I'm working on a radio sit-com right now. Anyone know of a formatting application I can download?
My old staple, Final Draft, isn't any use, and while I can get a template of the BBC's preferred radio format as a guide, the free software they offer doesn't seem to be compatible with Mac OSX.
Am I to suffer the indignity of adjusting indents manually?
There's Celtx which is a fantastic program and it's makers fantastic people 
ScriptSmart's radio template (for Word) is very good (when you get the hang of it). Then you just use TAB to bounce between character and dialogue.
You can find it in the BBC Writer's Room website pages somewhere.
Hope this helps
Dan
Thanks, I'll be sure to check out this celtx. Is it free? what's your hand in it?
Script Smart is the program I mentioned above that isn't compatible.
Yeah it's free. http://www.celtx.com/ I just like the program a lot and it comes with a forum with really helpful guys on there.
It's all good, it's all good.
Cool, I'll download it as soon as I get out of this turd of an office.
Lee
Can you export Celtx to Word format? Just wondering as a lot of places accept Word documents and want to know if there's an easy translation thing so they can read it when sent.
Cheers
Dan
I'm not sure if you can actually, lol?
Celtx export allows you to save as HTML or Text. From a very quick look the HTML doesn't look that good unfortunately and loses a lot of formatting.
I usually export to PDF with CutePDF writer.
Celtx is great by the way.
EDIT: The HTML export isn't bad actually, imports into word quite nicely although it puts an extra line under the character name which annoys me, might be able to fix that in the stylesheet.
Cool. As long as I have a format that production companies will accept, it's fine by me.
Cheers ShoePie
Dan
Will Celtx at least export to PDF? If it won't it's as good as useless isn't it?
It does export to PDF.
I don't see how to do that. Any pointers?
Quote: David Bussell @ October 22, 2007, 2:41 PMI'm working on a radio sit-com right now. Anyone know of a formatting application I can download?
My old staple, Final Draft, isn't any use, and while I can get a template of the BBC's preferred radio format as a guide, the free software they offer doesn't seem to be compatible with Mac OSX.
Am I to suffer the indignity of adjusting indents manually?
I'm able to use scriptsmart with word for mac on osx - no problem apart from the usual scriptsmart annoyances.
Quote: David Bussell @ October 31, 2007, 12:45 PMI don't see how to do that. Any pointers?
Well I'm on XP so it may not be the same, plus I haven't got the lastest Celtx on this computer yet, lol. On my version it's, click on Script at the top and then Generate PDF.
You could also try their forums - http://forums.celtx.com/index.php