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1. Tina Hargaden

   | Principal Teacher at CI Liftoff | over 3 years ago
   I Use Storyboard That Every Day

   As a former classroom teacher of French and Spanish, English Language Arts, and Social Studies, my business now is creating resources for language teachers to tell stories and teach about culture, geography, history, and other content...in a language that may be quite new to the students. So, with that kind of work, you can bet I am always on the lookout for the best tools to visually scaffold the information so it is easier to understand through pictures, icons, and other design elements. I use Storyboard That almost every single day in my work on these materials. Since the resources are for (mostly) children and teens, I prefer a comic or cartoon-y style. Storyboard That is my go-to "character generator." I use it to make and pose characters into scenes and then I combine these groups of characters with Canva, to create PNGs that I then make into presentations for giving mini-lessons in class, texts for kids to read in class, etc. For me, Canva AND Storyboard That together are the perfect solution, and the price is right, for my purposes, as Pixton (which integrates directly with Canva) charges about $500 a year for the rights to replicate your work using their library for commercial purposes, whereas Storyboard That is only $12 or so a month, which includes that permission level for your original compositions. Pixton without that level of permission is about $40 a month, so you would need to think about what the integration of the two would be worth for you in terms of efficiency or the available images and effects in Pixton. For $144 a year, Storyboard That is an excellent option for me. And for free, you can create three active storyboards at a time, so you could potentially use it and never pay a dime.

   🏁 Competitors: Pixton

   👍 Pros:    Allows commercial use of your designs using their elements|Has a free option that allows you to make three active storyboards|Affordable price|Good range of racially-diverse characters

   👎 Cons:    Interface needs improvement|The dragging and clicking is often cumbersome for me.|No canva integration (pixton integrates with canva directly but costs substantially more)

File Approved mentions (12)

• Efficient workflows for getting feedback by company clients?

  For internal review, we use Frame.io, but for external review, feedback, and approval, we use https://fileapproved.com. Source: about 1 year ago

• Software for sending files/media to clients for revisions/approvals?

  I don't know of any self-hosted solutions, but http://fileapproved.com is only $4 a month, so that's about as inexpensive as it gets probably. Source: over 1 year ago

• How do you get feedback while you're still editing your videos?

  We use Frame.io for internal review (for people in our organization) and we use fileapproved.com for external review, since reviewers don't need to put in an email or anything that you don't specify. Source: over 1 year ago

• What are the tools you can't live without?

  Fileapproved.com - Sending anyone files to approve or leave feedback on, and being able to specify what info you need from them to be able to approve (not needing their email if you don't want/need it). And it's only $4 a month. Source: over 1 year ago

• Client Delivery Workflow

  We use Frame.io to send files internally for review and feedback and use fileapproved.com to send files to clients or people who need to review and leave feedback externally. Source: over 1 year ago

Storyboard That mentions (1)

• I want to learn to letter comics. Where do I start?

  If you're feeling overwhelmed, you can also use free comic book making software like storyboardthat.com. Source: almost 2 years ago