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 […]
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Articles are published by people who contribute to the development, marketing and adoption of Scrite.
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 […]
With version 0.4.11, we have added a new feature in Scrite called Scriptalay. This feature provides you access to a small but growing repository of screenplays that you can download from and study. To open Scriptalay, ensure that you are connected to the Internet and click on its button on the toolbar. Wait for Scrite […]
Minimum Requirements
Hardware Requirements Display Resolution of your monitor should be such that it can support window size of 1366 x 768 or higher. Otherwise Scrite will show a minimum functionality UI that is suitable for reading screenplays – not as much for editing. RAM of 8GB or more Any Intel processor with 2 or more cores. […]
Prashanth recently had a chance to present Scrite at Adarsh Eshwarappa’s Screenplay Writing workshop conducted by Sandalwood Geleyara Balaga USA. In addition to presenting Scrite, Prashanth also had a chance to sit in and observe the participants use Scrite to write their first screenplays as a part of the workshop. One feedback from the participants […]
We heard from many writers that one of the first things they do while writing a screenplay is to create scenes an simply write their one-line description. The way to do this in Scrite is to switch to the Structure tab, start creating scenes and write synopsis in the structure. However, once we switch to […]
IMSDB is a great place to look for screenplays and study them, Since version 0.3.4, we have had the ability to import existing screenplays into Scrite. You can also find an article on this website where we have described in detail how you can import a screenplay from a text file downloaded from IMSDB. A […]
Some of our users wrote to us that they would want the ability to layout scenes in the structure canvas. Up until 0.4.4 beta, users had to manually place scenes in the structure canvas. With 0.4.5 beta, users can use any of the 4 built in layout engines. Suppose that you have a screenplay with […]
Ever since we had Surya Vasishta join our team as a UI/UX contributor, he has been churning out some amazing ideas for improving the UI of Scrite. One area which was in the works for a few weeks now was the Settings Dialog box. The previous settings dialog box was non-hierarchical and confusing. Surya designed […]