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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources
Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps
Future Development of Celtx

The Script menu


Celtx is actually pretty logical so, as we are safe to expect, the Script menu presents us with ways to work with scripts. The following screenshot shows the Script menu:

Importing scripts: Many good reasons exist for importing a script into a Celtx project, and two good ones are as follows:

  • It's a script you've written in Word or maybe another scriptwriting program like Final Draft or Moviemaker and now you want it in Celtx because (as we should all be seeing by now) Celtx is mighty powerful.

  • You're a producer using Celtx because of its many scheduling and tracking features but the writer of your project did it in another program.

The above and numerous other reasons make having a script import capability in Celtx very useful. By importing scripts, we mean, again, scripts from other programs. Scripts written in a Celtx project are easy to pull over into our current project (as we saw in the section Inter-project document management in Chapter 4, it's easy).

A script written in...