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Celtx 2.0

NEW FEATURES

Celtx Studios

We are pleased to introduce Celtx Studios, a set of web services designed to work with the Celtx software. Your Celtx Studio provides:

Web Based Storage and Access to Your Media Projects
Media Projects created in Celtx can be saved straight to your Celtx Studio. You can also open your Media Project from your Celtx Studio, and work straight from your Studio, or save the project locally.

Collaboration
Sharing Projects with other users of the Celtx Studios is a click away.

Your Celtx Studio provides granular access to every script, and every file, and every form, in every version, of every project. You can do side-by-side comparisons of different versions, and open any version in your Celtx software to revert to any previous state.

Create a private, web view of your project for collaborators, producers, financers or anyone else with whom you want to share the project.

The Celtx Studios are FREE as we run a short commercial beta. After the beta period is over, the Celtx Studios will be offered at a $50 PER YEAR subscription.

Celtx Client Changes

Toolbox
Extensions/Add-Ons

We have enabled extensions in the Celtx software. A 'Toolbox' icon in the main toolbar accesses a new Toolbox page on our main web site, where Add-Ons can be downloaded to customize the Celtx software.

Non-English dictionaries are available for those writing and working in several languages.

We have also added a Developers page to the Toolbox site on Celtx.com. We welcome any developers who would like to add their own Add-Ons. At the moment, we can only accept Free Add-Ons, but we'll soon be introducing a Pay service as well.

Notifier Ribbon
We have added a notifier ribbon to the bottom of the application window. This is to ensure that people opening Celtx directly from a Celtx file continue to receive the Splash Page Notices. No screen size is lost in the editor function when the Notifier Ribbon is closed, which it is by default. The Notifier Ribbon will display the latest Community News and Project of the Week. It will also provide Notice of any new Releases of the Celtx Software.

Interactive Notice Tool
We have also added a small interactive notice to the Celtx Toolbar. The individual notices are delivered by the Celtx Server, allowing us to tailor the Notice to specific issues as the need arises. The default Notice will provide a direct link to a dedicated Help page.

Direct Saves to Studio
A new option, added to 'File' in the main menu, enables a direct 'Save to Studio'. This replaces the cumbersome 'Upload' process that was accessed from the Web Services. Selecting 'Save to Studio' will save the Project straight to your Celtx Studio.

Direct Open From Studio
An 'Open from Studio' option has been added to the 'File' menu. Selecting 'Open from Studio' will bring you to your Celtx Studio. After opening your Projects folder in your Celtx Studio, you can select 'Edit' from the Studio Project toolbar to open a Project directly in your Celtx Software. Subsequent Saves of the Project will get Saved straight to the Studio.

Save Status Bar
We added a new "Save Status" dialog. Located in the very bottom of the application window, this status bar will confirm saves, providing a date and time stamp as well as confirmation on whether the Save was made to your own computer (local) or to your Celtx Studio.

Note to MAC Users

MAC Panther (10.3) Users
Celtx Version 2.0 will NOT work on Mac OS X 10.3.x (or earlier Mac systems) This new version of Celtx (v.2.0) is not compatible with the MAC OS X 10.3.0 operating system. On moving Celtx to the new Firefox 3.0 code base, we are no longer able to support 10.3 (or earlier) versions of the MAC operating system.

Project Central

Uploading Projects to Project Central has been simplified by introducing a new direct Upload feature on the Project Central homepage.

GENERAL

Celtx Client Upgrades

Moved to Firefox 3.*
We upgraded the underlying code of the Celtx Software to the newest version of Firefox (v. 3.*). A big thanks to the awesome community of Firefox developers and to the Mozilla organization for producing such a fantastic open source product.

Implemented TraceMonkey
Upgrading Celtx to the Firefox 3 code has enabled us to use the new TraceMonkey Javascript engine, resulting in much faster loads times, and better behaviour for all features.

Moved to new Sunbird 0.8 code
We have also upgraded the Celtx Calendar and Production Schedule modules to the new version of the open source Sunbird calendar application, resulting in an improved user interface for both, and greater stability. A big thanks too to the Sunbird developer team.