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 […]
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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 […]
Prashanth Udupa (Creator of Scrite) presented a talk on the insights gathered while developing Scrite at Qt Desktop Days 2020 as a part of Akademy 2020 virtual tech conference. The following is a video capture of his talk. Scrite is developed using Qt. Whats very unique about the use of Qt in Scrite is that […]
Much has changed since the first beta of Scrite was released back in April 2020. The video below is a new tutorial on Scrite. It covers the features and functionality available as of Scrite 0.4.16 Beta. This video was prepared for presenting a demo of Scrite at a webinar on “Using Screenwriting Software” hosted by […]
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 […]
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Punyakoti – Screenplay
Writer and Director Ravi Shankar‘s crowdfunded his debut animation film, perhaps the first feature length Sanskrit Animation film, called Punyakoti. Over 100 animators worked across 5 years to bring this film to light. It is currently streaming on Netflix and has received great reviews. Music maestro Illayaraja has given music for this film. The film […]