[Jurrinator]

Thanks for the idea of rolling tape, but I understand that FCP 5 can have NTSC stills (like JPEG) and not need to render. I found these articles below about how the animation guys at DreamWorks uses ToonShooter to input their storyboards into the editor. Does something like this exist for the general public and works with FCP 5? Thanks!!

“ToonShooter has a camera precariously mounted a couple of feet above a drawing board. Artists first sketch on paper, and then slide the paper through ToonShooter, where the image is digitized and animated on the fly. From that point, the artists can easily work with those same images on their workstations and quickly integrate those images into existing scenes, saving
many animators many hours of work.”

https://os.newsforge.com/print.pl?sid=02/04/24/1643238

“ToonShooter allows animators to convert traditional hand-drawn artwork into a digital format that can be easily played back and manipulated during production.”

https://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2002/020603c.html