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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

Time for action - adapting to another type of script


The Adapt To selection on the Script menu lets us change the type of script to another. I used one of my favorite adages, "write once, use many" when we first met the adapt feature in Chapter 2. Assuming we have a Screenplay open (as we do), on the choices shown in the following screenshot, we see that Screenplay is grayed out (we don't need to convert something to the same thing it already is). We can, however convert it to a stage play, an A/V (audio visual) script, an audio play (like a radio program), a comic book, or a storyboard.

Now I think Portals would make a dandy comic book. With one click, we convert the screenplay to comic format (which looks like the following), ready for a little bit of editing and then submitting to Marvel or whoever:

Alternatively, it would make a super stage place. Click. Done.

Also having a storyboard would be useful. Click.

That's how easy it is. Write once, use many.

Converting does not lose any of our...