Bela Lampert

Optioned Screenwriter / Yoga Instructor

Using And Customizing The Final Draft 12 User Interface

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] The Final Draft 12 User Interface When you open up the program, it has a very clean impression, only the basic necessary tools and buttons are there. You’re mainly presented with a blank page, which is what you want. Let’s go through the different areas of...

How To Deal With Revision Colors In Final Draft 12

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="66973"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Setting Up And Using Revisions In Final Draft What Are Revisions? Revisions are essentially script pages that have been changed after the page and scene numbering of a script has already been locked. Since it’s important in the pre-production and production phase of a movie that...

How To Format Dual Dialogue With Final Draft 12

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Formatting Dual Dialogue in Final Draft In this article I'm going to show you how to format dual dialogue in Final Draft. Characters speaking at the same time Oftentimes in your script you have multiple characters in a scene and they're not all waiting for their turn...

Follow These Steps To Write Your Novel With Scrivener’s Snowflake Method Template

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Writing Your Novel With The Scrivener Snowflake Method Template This article describes how to use the snowflake method template for Scrivener. In case you’re not familiar with the snowflake method, it is a method designed by Randy Ingermanson that helps you go from the broad strokes...

How to use Templates with Movie Magic Screenwriter

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Templates in Movie Magic Screenwriter There are several ways you might want to use templates within Movie Magic Screenwriter to save you a lot of writing work. What are templates? But first, let’s have a look at what templates really are. Templates are files that store specific information...

Using the Movie Magic Screenwriter Interface

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Movie Magic Screenwriter Interface This is what the screenwriter interface looks like when you open the program.   Let's look at the different parts of the interface to get a good overview of what each of the elements do and how you can change the way Movie...

Spell Checking and other Editing Preferences in Fade In

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Fade In Editing Preferences In this article, I’ll show you the editing preferences of Fade In and how they can help you speed up your writing. To open the dialog go to “Fade In - Preferences” and go to the “Editing” tab. Autocomplete typing Choose whether you want...

Automatic Backup and other General Preferences in Fade In

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Automatic Backup and other General Preferences in Fade In Fade In General Preferences In this article I’ll show you the general preferences of Fade In that may help you speed up your writing workflow or avoid losing your precious work in case of a data crash. To...

How to handle Reports in Fade in for Pre-Production and Production

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] How to handle Reports in Fade in for Pre-Production and Production In this article I’ll show you how you can generate reports in Fade In that will help you with your script breakdown or to give you some statistics about your script you may actually...

How to handle Revisions in Fade In during Pre-Production and Production

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Revisions in Fade In If you move into the rewriting and pre-production phase with your project, Fade In has several tools that can help you with that and revisions are one of them. Revisions are necessary when certain lines, scenes or even pages are changed,...