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Script Row Alignment Problem
Much time has been spent writing a script and aligning Camera, Dialog and Media assets as best as possible within rows to simulate the ability of shots within scenes.
Upon "Publishing", the alignment completely changes, all extra space between dialog entries shrink up and the alignment of items within a shot become totally unrelated to one another when glancing horizontally across the script.
Here is a sample script with 4 little shots within a scene. Each shot has a camera description that relates to the Media column and dialog that should match that shot within the scene as well.
Sample Before Publishing:
Sample after publishing:
The shift of the Dialog lines is not very serious in this example although it is notable. In a longer script the shift becomes much more severe and it then becomes very difficult to make sense of what camera description goes with which dialog and media.
I believe that "shots within scenes" is a feature that is on the development board. I would like to put in a vote for putting this request to the top of the list.
Thanks guys.
Upon "Publishing", the alignment completely changes, all extra space between dialog entries shrink up and the alignment of items within a shot become totally unrelated to one another when glancing horizontally across the script.
Here is a sample script with 4 little shots within a scene. Each shot has a camera description that relates to the Media column and dialog that should match that shot within the scene as well.
Sample Before Publishing:
Sample after publishing:
The shift of the Dialog lines is not very serious in this example although it is notable. In a longer script the shift becomes much more severe and it then becomes very difficult to make sense of what camera description goes with which dialog and media.
I believe that "shots within scenes" is a feature that is on the development board. I would like to put in a vote for putting this request to the top of the list.
Thanks guys.
I’m bummed when I hit "Publish" and everything becomes misaligned
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Inappropriate?Thanks Brent, and we know this needs attention. As you suggest "shots within scenes" is a roadmap item, currently slated for Q2. Getting encouragement from users like you makes us consider potential to accelerate.
We will sooner than that revisit potential for us to have much better what-you-see-is-what-you-get vertical alignment consistency of draft / write mode of script and publish / view mode of script. There have been some technical challenges getting that to work in the past, but perhaps some fresh energy and consideration of new technical tools we have could improve situation.
We are grateful to have dedicated users like you and to have the multifaceted suite of functional modules that have evolved. It is tricky to address the increasingly rich set of requests that we get. But the script module is a foundation of our offering. And we particularly appreciate the most ambitious users of it which certainly includes you. And we do want to have the long and rich scripts you develop in video.Market7 work even better for you. Shots is among a number of ambitions we have to boost the value of our Collaborative Script module.
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