Working at Bancroft, I learned to use “Adobe Story.” Which is Adobe’s take on scriptwriting
software a la “Final Cut” or “Celtx.”
It’s writing functionality is generally the same as those tools. But
“Story” can be cloud based. That way I could work on the script from home or
work, and never miss a beat.
The downside of Adobe Story is how buggy it is. On Celtx,
when you write an A/V script the input is the same as a normal narrative
script. But it spits out the PDF in a two-column format.
Adobe Story has you type audio and visuals in the two
separate columns individually. It’s not a huge deal, but it causes bugs when
you’re working on the cloud. The pages don’t automatically add themselves, so
you can’t write past one page while being able to see what you’re typing.
I tried to troubleshoot for this issue with no luck. Adobe
Story is a relatively new program, and I couldn’t find much in their FAQ or
through Google.
While working with this new program was fun, I decided to
switch back to Celtx so I could work faster. It means I need to email Bruce my
work in progress, and he just edits it with a .pdf editor.
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