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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 - adding Items


Clicking on the small + (plus) icon brings up the Add Item... dialog box, as shown in the following screenshot:

The top item we can add is Script. Note that in the right part of the dialog box, we can choose which kind of script. This is one heck of an important concept. We opened a Film project, which gives us a way to write feature movie scripts that Celtx formats in the industry standard way for such scripts. We did not open a Theatre (Stageplay) project or a Comic Book project or any other kind.

Okay, drum roll please, here it comes, that important concept: but we can add any kind of script to this Film project and it will format properly depending on the type, that is, comic books as comic books, A/V scripts as A/V scripts, and so on. This action adds additional scripts (of the type we selected) into the Project Library.

We can have any number of scripts in any combination in any type of Celtx project. Four comic book scripts, an A/V script, and three audio...