Editing scripts

A title page is automatically inserted when you create a script in Adobe Story. You can insert title pages for scripts that you have imported into Adobe Story, or for scripts that do not have a title page.

If you import a script created in flex version containing a title page in HTML version, the title page is automatically imported.

You can remove a title page in a script using Production > Remove Title Page.

You can add header and footer applicable for the first page of a script, which is different from the header and footer for the rest of the script.

To edit the content of header/footer, navigate to the Modify header footer dialog and update the fields. Note: Inline editing and formatting changes are not supported. Header footer section is read only.

You can navigate through your script using page numbers. You can jump to a particular page by entering the page number. To go to a specific page, select View > Go to Page. The Go to Page dialog is displayed. Enter the page number in the text field and click GO.

Available for: All Story Customers

You can now enter Script On-Air Time in film and TV scripts. Script On-Air time is the broadcast time of the start of the show in the 24-hour format (hh:mm:ss). On-Air time of the first scene includes the Opening Title Duration and the duration of the First Part Break, if assigned.

The Scene On-Air Time is the broadcast time of the scene. The Scene On-Air time of any scene is autogenerated based on the duration of the previous scenes and duration of previous part breaks and the opening title. The Script Outline view displays the On-Air time and cumulative running time or running time based on the View > Scene Duration setting. If you hover the mouse over the time values, a tooltip would show to let you know if the time value is On-Air time or cumulative running time or running time.

To enter the Script On-Air Time, do the following:

1. Click Edit > Script Properties to launch the Script properties dialog box.
2. Enter the Script On-Air Time.

Available for: All Story Customers

You can now enter the Opening Title Duration, Closing Title duration, and assign durations to part breaks in film and TV scripts. This feature is useful when you want to plan out the timing for an entire show including titles, commercial breaks, and ending credits.

To enter the Opening Title Duration and the Closing Title Duration, do the following:

1. Select Edit > Script Properties to launch the Script Properties dialog box.
2. Enter the Opening Title Duration and the Closing Title Duration.

The outline view displays any Part Breaks entered in the script with zero duration by default. You can double-click the break duration time to launch the part break duration edit dialog in which you can enter the duration. The cumulative duration at the end of a scene is the sum of the Opening Title duration, all Part Break durations present in the script before the scene, and the duration of all the scenes including the current scene.

If you generate a timings report from the script, it would have the Running Time (R/T) and the Cumulative R/T columns populated from the script.

You can adjust the spacing between lines in a document. You can use the following options to adjust the spacing:

• 1.0 Single line
• 1.5 One and a Half line
  
• 2.0 Double line

To apply spacing, select the lines and click the Line spacing icon on the formatting toolbar.

Story identifies a paragraph as a block of lines without a line break. You can adjust the spacing before and after paragraphs in your scene. To adjust spacing, select the paragraph and click the Line spacing icon on the formatting toolbar.

• To Add space before a paragraph, select Add Space Before Paragraph.
• To add space after a paragraph, select Add Space After Paragraph.

To remove the spacing settings, click the Line spacing icon on the formatting toolbar and select Remove Space Before Paragraph or Remove Space After Paragraph.

You can replace instances of the searched terms with a specified term. For example, you can use this feature to replace the word “Deers” with the word “Deer” in the script.

Adobe Story flags words that it does not recognize with a red curly underline. The spelling checker is enabled by default.

1. Move your cursor over the line until you see a red downward arrow. Click the arrow to display the available options. Do one of the following:

   • Select the correct word from the available options.

   • If you do not want Adobe Story to flag the word in the script, select <word> Is OK In This Document.

   • If you do not want Adobe Story to flag the word for any script, select <word> Is OK Always.

   • If you want to turn off the Spell checker, click View > Spell Check.

You can look up definitions or synonyms of words by launching Dictionary.com or Thesaurus.com using the right-click menu.

When you edit a copy of a script outside Adobe Story, such as with MS® Word, you can import the document as the latest version of the script. This obviates the need to manually incorporate the changes.

For screenplays, film scripts, and TV scripts, you can import a script as the latest version of a script. After the import, the state of the document before the import becomes the previous version of the document. You can import the following document types: TXT, PDF, DOC, DOCX, and RTF.