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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

Additional buttons


In the far upper right of the main Celtx screen, we have a couple of other buttons we should mention. The small arrow/white box icon just above Breakdown in the following screenshot collapses the right sidebar and widens the script window:

Click on it again (the arrow has changed directions) to restore the right sidebar.

The round life preserver icon with four red diagonals is not a customization feature but, rather, one of help. Clicking on it causes a Celtx FAQ page to open in our browser.

Pop quiz

  1. 1. How do you start a new project?

  2. 2. If you had a screenplay that you wanted to adapt into a comic book, how would you change the type of Celtx project?

  3. 3. If you are working with Celtx and have a question, how do you find help?

    1. a. Click on the Help menu at the top of Celtx's main window

    2. b. Visit the Celtx website at http://celtx.com

    3. c. Reread the appropriate section of this book

    4. d. All of the above

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