Writers room across the world has one prominent fixture, aside from large open tables, couches, coffee vending machine and so on. They feature a large board on which writers stick index cards neatly organized into acts. Writers like to organize their story into beats and organize them in a act-wise layout. If there is one […]
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Screenwriters understand that each page they write will translate to approximately 1 min on the screen. Until version 0.5.2, writers could look at the status bar, see the current page and page count to get a sense of screen time. Total number of pages would translate to total number of minutes of screen time. Current […]
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Marathi Support
One of the most requested features in Scrite is support for Marathi. With version 0.5.2, we are taking a stab at this. The built-in transliteration for Marathi works exactly the same as the built-in Hindi transliteration. The application comes bundled with Shusha font by default, but you can use any other font of your choice. […]
For software developers, an IDE provides several ways of working with code in a unified way. Perhaps we can think of a Scrite as an IDE for screenplay writers. After all screenplay is the source-code of a film! Scrite offers three distinct ways to work with a screenplay. Screenplay Editor: where the actual screenplay is […]
Screenplays & stories are made up of characters. There are a few stories where we can notice only one or two characters, however most stories employ between 2 and 20 characters, although we could find cases where there are more than 20 also. A writer must ensure that relationships between characters are portrayed consistently across […]
We have been running an early adopter survey for a few weeks now. Scrite shows an in-app notification requesting the user to respond to our survey. Quite a few of our users have responded. Who are these users who responded to the survey? It turns out, half of the people who responded on the survey […]
The key differentiating feature in Scrite is the Structure Tab. It is in this tab you can visually map your screenplay and construct the flow of your story. With 0.4.14, we have added a new feature in the Structure Tab called Annotations. We believe that a lot of users will find it really interesting. Let’s […]
Few of our early adopters wrote to us that they would like to extract a subset of their screenplay that contains only DAY scenes or NIGHT scenes or INT scenes or EXT scenes. With Scrite 0.4.14 Beta, you can quickly filter scenes by these and generate a report. When you now select Export > Screenplay […]
Since the first beta release of Scrite back in April 2020, a built-in transliteration mechanism was baked into the app. Many users complained that the transliteration was not as easy as the ML based transliteration services that people are used to like Google Translate and even Microsoft’s own inbuilt features in Windows 10. We did […]
Scrite comes bundled with fonts for each language it supports. Until 0.4.12, you had to use only those fonts and no other within your screenplays. Starting with 0.4.13, we now make it possible for users to assign custom fonts to each language they want to use. The Application tab in Settings now allows you to […]