Learn the Audio Play Editor in Celtx

Video Transcript

"DREW NOAH: So the next editor I'll show you in Celtx is the Audio Play Editor. And to create this, just like everything else, I'm going to go to Add, and then it's our last script option here. And there you go, there's the audio play. And what this is--it's more like an old-fashioned, like, radio play, back when there was no TV, that kind of thing. You can also think of it more like a modern version. It can be an audio podcast. So probably not as typical as the other script options like Screenplay, Stageplay and A/V Script 'cause video is not involved, but it's available in Celtx, and I'll show you how to use it. So let's set this up for Scene 1, and then here are our actions. We have a Scene Heading, Production Note, Character, Dialog, Parenthetical, Sound, Voice and Music. I said Actions, I meant our kind of format in here. You'll see we're on Production Note, and I mean if you've written an audio play before, you'll know what should be here; I've never really messed with it. But maybe you set the scene a little bit in your production notes, and then you can go set up your Characters and then Dialogs, of course, after that it's going to be Parenthetical and you can do Sound, Voice and Music, which is also be very important for an audio play. And it's going to work just like the other screenplay editors and those other editors. That Return is going to take me up this line to backwards, and Tab is going to push me forwards down this list. When I'm here, I also could just select right away. You see, it put me straight to Character. And all of the other options are the same. The toolbar is the same. I can still add production items, and my scene still shows up in my old scene's toolbar here. It's also the same down here. We've got TypeSet, Index Cars, Title Page, Cast and Reports. So that is how you use the Audio Play Editor in Celtx."