Celtx 1.0 - Out of Beta and into the Brave New World
Its been a long development road... from a fledgling idea for an
open-source based screenwriting application to today's imminent release
of the new Celtx
v1.0; a truly comprehensive professional creative media
development platform.
Listing the Celtx 1.0 feature
set is an almost arduous exercise in production dictation; suffice to
say that if you currently think of Celtx as a nice alternative to Final
Draft as a screenplay formatting tool then you need to very seriously
think again.
Celtx is a complete and holistic
creative development platform - from character and plot structure
planning, through the writing and script revision process, and on into
comprehensive script breakdown, management and scheduling. Screen and
Stage plays, AV scripts, Radio plays and Podcasting formats,
Storyboards and Graphic novel writing templates.
Oh
yeah, and did I mention Celtx is
FREE....?
If you're a Celtx user then
this is the version you've been waiting for.
If
you're not yet a Celtx user, be ready to buy a new vacuum because
you're old boxes of Final Draft and Movie Magic are gonna start
collecting some serious dust in a back corner of your
office....
This
video walks through some of the coolest of the new
features.
The Full New
Feature set is as follows:
KEY NEW
FEATURES Scheduling
Enhancements Catalogs Sidebars Storyboard
Enhancements Adapt To Scene Navigator
Toggle Comic Book Template Changes to HTML
Forms iPhone UI for Celtx
Scripts
SCHEDULING
ENHANCEMENTS We have made substantial changes to the just in
time Scheduling module. You can now generate standard Scheduling
Reports that will include all the information added during the
Breakdown process, like Characters, Actors, Locations and
Props.
>Start & End Shoot
Date Select your Start and End Dates for your shoot to create
a professional Schedule for your media
production.
>Calendar View You can
review and print your Schedule in either a week or month calendar
view.
>Shoot Days A Report can be
generated for each Shoot day, detailing all the production requirements
added during the breakdown process.
>Call
Sheet Generate an industry standard Call Sheet for each day of
your Production.
>Scene
Summary Replacing the awkward strip board, the Scene Summary
Report will tell you what Scenes have been Scheduled, Unscheduled or
Completed.
CATALOGS Catalogs are
a database view of all the information in your Project. The Catalogs
will automatically track and organize all of your Production
information. Mark-ups conducted through the Sidebar will get added to
the Catalog.
There are three types of
Catalogs: >Master Catalog The Master Catalog
is automatically included in each Project. It will contain all the
Production information from every department. The Production Forms can
be edited, sorted and
searched.
>Sub-Catalogs You can also
add Production Department specific Catalogs, like for Props or Set
Design or Wardrobe. These Sub-Catalogs will automatically track any
Production item tagged as belonging to that
Department.
>Manual Catalog You can
also add a Manual Catalog to your Project. You can then add any
Production Item to the Manual Catalog by dragging the Production Item
from the Master Cat or Sub-Cat to the Manual
Cat.
CREW FORM Crew Forms can be
used to keep track of people working on the Project. The Forms can be
tagged to a Scene so that the Crew information is added to the
Scheduling Module helping you to keep track of what and who is needed
on a particular shooting
day.
SIDEBARS We re-invented the
Sidebar, adding three tabs, one each for Notes, Media and Production
Items: >Notes These should prove handy for the
writers, allowing for a much easier process of adding and reviewing
Notes. The Notes in the Sidebar will not auto-sync to whatever Scene
the cursor is placed in.
>Media Any
Media can be added to your Script pictures, video or sounds files
using the new Sidebar. Similar to Notes, the Media displaying in the
Sidebar will automatically sync to whatever Scene the Cursor is place
in.
>Production Items We simplified
the process of breaking down a script by streamlining the Sidebar.
Breaking down your script will go much faster, Production Item Tab in
the Sidebar allowing for rapid categorization and tagging. Production
Items added in the Sidebar will get automatically added to the Master
Catalog (any corresponding
Sub-Catalog)
STORYBOARD
ENHANCEMENTS There are a slew of new features and improvements
made to the Storyboard Module. Generally, we have tried to
better integrate the Storyboard with a Script and provide better
navigation and support for Media.
>Thumbnails
of Images Celtx now auto generates thumbnails of any image
added to the Storyboard, providing a much better look for reviewing and
printing.
>Standard Scrollbar We got
this figured out at last, adding a standard scrollbar to the
Storyboard.
>Aspect Ratio The Aspect Ratio of any added
image is now maintained in the
Storyboard.
>Keyboard Shortcuts The
Storyboard now supports normal cursor behaviour, with the arrow keys,
space bar, etc. all behaving normally.
>Shot
Type Every image added to the Storyboard can be given a shot
tag (eg. Close Up, Wide, etc.)
>Column
Layouts You can view and print your Storyboard in a 1, 2 or 3
column
format.
>Script to Storyboard The Add Item feature
now allows you to select a specific script when adding a Storyboard.
The Storyboard will be integrated with that selected script, the Scenes
in the Script and Sequences in the Storyboard syncing with each
other.
ADAPT TO OPTION Simple to
use, this powerful new feature will allow you to adapt any script in to
any other kind of Celtx supported script format. Turn a Screenplay in
to a Stageplay, or a Stageplay in to a Comic or an AV project in to a
Radioplay all in one click. Context click a script in the
Project Library to access the Adapt To feature and select what kind of
Script you want to turn it in to.
SCENE
NAVIGATOR TOGGLE - Use Index Card Titles / Scene
Headings Alternative Scene Headings in the Index Cards can now
be viewed in the Scene Navigator. This will allow you to more easily
identify and tell the difference between two scenes whose
slug line is identical.
COMIC BOOK
TEMPLATE The new Comic Template provides support for all the
standard comic elements: Page, Panel, Caption, Bubble Type,
and Bubble
Use the Typeset feature to generate a
Panel List Report.
iPHONE
INTERFACE We added a new iPhone optimized interface for
accessing your Projects on the Celtx Server. Named My Celtx you can
use this new iPhone interface to review your scripts
remotely. We will be adding additional features to this iPhone
interface over the coming months.
CHANGES
TO HTML FORMS >We made a number of changes to the
Production Items and Story Development
Forms.
>A new Crew Form was added to help
keep track of the who when producing your
Project
>Regular users will also notice that many of the Forms
now auto-populate to include a list of the scenes that a person,
Character or Production item is used
in.
>Character Forms can now be tagged with a
specific Actor Form. This will help you organize your Production and
the new Scheduling Features will keep track of what Actors are needed
on what days based on the role they are playing.
