TillyBoard vs Previs Pro

What Previs Pro is for

Storyboard and previsualisation app for Mac, iPad and iPhone: build scenes in 3D with cameras, lights and characters, then output storyboards and animatics.

Directors and cinematographers who want to block shots in 3D with real camera and lens parameters.

Previs tools solve blocking: where the camera sits, which lens, how the light falls. That precision costs time per shot — worth it on complex scenes, less so on a shoot day with thirty simple setups.

Where Previs Pro is strong

A comparison that only lists your own upsides is not one. This is what speaks for Previs Pro:

• 3D previs with real camera parameters, lighting and poses
• AR virtual camera and LiDAR scan import for location previs
• Script import from Final Draft, Fountain and Celtx; export as animatic or NLE timeline

Where the limits are

And these are the points where teams run into limits in practice — not as a flaw, but as a consequence of the design:

• Apple platforms only — Mac, iPad and iPhone — according to its pricing page
• No shooting schedule, call sheet or equipment module on its product page

Where TillyBoard takes a different route

Previs Pro blocks single shots in 3D; TillyBoard plans the whole shoot from the brief — shot list, schedule, call sheet and packing list.

TillyBoard turns a brief into a shoot-ready package: shot list, storyboard, schedule and call sheet that stay connected. Change the creative direction and the affected shots are flagged rather than quietly left behind.

Which tool when

In short: Directors and cinematographers who want to block shots in 3D with real camera and lens parameters. If your bottleneck is instead getting from a brief to a plan that holds, that is where TillyBoard starts.

The useful question before switching is not which tool does more, but where the process stalls today. Three bottlenecks come up again and again in production teams, and they call for different tools:

• The plan comes together too slowly: days pass between the brief and a shoot-ready shot list, with the client already chasing.
• The paperwork drifts apart: shot list, schedule and call sheet live in three files, and after the second change none of them agrees with the others.
• Distribution eats the time: the plan is done, but every version has to be sent to twenty people by hand and chased up.

What to check before switching

Keep Previs Pro for complex blocking and move the shoot plan around it into TillyBoard.

Switching tools mid-production almost always costs more than it saves on that job. The sensible moment is between two projects, with a pilot small enough to run twice if it comes to that. Check first whether the export formats match what post and accounting expect — migrations fail there more often than on features.