Outlining with Beats in Arc Studio
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="67153"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text]Let’s have a closer look at how beats work in Arc Studio and what you can do with them. Theoretically, a beat can be a small piece of anything that you want to have in your story. Most likely, you will use them for story...
Creating Acts and Beats in Arc Studio
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="67153"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text]Let’s look at the outlining features of Arc Studio a little bit now. With Arc Studio open, be it in the browser or as downloaded desktop app, if you’re in the script view, click on the “Plot board” icon in the upper right corner. The...
Display Preferences In Arc Studio
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="67153"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text]In this article we’re having a look at a pretty boring topic, to be honest. Just going over a bunch of settings usually isn’t the most interesting thing. But, it’s just good to know how you can set up Arc Studio, so that you can...
Writing Offline With Arc Studio
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="67153"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text]Arc Studio is by design meant to write while you’re online. You can write in the browser, or in a downloadable desktop app, but the script generally is stored on the Arc Studio servers. Which is good for backup reasons. It would be very hard...
Using Arc Studio’s Stash To Cut And Save Parts From Your Script
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="67153"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text]Let’s say you want to cut a certain part from your screenplay and you’re pretty sure you’re going to need that at another place at a later point in time. You just want to keep that part in a safe place so that you can...
Tweaking Your Page Count (“Cheating”) With Arc Studio
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="67153"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text]Okay, here is the thing. You need to be really careful about this whole “tweaking” or “cheating” thing. But before I go too mucho into why that is, let me explain what it is first, just in case you’re not familiar with it. “Page count tweaking”,...
Adding Alternate Text in Arc Studio
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="67153"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text]When you’re writing a script, chances are you will go through several draft before you arrive at the final version that you send out to producers. And we will look at how you can deal with different draft versions in Arc Studio in other...
Highlighting Text in Arc Studio
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="67153"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text]Sometimes when you’re writing or reviewing your script, there are certain areas that you will want to highlight. You will not necessarily want to attach a note to them, you just want to see them when you glance over the page. For this, you can use...
Dual Dialogue in Arc Studio
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="67153"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text]In this article we’re going to have a look at dual dialogue in Arc Studio. Just in case you’re fairly new to screenwriting and don’t know what that is, no problem. Dual dialogue means that you put two lines of dialogue in the script right next...
Working with Screenplay Elements in Arc Studio
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="67153"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text]Once you’ve got it figured out how to jump from one screenwriting element to the next in Arc Studio - which will be nothing new to you if you’re already used to using the TAB and ENTER key in other screenwriting applications - you...