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Project Settings > Plugins > ta Draughtsman. These are saved per user (EditorPerProjectUserSettings).

Setting Default Meaning
Default Overlay Mode Overlay How the panel is drawn over the camera view when the editor starts.
Default Opacity 0.5 Opacity of Overlay.
Line Color warm yellow Line colour of Lines.
Corner Position Bottom Right Where Corner puts the inset.
Corner Size 0.28 Width of the corner inset as a share of the frame (0.1 to 0.6).
Follow Sequencer On Show the panel under the Sequencer playhead while a board’s master or shot sequence is open.
Setting Default Meaning
Cut Warm Up Frames 4 Frames rendered and thrown away at each cut of a camera animatic, so exposure and anti-aliasing settle (1 to 32).
Frame Warm Up Frames 1 Frames rendered per written frame inside a shot (1 to 8).
Reveal Animatic On Open the output folder when an export from the panel finishes.
Setting Default Meaning
Build After Import On Build or sync the sequence right after an import from the panel.

Open a Storyboard asset’s details to change these:

Property Default Meaning
Title the asset name Set to the asset’s name when the board is created. Shown as the Title burn-in of animatics (an empty title shows the asset name). The panel header always shows the asset name.
Frame Rate 24 fps Display rate of the sequences and animatics.
Resolution 1920 × 1080 The camera aspect (filmback) and the animatic size.
Default Shot Duration 3 s Length of shots whose source gives no duration and no panel timing.
Default Panel Duration 2 s Seconds per panel when only the panels are known (a panel folder without a list).
Default Focal Length 35 mm Lens of shots that don’t name one.
Shot Prefix sh Prefix of shot names in Sequencer: sh gives sh010.
Sequence Folder empty Content folder for the sequences. Empty puts them next to the board in <Board>_Sequences.
Panel Folder empty Content folder for the panel textures. Empty puts them next to the board in <Board>_Panels.

The board also keeps its Shots, the Master Sequence made by Build and the sources of the last import (for Re-import).