutorial · source: https://archive.blender.org/wiki/2015/index.php/Doc:2.4/Tutorials/Sequencer/Animatics/

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