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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

Summary


In this chapter, we've looked at some of Celtx's more advanced features and even gone beyond that with import and export workarounds to save time and effort.

Specifically, we learned first about multiple projects in a single container. Unlike conventional screenwriting software, we saw that we can have many files in the same Celtx project, even unrelated scripts, Word files, photos, video clips, and much more.

Thanks to Celtx's small footprint (economical use of our computers' resources), we can have several copies of it open at once—in other words, several projects open, each of those containing many more projects. This, too, is real power.

We also used two techniques (Celtx's and my own) in this in-depth look at getting already written scripts into Celtx.

Finally, since the entire world does not yet use Celtx, we examined accurate ways of putting our completed scripts out in formats that others can use.

This book, up to now, has been more about how to use Celtx rather than what to use...

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