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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide Celtx won't write your script for you, but it will ensure it has the format and features demanded by the film industry. Learn to use Celtx along with insider secrets of screenwriting and script-marketing into the bargain.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2011
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ISBN-13 9781849513821
Length 376 pages
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Obtaining and Installing Celtx FREE CHAPTER 2. All those Wonderful Writing Features 3. Visualizing Productions Ahead of Time 4. Tools for Getting Organized 5. Tooling Up for Scriptwriting 6. Advanced Celtx 7. Writing Movies with Celtx 8. Documentaries and Other Audio-Visual Projects 9. Raising the Curtain on Plays 10. Audio Plays, Podcasts, and Other Great Sounds 11. WAP! POW! BANG! Writing Comic Books with a Punch 12. Marketing Your Scripts List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps Future Development of Celtx Pop quiz—Answers

Time for action - adding manual catalogs


Carry out the following steps for adding manual catalogs:

  1. 1. Click on the main Add button.

  2. 2. Click on Catalog.

  3. 3. In the Select a catalog type menu list, scroll down and click on Manual Catalog.

  4. 4. Type the name of your new category in the Name: block.

  5. 5. Click on OK.

The new category now appears in the Project Library, as shown in the following screenshot (we've added Food as the category):

Now, an extra step is required. You can tag foods (as in our example) in the script, but you will need to save it as one of the predefined categories. Let's say we have apples and oranges as part of the plot. We save them as Props.

Go to Master Catalog and you'll see apples and oranges listed as Props. Select these by clicking on them (holding down Ctrl for PC or the Command key on Mac lets you select more than one at a time). Drag these selection(s) to Food. Double click on Food and we find our food props now listed. Single click on one of these and blocks appear where...

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