I thought we should have a thread for Fade In Pro users on which to share tips and discuss what we like (or don't like) about it and what we think can be improved.
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Here are the settings of the custom screenplay template I use, which I think looks better and more standard (or at least like most PDFs I've read) than the default one:
Document>Page Layout
- Top: 1.00"
- Bottom: 0.80"
- Left: 1.50"
- Right: 1.00"
Document>More and Continued...
- uncheck "Automatically continue dialogue"
- uncheck "Automatically continue scenes"
- check "Break on sentences"
Document>Page Numbers>Page Numbering...
- uncheck "Show on first page"
Format>Element Styles>Modify Element Style...
- Normal text: as is
- Scene Heading: change "Space before" to 1 (or leave as is if you prefer double space before scene)
- Action: as is
- Character: change "Left indent" to 2.10" (or 2.00")
- Parenthetical: change "Left indent" to 1.50" and "Right indent" to 2.50"
- Dialogue: change "Left indent" to 1.00" and "Right indent" to 1.40"
- Transition: change "Right indent" to 0.00"
- Shot: as is
Font -- I prefer to use Courier 10 BT, looks great both on screen and pdf.
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Importing screenplays.
Today I wanted to check the screenplay of The Apartment and found out some issues in the pdf version I have. So I googled for the screenplay and found an html version that looked good enough. Saving it as formatted text and then importing it into Fade In resulted in a flawless document (before this I tried importing from html (lots of issues), pasting the text directly (lots of issues), importing from html in Screenwriter 6 (some issues), importing from formatted text in Screenwriter 6 (some issues -- rather odd, because Screenwriter 6 usually imports flawlessly from txt if you uncheck "Use most aggressive (...)" in the import dialogue, but not with this file for some reason.)
So, in short: to import a screenplay into Fade In, using a formatted text file seems to work extremely well.
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Here are the settings of the custom screenplay template I use, which I think looks better and more standard (or at least like most PDFs I've read) than the default one:
Document>Page Layout
- Top: 1.00"
- Bottom: 0.80"
- Left: 1.50"
- Right: 1.00"
Document>More and Continued...
- uncheck "Automatically continue dialogue"
- uncheck "Automatically continue scenes"
- check "Break on sentences"
Document>Page Numbers>Page Numbering...
- uncheck "Show on first page"
Format>Element Styles>Modify Element Style...
- Normal text: as is
- Scene Heading: change "Space before" to 1 (or leave as is if you prefer double space before scene)
- Action: as is
- Character: change "Left indent" to 2.10" (or 2.00")
- Parenthetical: change "Left indent" to 1.50" and "Right indent" to 2.50"
- Dialogue: change "Left indent" to 1.00" and "Right indent" to 1.40"
- Transition: change "Right indent" to 0.00"
- Shot: as is
Font -- I prefer to use Courier 10 BT, looks great both on screen and pdf.
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Importing screenplays.
Today I wanted to check the screenplay of The Apartment and found out some issues in the pdf version I have. So I googled for the screenplay and found an html version that looked good enough. Saving it as formatted text and then importing it into Fade In resulted in a flawless document (before this I tried importing from html (lots of issues), pasting the text directly (lots of issues), importing from html in Screenwriter 6 (some issues), importing from formatted text in Screenwriter 6 (some issues -- rather odd, because Screenwriter 6 usually imports flawlessly from txt if you uncheck "Use most aggressive (...)" in the import dialogue, but not with this file for some reason.)
So, in short: to import a screenplay into Fade In, using a formatted text file seems to work extremely well.
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