Garbage!

Wow, i’ve been using the free desktop version of Celtx for at least 10 years and always found it a great program — robust and packed with features. However, Celtx stopped supporting it recently and I thought after all these years, why not buy the new Celtx Script desktop version? I figured the company more than earned the $20 the program costs...

BIG MISTAKE! I’ve been using the program for about two hours and already loathe it! For some unexplicable reason, they’ve stripped this new *paid” version of all the features that made the *free* version so great! For starters, on the scene menu on the left, you no longer can move scenes around, or delete them altogether! In the body of the script, you can highlight text with your cursor, yet can’t drag it to another part of the document like you could in the previous version — and in just about any other text editor available! That means you have to copy/paste everything, and the program does a terrible job of keeping track of changes. Delete a scene and the blank header remains, unless you go in again and delete the *empty” header, too. Paste a new scene, and the program can’t keep track of the numbering. You can’t preview your script’s pdf like before. Gone are the master catalogues, the scene cards, the timer, even the ablity to mark dialogue as overlapping! You can export a script as .txt anymore. God knows what other stupid changed they made that I haven’t run into yet. Why? WHY?!

ALSO, you’ll be forced to import all your old .celtx files and convert them into whatever new file they’re using. Ditto for the online version of Celtx. I spent an hour reimporting and reorganizing every single project I had in my Celtx account becasue every time I imported an old file, it would imprt 10 versions of it, which I then had to manually delete…

If Celtx wants to be taken seriously as a viable software company for professional filmmakers, they better fix these issues and fast. The experience with this terrible software really doesn’t inspire me to go an pay for their online “Studio” service. Very dissapointed.

Triviameister about celtx script, v3.01