Selecting PitchBoards as your build target in Composer exposes an additional MetaBar Composer menu, allowing you to add a pre-composed MetaBar into the build flow using any of the theme's default MetaBar formats.
Perfect Pitch: a New Dawn.
The original storyboarding blockbuster for Keynote is reborn for a new era, with a completely redesigned core framework, expanded extras, and all-new styles and layouts for Keynote 14+.
Make Keynote an indispensable part of your production workflow with PitchBoards Neo: the easiest way to assemble great-looking, professional-grade pitches and story-board presentations.
Since the dawn of Keynote itself, PitchBoards has been the go-to solution for film and video artists in need of a professional-grade pitch platform for meetings, story-board presentations, or any presentation where your ideas need to take center stage. The new Neo Edition is a full-system reboot of the classic NXT architecture – with a completely modernized, modular core framework that brings nearly a decade's worth of improvements to the underlying theme structure – along with dozens of new layouts, extras, and platform optimizations for the new Composer Engine, including an all-new MetaBar Builder assistant.
What's New, at a Glance:
The PitchBoards themes have been completely remastered in the evolution to the new Neo Edition, integrating years of advances on the underlying system architecture to bring PitchBoards leaping forward for Keynote 14+.
Upgrading from a previous version?
Registered users of prior editions of the PitchBoards Themes can Upgrade to PitchBoards Neo for Keynote 14+ at a reduced cost: Sign In to Your Account to view personalized pricing & available discounts.
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Completely Re-Designed for Keynote 14+, with a modernized, modular core framework that brings nearly a decade's worth of improvements to the underlying theme structure.
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Dozens of new Layout styles join the mix, including a range of contemporary, conversational archetypes, expanded Multi-Columns, Summary Grids and more.
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Ground-up optimizations for the new Composer Engine – with full Placeholder and Sub-Element targeting baked in – making it easier than ever to run Dailies or Group-specific variations of your PitchBoards decks.
In the Box:
The PitchBoards Neo system includes an expanded framework of layout archetypes in the core Themes, extended by modular Template layouts and Jumpstarts to make authoring even easier.
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Core Theme Layouts
Storyboard layouts including the most popular aspect ratios for film and video, plus traditional editorial & image-driven standard layouts and an expanded library of practical layouts including Agendas, Quotes, Multi-Columns, Summary Grids and more.
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Template Extensions
Integrate Timelines, Smart Budget slides, or Device Mockups in a few short clicks, streamline the creation of a new Investor Pitch for your film, or print storyboarding blanks for 4:3, 16:9, Scope, and Multiscope ratios directly from Pages.
Highly-Functional Extras:
The core PitchBoards Neo themes are extended with purpose-built Add-On Templates designed to make authoring even easier.
Timeline & Budget Table Templates includes multiple styles of Milestone Timelines, Multi-Track Project Timelines, and "Smart" Film Production Budget Table slides ready to Copy & Paste into your PitchBoards Neo presentations.
Device Mockup Templates enable you to showcase your apps, concepts, and designs on a range of illustrated Apple-centric hardware, including narrative, metics, and highlight layouts featuring the Studio Display, iMac, MacBooks, iPads, iPhones and Apple Watches.
The JumpStart: Independent Film Investor Pitch template is designed to streamline the creation of a new Investor Pitch for your film - including a complete, structured presentation of pre-staged slides ready for you to customize to your own production, with tips & recommendations built into each slide to help guide you.
PitchBoards Sketch makes it easy to print storyboarding blanks for 4:3, 16:9, Scope, and Multiscope ratios directly from Pages – so you can start sketching your boards or drafting your pitch before you've started a single slide in Keynote.
Build Smarter
The PitchBoards Neo framework is highly optimized for the new Composer Engine.
The PitchBoards Neo themes are fully Composer-Enhanced, enabling precise Object-Level and Sub-Element Targeting in your Composer scripts. And when you target a PitchBoards theme in the Composer UI, additional PitchBoards-centric assistants can be brought into the mix.
PitchBoards MetaBar Composer
Standard Features
Multiple Chart Palettes
The PitchBoards Neo framework includes a colorful, broad-spectrum primary palette along with a pair of alternate warm/cool neutral blends, so you can use as much - or as little - color as you like.
Camera Overlay Objects
Camera Movement Overlay shapes are available directly within the theme, making it a snap to add Dolly, Truck, Crane, or Zoom motion references to your shots.
Multiple Coordinated Table Styles
Each theme includes a full selection of coordinated table styles, designed to cover a range of common color & content-density models for tabular data.
Extended Text Styling
An extensive Paragraph & Character Styles model makes it easy to apply coordinated Emphasis patterns or match settings throughout your slides.
Integrated References
Supplemental Materials are built directly into the themes, making it a snap to reference color or style information at any time during the authoring process.
