STENCIL.ONE

Storyboarding Software For Filmmakers

Storyboarding your film and video projects allows you to visualize them and see them on-screen before you push your project into the expensive production phase. 


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Filmmakers need storyboarding software that helps them visualize their projects as well as connects their storyboard images to shot lists and coverage plans.
Stencil.one

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Simply The Best Storyboard Software Out There

Properly storyboarding a film, series, documentary, music video or commercial allows you to solve problems before they happen.

Stencil.one was intentionally designed to keep your images close to your story. Your story (script) and storyboard shouldn’t exists in two different programs. Within Stencil, all of these tools, and more, exist within one powerful film production management suite. 

** No credit card required.

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Powerful Storyboarding Software

Simply put, Stencil was designed to be the best storyboarding software on the market. Stencil replaces all other storyboarding tools on the market by being everything filmmakers need.

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Easy to Visualize Shot By Shot Breakdown

Gain a top level understanding of your film or video project’s visuals by looking at your entire project on a scene-by-scene basis.
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Toggle Between Sketches and AI

Stencil allows you to toggle between storyboard reference images, sketches, pre-production location stills, AI and production stills.

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AI Generated Storyboard Images

Within Stencil you can generate AI images, in a variety of styles, to use as your storyboard images.

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Storyboard Connected to Your Screenplay

Filmmakers require that their storyboards are connected to their stories. For this reason, each time you add a new scene within Stencil a corresponding storyboard is created.

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View Each Individual Scene's Shots

Not only can you view your storyboard shots scene-by-scene, but you can also view the individual shots within each scene.

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Save Storyboard Images For Re-Use

All of your uploaded storyboard images can be added to your media library for re-use in other scenes or other projects.

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Mark Storyboard Items as Complete

On production days you can mark a storyboard shot as active, complete or incomplete. 

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All-In-One Film Production Software

Stencil comes will all of the tools you need to manage your film production studio. We help you manage storytelling, budgeting, casting, location scouting, storyboarding and so much more!


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Film Storyboard Tool With AI Image Generation

We help you create your storyboard images through the use of our built-in AI image generation tools

Within Stencil, you can upload your own storyboard images. These could be rough sketches or detailed drawing from a storyboard artists. However, we also allow you to create your storyboard images through the use of AI.

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Plot Visualization & Plot Boards

Visualize your entire story using our plot visualization features

Visualizing how your scenes fit together into a cohesive and well paced film or documentary is a challenge. However, our plot visualization tools make seeing your story from a top level perspective a breeze.

Storyboarding For Writing & Storyboarding For Planning

Storyboard images are associated with scenes. This allows you to see how your project is coming together in real time. 

While working within Stencil, you’ll be able to see your storyboard images above your screenwriting tools as you write, but you’ll also be able to see your storyboard images on your plot visualization page where you can map out, at a top level, your entire story’s structure.

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Visualize Your Story BEFORE You Press Record

Our storyboarding software was designed to help you take the images you have in your mind and put them on screen.

One of the hardest parts about filmmaking is taking the images that you have in your imagination and getting those images up on screen. This is no easy task. Scribble helps you streamline this process through the use of our storyboarding software.

Image Planning Like Never Before

Within Stencil you’ll constantly find yourself exceeding your expectations in terms of your image planning capabilities.

Films, documentaries, music videos and commercials need to be meticulously planned out. Images can’t be thrown together haphazardly. Stencil helps you take a deliberate and well thought out approach to crafting your sequences of images.

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A Small Price to Pay to Create Better Films

Our film production management software was designed by filmmakers for filmmakers. All of the tools built into the software are designed to help you create higher quality films. Subscribing to Stencil is an investment in your film production studio, not an expense.

Sterling, Stencil Developer

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FAQ

Still have a few last questions before taking stencil for a test drive?

We’ve tried to make Stencil as easy to use and user-friendly as possible. However, we’ve included an FAQ to the right to answer the most common questions we receive.

What's the cost?

A full featured version of Stencil is free to try for 7 days (without a credit card). After 7 days, if you want to keep using the software, the cost is as low as $99 / month.

Can I suggest a new feature?

Yes please! We want to make Stencil as powerful of a film production aid as possible. if you have ideas you can simply click on “suggestion box” in the left sidebar.

Are there contracts?

No. There are no contracts. Our pro members pay as a little as $99 / month. If you ever want to cancel you can do so in one click on your “account settings” page.

Can I use it for casting crew and actors?

Yes. Each of our paid plans come with our casting tool built in. Simply look for the plan that has the usage limits that you require. 

Do you offer offline access?

No we don’t offer offline access. Currently you must have an internet connection to connect to Stencil. We are primarily a web application since most production work is best done collaboratively and live.

Who owns the content I create?

You do. We claim no rights whatsoever to the work you create within Stencil.

Can I whitelable Stencil?

Yes. All of our plans come with the ability to embed Stencil on your own film studio’s website. You can also change the colors to match your film studio’s brand. your entire team / castings etc can all be managed from your own domain. 

I need help putting Stencil on my studio website.

We’d be happy to help. Simply click on “contact us” in the sidebar and let us know what you need. There is no cost for this service.

I have a question

If you have a question that’s not covered on our website, simply reach out to us by clicking on “contact us” in the left sidebar.

Is your product for indie filmmakers or studios?

We built Stencil to handle our own studio needs. Therefore, it’s primarily built to handle the needs of many different types of production studios working on various project types (i.e. films, documentaries, commercials, music videos etc.). However, solo filmmakers also use our software to manage smaller productions.

How can I learn more about your company?

Visit our “contact us” page in the sidebar to learn more about us.

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Getting Started (Free Videos)

Want to learn how to use Stencil quickly? We have a comprehensive video tutorial series that will have you proficient using our software in no time.

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Want to watch a full length demo of how to use our film production software? In this tutorial we'll show you how each feature within Stencil works.

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A software solution designed to help filmmakers complete compelling stories.

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