Celtx is the
world's first all-in-one media pre-production software. It has everything you
need to take your story from concept to production. Celtx replaces 'paper, pen
& binder' pre-production with a digital approach that's more complete,
simpler to work with, and easier to share.
In media,
"preproduction" generally means drawing stuff: sketching out ideas on
storyboards, whiteboards, legal pads, and even cocktail napkins. Greyfirst's
Celtx is a free tool that finally brings preproduction into the same century as
the media it creates, with some old-school touches, too. It includes Project
Templates for planning and creating Film, Audio-Visual, Theatre, Audio Play,
Storyboard, Comic Book, and Novel projects. Sample projects help get you started.
Celtx integrates with free online and cloud-based resources and syncs with your
mobile devices, so your creative projects are always available and safely
stored online in the cloud, as well as on your home PC and smartphone or other
mobile device. You have to sign up for Celtx online, but it's free, too.
Celtx opens with a start
screen listing its template types, as well as sample templates and news about
the software and the large and active Celtx community. We clicked the first
template, Film, which opened an Untitled project template with a layout and
look recalling classic Office, with Project Library and Scenes in the left
sidebar; Notes, Media, Breakdown, and more on the right; and in between a main
window with word processor-style controls above and tabs for Script,
TypeSet/PDF, Scratchpad, Index Cards, Title Page, and Reports along the bottom
edge. The program's Tools include a spell checker and inline spell checker, but
there's a Toolbox feature for adding and managing optional Celtx tools.
We named and saved our
project and moved on to Scene 1 in the Script tab. A drop-down menu let us
choose Scene Heading, Action, Character, Dialogue, Shot, and more. The default
typeface is classic movie script that looks like it was done on a manual.
typewriter. We could edit dialogue, move blocks of text, and even lock portions
with a Text Lock feature. The Title Page template has precentered fields, and
we just had to compose our titles, choose fonts and other factors, and type
them in the appropriate fields. And that's just a sample. Its forums,
user-created "Seeds," and much more set Celtx apart from any other
tool of its type.
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