I believe that would be me. I use treepad for some writing, but not
for screenwriting outside of keeping track of notes and other
research for screenwriting. Treepad doesn't do any formatting for you
which is the main point of a screenwriting package. The packages I
have used are Movie Magic Screenwriter and Final Draft. Several new
versions of both have gone by since I had the latest version of
either, they tend, in my experience, to alternately surpass each
other in quality and usefulness of features, so I don't know which
one is tops right now. I had no problem using either with Window
Eyes, though I haven't used any of them with a version of WE since 6
since I have been doing almost entirely prose writing for some time
now and have only recently been interested in getting back into
screenwriting projects. Not much help, I know, but I believe both
have fully functional demos that allow you to do everything but save
and print more than a couple of pages with a watermark indicating the
pages were printed using a demo version.
There are other packages out there, but those are the ones I know of
and are generally considered tops in the industry. There is also an
open source package called celtx at www.celtx.org that is becoming
more and more popular, but I haven't been able to get it to work with
Window Eyes. I read at least one post by someone online that claimed
that he got it to work with WE, but was never able to get in contact
with the person to find out how he got it to work. It is possible
that the problems I had with it were because of system resources and
that someone using a better processor, more than 1 Gb of RAM, and/or
an OS beyond XP might be able to use it with WE, but I can't say for
sure. Every once and a while I search Google for something like Celtx
accessibility for blind users and see if anything new has popped up.
If you can use this one it would likely be the best since the basic
setup is freeware while the other packages are all in the range of
just under or over $200 depending on sales and specials. Celtx
paid features include things like collaboration tools that give you
a certain amount of storage on a celtx server and anyone working on a
project can access it via password and make edits and updates and the
software can be set up to make changes universal throughout things
like the script itself, shooting schedule, call sheets and all of the
lists and documents that one might use for a project from a small A/V
project to a video game design, to a full length feature shoot. If
you can't tell, I really want to use this software. I am currently
working on a project with a partner who lives several hundred miles
away, so the collaboration features would be absolutely wonderful if
I could only get the software to work. Since it is free, you can
always try it out and see if you have better luck than I have had so
far. Let me know if you do.
HTH,
Chris
At 03:55 PM 7/29/2010, Petty, Richard wrote:
Some time ago I believe someone on this list mentioned they used
screen writing software. I now have need of that kind of software
for developing audio video content. If someone did indeed write that
they were using the software with WE, I would appreciate it if that
person (or anyone else) could write with the name of the accessible
software package. By the way, the person may have indicated they
used Treepad--in case that jogs anyone's memory. Thanks to all.
Richard Petty
ILRU - Independent Living Research Utilization
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