Pre-Production Tools

How you choose to run your production is up to you. Some organizations embrace new technologies like scriptwriting software to provide their crew with tools like script editors for film and TV. Others may delay their investment in a modern scriptwriting or pre-production technology and maintain the status quo – if it isn’t broken, why fix it? Well, one good reason is to ensure that your crew’s productivity doesn’t end up on the cutting room floor! 

Bolstered by the advancement of digital distribution technologies, video content, including film and TV, has entered a new renaissance, reaching audiences like never before. According to the latest data from 360 Research Reports the video production industry is projected to grow to $43.1 million USD by 2025.
To keep pace with the industry’s burgeoning growth, freelance script writers to in-house production teams turn to professional scriptwriter and pre-production software like Celtx. Today, we highlight a few of the nifty Celtx features that you might not know about to help your professional production team keep pace with industry growth.

Join the Celtx Team on July 28, 2021 at 8:30 AM PT / 11:30 AM ET / 3:30 PM GMT as we discuss in-house video production with industry professionals Ben Dinsmore of Lockheed Martin Space, and Tommy Bond of Life.Church’s Creative Media Group.

After a year of exceptional challenges, there are few folks who haven’t seen their day-to-day routines and work lives change drastically. Despite this massive shift in how we conduct our lives, people did what they do best: adapt. With the right tools and technology, like a streamlined and easy-to-use video production management software – remote work, collaboration, and documentation can help any in-house team revamp their processes to improve creativity.

The successful completion of a film or video project hinges on two things: a keen eye for detail and constant collaboration. Producing content represents the confluence of many different areas of expertise as well as the management of many different practical assets. Read this article to learn more about the video production process, and how you can help your team organize.

The world of film and video production is all about teamwork. The talented people— both on-screen and behind the scenes— that make up your cast and crew will bring your project to life. No matter what size your shoot is, keeping an organized list of everyone involved is important, but can be challenging. With the new Cast & Crew feature in your Celtx Studio, we set out to create a simple, all-in-one solution for keeping track of each and every person in your production.

Lucentum Productions, a production company based in Alicante, Spain, uses Celtx Pro to write their scripts and organize their shoots. They have more than 20 years of experience producing short-form and long-form audiovisual projects in multiple languages, both nationally and internationally, and Celtx Pro has become an integral part of their workflow.

Many of our Windows desktop users have asked for a dedicated screenplay writing app, and we’re pleased to announce the release of Celtx Screenplay; a standalone progressive web app available for free in the Microsoft Store that gives you the ability to access, edit, and create new Celtx film and TV scripts.

Celtx’s Multi-Column AV Editor was built as a flexible and adaptable solution that supports the pre-production workflow required to keep short-format video projects on-schedule and on-budget.