

‘Offline Mode’ is accessible within the Celtx free version.

With the amount of inspired action that goes into film, media, and television production, this aspect of the program is paramount to allow team members to quickly act on their creative impulses to develop their productions. This allows for concise formatting to keep every team member in sync and updated. This aspect is not only helpful for remote team members but is also favorable for onsite teams due to needing only one document.Ĭeltx script writing documents are viewable and editable in real-time. This is an optimum feature for distributed teams who collaborate offsite.

And with the addition of a Kanban-like storyboard (found in the Project section), Arc Studio makes it incredibly easy to outline an entire season of your series.Much like Google Docs, Celtx allows for online collaboration. In comparison to nearly all other script writing tools on the market, I find Arc Studio to have the most well-designed interface that is as easy on the eyes as it is efficient to work with. And with a very modern-looking UI, it should as pleasant to look at as it is functional. Just about anyone can drop into this application and start working without much of a learning curve. No, it doesn't offer nearly the feature set of Final Draft, but Arc Studio has an ideal ratio of features to usability. The interfaceĪs far as the interface is concerned, I've found Arc Studio to be exponentially easier to use than Final Draft. I've written page after page and never had to manually format a single item, simply because Arc Studio picked everything up for me. This automatic formatting feature does the bulk of the formatting work for you. Because of that, I don't want to have to worry about manually formatting documents that depend on a proper layout ( Figure 1).įormat structure is very simple on a per-element basis. I'm all about working efficiently and I go to great lengths to find ways to always be improving my workflow.

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