Some of the minor things I could live without, but other folks might find cool include the video chat via the 3rd party video chat provider TokBox and the built-in music player. It’s not only a guide of how to format your screenplay, but tips peppered through the documentation on how to write more professionally and presentably. When software responds like this, especially a webapp, you know the designers have put in some thought. I didn’t look that up in the docs I just tried it, and it worked. But going back to keystrokes, they also work to bold and italicize stuff, just like a real live word processor.Īnd also, when switching to Dual Dialogue mode (which, yes, it has, while many screenwriter software packages don’t), I found that Command plus an arrow key got me back and forth between the two talking characters with ease. The Command-S archives a backup copy on WriterDuet’s servers, and lets you tag a revision for future reference. And it turns out, it’s not even necessary, because every change is instantly saved automatically (with a full history so you can always see the older versions). As simple as that sounds, it’s not that common, even now in the 21st century, to find a screenwriting webapp that responds to keystrokes, let alone combo keystrokes. What’s more, I intuitively hit APPLE-S to save my work, and, yep, it saved. So the formatting of the line I’m on is determined by whenever I stop tabbing, just like many popular offline screenwriting programs. When on a line and I tab, it cycles through SLUG (Writer Duet calls it SCENE), ACTION, and CHARACTER. Writer Duet’s responsiveness was nice and, and its key commands were fairly intuitive (tabbing to select among character, parentheticals, dialogue, etc.). I know, little stuff, but immensely cool. Anybody clicked into the script (as opposed, to say, having the window open, but clicking inside your email program elsewhere on your desktop screen), shows up with a GREEN icon next to their name. Writer Duet invited him, and within a few minutes, he was in.Īlso, you can tell when your partner has the open script you’re working on as his active window. I then entered his name and email and an optional note, and poof. To get my partner to join, it was a simple click. Whatever revisions he makes, I’ll see in a little red highlight box when I scroll up to that page, and the same for him regarding my revisions. I could be on page 10, and my partner on page 1. And the two writers don’t even have to be on the same page. Nothing like having my writing partner jump in and be editing one part of a page while I’m typing in the next, again, in real time. The collaboration part works pretty well. It’s a pretty nice little screenwriting software package for single writers as well, and with future development may even prove a viable Movie Magic Screenwriter alternative. It’s main feature is that two or more screenwriters can log in to Writer Duet, for free, and edit the same exact script on the screen, in real-time, as each single character is typed by each of the writers.īut while punching in a test script, it occurred to me that this webapp was not just a collaboration suite. Today I jumped into a new online screenwriting app called Writer Duet. And now, the original article, published before Screencraft lost all their customers’ scripts on Scripped and apparently left WriterDuet to pick up the pieces:
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