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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 - beginning our new AV project


We start our project, as we did our spec script in the last chapter, by making a directory on our computer. Having a separate directory for our projects makes it a lot easier to organize and to find stuff when we need it.

Therefore, I first create the new empty directory on my hard drive named Celtx Loves Indies, as shown in the following screenshot:

Now, fire up Celtx. In a moment, we'll left click on Audio-Visual to open a project container that has an Audio-Visual script in it. However, first, since I have not mentioned it to date, look at the items outside the Project Templates and Recent Project boxes in the lower part of the splash page, as shown in the following screenshot:

As Celtx is connected to the Internet (or should be, see Chapter 1, Obtaining and Installing Celtx, as to why and for instructions on how to set this up on your computer), we get some information each time Celtx starts up from the servers at:http://celtx.com.

This information...