September 8, 2005 –St. John's, Canada - Greyfirst Corp. released a new version of Celtx; the digital pre-production software used to create Video, Film and TV content.
Celtx is a unique and innovative application that for the first time enables people engaged in the pre-production of a video, film or TV project to work in a digital environment – write scripts, perform breakdowns and collaborate with others. Built on top of the award winning Firefox technologies, Celtx is an open source and open standards software application that has rapidly established an international following, with thousands of dedicated users located in over 50 countries around the globe.
“We’ve been busy all summer working on the next release of Celtx. We hope it shows!”, Co-Founder Mark Kennedy stated. “We’ve paid close attention to our community of users, adding only what was asked for, including a vastly improved editor and file management features. We’ve also added a new database view to help people organize their film and video related media.”
Some of the new features in this version include:
Keep your fingers where they’re supposed to be!
A new, and much improved editor that provides a WYSIWYG experience has been added. The editor now supports things like page breaks, bold-italics-underlining, plain and formatted text editing with associated hotkeys and right click contextual 'cut-copy-paste’.
Suspenders and a Belt?
In response to the many requests… users will now be able to save their Celtx projects to a location of their own choosing. Users still have the ability to do remote back-ups to the Celtx server, but can now also save their projects to any location using standard file save dialogue.
Celtx has a Database?
Breakdown information, including any text and media mark-ups, are now displayed inside a database view where the information can be "sliced and diced" by the user, allowing the project data to be organized by purpose.
Everyone is Invited to the Party
Celtx now includes every breakdown category. We have also tweaked the colour code system to match the industry norm.
Scene by Scene Navigator
The new left hand Scene Navigator, which now includes scene descriptions, has new icon driven ‘move scene up/down’ and ‘delete scene’ options. Double click behavior has been added.
New Face to the World
In addition to all of the above, we’ve made several improvements to the Celtx GUI, including the addition of a 'Sidebar' icon that enables two Editor screen views with zoom capability. As well, there are ‘drag enabled’ splitters between column elements in the download project dialog, better layout of the editor toolbar icons, and a smaller ‘icon/text’ option for the project toolbar.
Celtx core features include:
• Writing, importing, editing and publishing scripts using standard industry formatting
• Support for adding media - including sound files, video clips and digital pictures
• Powerful collaboration features, allowing team members to work together over the Internet
• Adherence to open standards, ensuring users have unfettered access to their data
The Technology
Celtx is built using Firefox's XUL Mozilla application framework and runs “inside” the Mozilla Firefox browser. Celtx works on all major operating systems - Mac, Linux and Windows. The application uses a semantic web compliant RDF database and XML file formatting.
Availability
Celtx is available for download from the Celtx website for free, under an open source license.
About Celtx
Celtx is based on next generation semantic software, where the Internet is at the forefront of development. Celtx enables people to collaborate during the creative process using a common platform. Celtx works on all major Operating Systems - Mac, Linux and Windows. Celtx uses an open-source friendly business model and adheres to open software standards.
About Greyfirst
Greyfirst Corp., the independent software company behind Celtx, develops core Internet technologies using the Mozilla Application Framework and then fosters their growth into successful applications. Greyfirst's technical expertise lies in the development of semantic web-based technologies and in the design of advanced databases. The Greyfirst Network of software includes: Celtx, Pixtore, iNewsNetwork, MediaJam, and the application framework tool, Tadpole. For more information, visit GREYFIRST.com
