Clearly, Celtx has great potential for writers in terms of collaboration, but it's the nuts and bolts of script writing that we really care about. Creating a script is just like creating any other item in the program so you can add multiple scripts in a single project. The script editor layout is somewhat customizable, but not nearly as much as we would have liked to seen. This is one area that suffers. On the up side, however, formatting your script is made easy with a pulldown box with a variety of presets. Using this tool will format the line where your cursor lies to whatever preset you choose (e.g. scene, action character, dialogue, etc.), eliminating extra key strokes.

Overall, Celtx is a perfect script writing software for beginners and intermediate writers/producers that embodies the whole process of script writing. And, it's free.

Platform: PC, Mac, Linux
OS: Windows 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP/ Mac OS X 10.2.x or higher/Linux kernel 2.2.14 or higher
Processor 233MHz Pentium or PowerPC G3
RAM 128 MB

• Free
• Multiple platforms
• Easy to use

• Limited customer service
• Usage statistic tracking
• Waiting for more video tutorials

Celtx will help you organize your script for free; it's the coffee that adds up.

Mark Montgomery is Videomaker's technical editor.

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Celtx
www.celtx.com