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Celtx is a production Tool full of features. It helps you with pre-production, making storyboards, and planing all your stuff. And all that based on your screenplay. Which you also write in this special Software.

I will focus on the Screenplay. In Fact you write with a text editor that only has some little features. You can’t color your Text or choose a fancy font. You can’t even format your text the way you want.

So what is it good for?

Well. You have some “formatting-templates” to swich between. Ther would be normal text. That is where you describe the scene. With a tab you swich to Names. If you type the name of a Character here it’ll be only uppercase letters and centered. After pressing enter it goes to the dialog, which is not centered but put away from the left and right. Another enter brings you to the name again. If you press Tab it’ll go to the description again, if you press tab while in dialog it’ll go to the description of the feeling, which is in Brackets.

Here is a little pdf showing what the endresult is like:

The best thing comes at the end. Celtx is open source, free and you can upload your script to the device central, which gives you a featurefull webpage for it. You can alowe others to view and download it, or keep it for yourself. You can use celtx on more than one computer, if you upload it every time your done writing and download the newest version every time you work on it.

It’s free. Test it. Test all the stuff it can do for you. Also take a look at the tutorials and tipps that are online at the celtx-website.

I love it and use it since my first screenplay. The Screenplays look fantastic and well formatted, which is important when you show it to producers or actors. Word doesn’t do this for you this easy.

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