Celtx 1.0 is released! June 5, 2008
Posted by James D Hartland in Celtx, Final Draft, Pre-production, Software.trackback
Celtx (pronounced “Celtics” with a hard C), everyone’s favourite, free script writing and pre production application for Windows, Mac and Linux has finally been updated to version 1.0, which means it’s now feature complete. (Until they start adding new feature towards the next mile stone release at least!)
Based purely on the release notes and a quick 5 minute play it seems there are two new features specifically for screenwriters with this update, an improved index card/scene navigation and a rather swanky new Notes side bar which looks like a much improved way to write and review notes on your script. All the other features are more to do with the pre-production side of things. (Release notes here)
Although I never talk about the pre-production side of Celtx because as screenwriters it doesn’t really matter to us, really the impetus for creating Celtx was to make an application that integrated all the various parts of pre-production into one application built around the screenplay. Because of this there are all kinds of tools in it for syncing storyboards to the script and creating shooting schedules and stuff like that which make Celtx far more than just a straight up screenwriting app. So like I say, a lot of the new features are to do with that rather than the screenwriting element of the software.
Thankfully the developers of Celtx have done a great job at making it in such a way that you can use it simply as a robust screenwriting application and never even know there are all these other powerful script report generating tools and what not. I have no doubts that even as it becomes a more powerful pre-production app it will always remain first and foremost a really great screenwriting application.
Everyday I get at least one person finding their way to this blog after googling the topic of downloading a bootleg, pirate version of Final Draft. All those people should just download Celtx. It is mature enough now it has reached 1.0 that it will meet the needs of all but the most demanding professional writers.
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