Forms and Other Media - Adding Items to your Project
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Celtx provides many different types of documents and Forms that can be added to a Project.
Document types are added through the [[Add Item dialog]]. Celtx provides six (6) different editors, each for writing a specific kind of script. The Add Item dialog can also be used to add a Storyboard, Production Schedule, Bookmark, Calendar and any External File. For ease of use, the Add Item dialog also includes two popular Forms used by writers - the Scene Details Form and a Character Development Form.
Forms are used to augment the writing process or to complete a script breakdown. Forms are added through the Catalog.
By default, each Celtx Project will include a Script and a [[Catalog].
Pick Lists
Using 'Pick Lists', the pre-loaded forms can be intelligently tied to the script, allowing you to associate locations or props or wardrobe items to specific characters or scenes. The forms haven't been hard-wired though so you can add them to your existing project whether you have a script or not. (Please Note: Pick Lists do not apply to Text documents.)
Customize your Forms
All the new pre-loaded Celtx forms are HTML templates designed to be customized by the user. If you are so inclined, sample instructions to modify ie. the Character and Scene Detail Forms can be found here.
Deleting Items from your Project
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Pre-loaded Celtx Documents
Text Document
Celtx offers a Plain Text Editor tool that you can use to create whatever kind of text-based document your heart desires, including Outlines, Treatments, Poems, Song Lyrics, Short Stories, Letters, or for the truly brave - a Complete Novel. You can drag and drop images into your document as you type, or easily cut and paste text contents to and from other Celtx forms and document items, and print off hard copies.
The Text option can be selected from an existing project's 'Add Item' dialog, or from the dialog presented when creating a new project.
With a little help from your Tab and Enter keys, the Plain Text document supports nested bullets so it can be used to make Outlines.
Character and Scene Details Forms
We’ve added some new functionality to the Scene Details and Character Forms. Upon selection of these forms from the 'Add Item' dialog, you will see that they offer a ‘Pick List' that can be used to quickly associate a form with a relevant Scene or Character element from the script. The pick list populates as you write and add new characters / scenes to the script. Note though that we haven’t hardwired the forms so you can add them to your project whether you have a script or not.
So for instance, from the 'Add Item' Dialog, the Scene Details pick list would appear like this:
Character Details
- HTML Form - Description / purpose
- Character Name
- Full Name
- Description
- Adding characters
- Deleting characters
- Dropdown picklists
- Media -Adding Media / Deleting Media
We like to think of this as Character 101. The Character Detail form is used to provide background information for your characters to aid you in the writing process. Also when collaborating with others, other users will be able to read your character profiles to get a better sense of how these characters react and behave under different circumstances.
The Catalog will include a Form for each Character in the script. You can add more Characters to this list using the Add + button in the Catalog toolbar. Once a character is added to the Catalog it will also get added to the character auto-complete pop-up that appears each time you write a Character name in the Script. If the character has dialog, it will appear in the Character list.
Scene Details
- HTML Form - Description / purpose
- Scene Title
- Alternate Scene Title
- Description
- Media - Adding Media / Removing Media
- Dropdowns picklists
- Version 0951 Description:
This is to complement the Character Details tab allowing users to better describe details about a particular scene that may fall outside the scope of the Sceneheader or Action description. By filling in these extra details, the writer can give the reader a better sense of the scene, including the goals and mood of a given scene. Using Scene Details is a pretty simple process. When the user selects the Scene Details tab, a list of scenes is presented on the left. Select a scene and the Sceneheader will be presented at the top of the details form. The user can then fill in the particular details for each scene. This information is saved when the user switches to another scene, or to another tab in the application.
Schedule / Calendar
You can now keep multiple schedules in a Celtx Project, each of which will now be included in the Collaboration sync, allowing you to share calendars with team members.
We’ve also switched to Lightning for our Calendar. The Mozilla Lightning Project uses the same code base as the Mozilla Sunbird Project, which was the previous calendar we used, so your dates should transfer over nicely.
Lightning 0.1 Release Notes
Lightning Development Weblog
The Lightning development team keeps a development weblog. It is intended for everyone who is looking for in-depth, up-to-date information about current events in Lightning development.
Actor Profile Form
Location Form
Locations / Google Map feature
Prop Form
Wardrobe Form
Bookmarks
External Files
External Files refer to any kind of existing document created in any other application like PDFs, Spreadsheets, Storyboards, even Scripts written in other applications. These can be added to your Celtx folder by choosing the "Add New Document' icon. When the files are selected within the Project Navigator each document will open in its default application where it can be modified and then saved back to the Celtx folder. That way you’ll always know that you have the latest version of a particular file in your Celtx Project making it easier to Collaborate with team members.
How to Add an External File
- While in an open project, select the blue 'Add New Document' icon from the Project Navigator toolbar.
- Then in the dialog displayed, click on the 'File' document from 'Select Item'.
- Under 'Item Details' select 'Browse' and navigate to the desired file within your local directory and select 'Open'.
- The file then attaches to the dialog and it's name appears in the 'Name field'. Here you can change the file's name or leave as is.
- Select the 'Folder' dropdown to choose where you want to store your file within the project. Files are stored in 'Project Home' by default.
- Hit 'OK'.
- The new file is now added to your project and can be accessed within the Project Navigator.
