Production Items Sidebar
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The Production Items Sidebar allows you to perform departmental breakdowns of your script in Celtx. You highlight text items in the script and assign them to the appropriate departments by tagging them. Production breakdowns use industry standard categories like Cast, Extra, Location, Props, Set, Wardrobe, Camera, Lights, Sound etc.
You can detail your breakdown as much as you like by assigning names, descriptions, images and other media files to your breakdown items. Once your breakdown is complete, you can select the Reports icon to generate customized project reports and lists.
There is a button on the Script Editor Toolbar to show/hide the sidebar, or you can pick Script | Sidebar to toggle its visibility.
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Breakdown Categories
Tagging
To create a new entry in the Production Items Sidebar, execute the following steps:
- In the editor, select the item to be added by highlighting the word or words describing the item
- In the Sidebar, select the Category of the item to be added.
- In the Item window, select <New...>
- Click the "Tag" button
The new item will now appear in the Item window for the selected Category. You may now enter additional information including a description.
If for whatever reason you decide that you no longer want an item to be tagged, simply select it in the script and click the "Remove Markup" button on the Script Editor Toolbar.
Adding Media
Another one of the great features of Celtx is that it allows you to better visualize your project by giving you the ability to add image, sound and video files directly to marked up items in your script, or to unassociated text, just as reference material. A great feature to have when researching your project.
Add Media Button
Media can be added to script items that have already been tagged. While in the Sidebar, simply select the 'Add Media' button. A file browser will open to choose the media to assign to the item. To remove a media file from the item, select the media thumbnail and then select the 'Remove Media' button. The media file is no longer associated with the breakdown item.
Supported Media Formats
Mac
- Images - .jpg / .png / .gif
- Sound - .mp3 / .wav / .au / .mid / .aif
- Video - .mpg / .mov / .avi (though not all avi files are created equal, some may not be supported)
Windows
- This list is dependent on whether the QT plug-in is installed.The formats that are natively supported (without Quicktime installed) are:
- Images - .jpg / .png / .gif
- Sound - .au / .aiff / .wma
- Video - .wmv
Removing Media
To remove any media files that were added previously to the Sidebar Media Viewer, simply click on the image, then select 'Remove'. Removing image items from the Sidebar also removes them from Breakdown Reports.
Images button
When an item is selected, the Images button opens a browser on a search page with the Name of the item used to search Google Images. Makes finding images to 'borrow' a breeze.
