February 8th, 2012 | by KT | screenwriting
Feb
08
A couple of years ago, screenwriter John August came up with an easy, straightforward way to incorporate script excerpts into web pages and blogs and forum posts. With a little simple formatting, plain text would be automatically formatted to look like a screenplay. John called it Scrippets.
I thought that was a cool idea, so I put support for it in Fade In.
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January 23rd, 2012 | by KT | screenwriting
Jan
23
Not quite twelve months ago I wrote about finally giving up, once and for all, on Final Draft as a tool for screenwriting. I also wrote about what were, for me, the shortcomings of any potential alternatives.
Now, almost a year later, it’s interesting to see how much — or how little — has changed.
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September 18th, 2011 | by KT | screenwriting
Sep
18
Dual dialogue — i.e., dialogue positioned in two columns side-by-side to indicate two characters speaking simultaneously — is another in the list of things that modern screenwriting programs do pretty badly.
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September 8th, 2011 | by KT | screenwriting
Sep
08
Fade In Professional Screenwriting Software and Fade In Mobile both now have preliminary support for the previously discussed Screenplay Markdown format, or SPMD.
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August 13th, 2011 | by KT | screenwriting
Aug
13
(Or, rather, Some Longish and Somewhat Technical Notes on Screenplay Markdown.)
Stu Maschwitz recently wrote about using Markdown syntax for screenplay formatting. Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for writing for the web, originally designed by John Gruber a few years back and now not uncommon as a formatting aid in online forums and other software.
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July 10th, 2011 | by KT | screenwriting
Jul
10
I’ve spent the last couple of months, in between working on new film projects, on getting the mobile version of Fade In ready for release — mainly working around different platform behaviours and toolkit shortcomings.
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March 31st, 2011 | by KT | screenwriting
Mar
31
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February 8th, 2011 | by KT | screenwriting
Feb
08
When a screenwriter decides, even tentatively, that it’s time to part ways with Final Draft, of course the next thing is to try to find a piece of screenwriting software to replace it.
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February 1st, 2011 | by KT | screenwriting
Feb
01
If there’s one thing screenwriters do more than writing, it seems like it’s complaining about Final Draft. Some pros have just given up and jumped ship despite Final Draft being, for whatever it’s worth, the “industry standard” of screenwriting software.
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