Adobe Story What’s New

Outline your ideas, write scripts quickly with automatic formatting, and collaborate online. Plan and schedule fast-paced video projects with powerful preproduction software. Organize production with reports and leverage script metadata in post-production.

Plot your next video production with Adobe Story software, the essential scriptwriting, scheduling, and preproduction solution that integrates with your post-production workflow. Adobe Story is ideal for screenwriters, writing teams, first assistant directors, production managers, and editors who want a powerful, full-featured, collaborative solution that can help save time and money during production. As you write a script, Adobe Story automatically applies industry-standard formatting, letting you concentrate on your narrative. Adobe Story also creates metadata from script elements such as characters, locations, and times of day. This enables your script to become the blueprint for your production—you can leverage it for production schedules and reports, and for post-production in Adobe Premiere® Pro CS6 software.

New features in Adobe Story help you get your ideas onscreen more quickly and efficiently than ever before. Save time writing for different script formats by using customizable script templates. Organize your production with scheduling that’s synchronized to your script. Scheduling features let you generate reports for call sheets, camera cards, costume continuity, and more; and shooting scripts help you plan studio productions with camera lines, numbers, and moves. Collaborate with your team by sharing entire projects and accessing them wherever you have an Internet connection.

Adobe Story is available as Adobe Story Free, full-featured scriptwriting software available at no charge at Adobe.com; as Adobe Story Plus, which brings you all the scriptwriting power of Adobe Story along with collaborative writing, scheduling, and preproduction tools; and as Adobe Story CS6, an offline desktop application available with Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium, Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 software. Each version of Adobe Story can be used on its own, or team members can collaborate using different versions.

New features in Adobe Story—such as production reports generated from script metadata—help streamline scriptwriting, scheduling, and preproduction.

Adobe® Story

Tell your story and organize preproduction with powerful toolsContents

Top new features of Adobe Story 2

Project sharing (Adobe Story Plus only) 2

Integrated scriptwriting and scheduling (Adobe Story Plus and Adobe Story CS6) 2

Scheduling (Adobe Story Plus and Adobe Story CS6) 3

Production scheduling reports (Adobe Story Plus and Adobe Story CS6) 3

Customizable script templates 4

Shooting scripts (Adobe Story Plus and Adobe Story CS6) 4

Tagger (Adobe Story Plus and Adobe Story CS6) 5

Predefined character, set, and actor lists (Adobe Story Plus only) 5

Dialog numbering 6

Which version of Adobe Story is right for you? 6

About Adobe Systems Incorporated 7

2Adobe Story What’s New

Top new features•Projectsharing(Page2)

•Integratedscriptwritingandscheduling(Page2)

•Scheduling(Page3)

•Productionschedulingreports(Page3)

•Customizablescripttemplates(Page4)

•Shootingscripts(Page4)

•Tagger(Page5)

•Predefinedcharacter,set,andactorlists(Page5)

•Dialognumbering(Page6)

Scripts you import from Final Draft, Movie Magic Screenwriter, or Microsoft® Word can also take full advantage of the robust toolset in Adobe Story. Import script metadata directly into Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 with your media, and search for video elements such as scenes, characters, and locations to help edit video faster and simplify media management.

Adobe Story Plus adds fully integrated production scheduling and reporting tools that help you stay on time and on budget. Create screenplays, shooting scripts, schedules, and production reports. Manage production revisions and sync changes to the schedule, eliminating rework. You can write and plan your production in the same software, and your production reports and schedules can easily stay in sync with the current version of your script.

Top new features of Adobe Story

Project sharing (Adobe Story Plus only)Keep team members involved in every stage of the writing and planning process by sharing projects online. Share an entire project or an individual document with your team. Keep everyone informed with change and comment notifications. While documents can be shared only by using Adobe Story Plus, team members using Adobe Story Free can edit or leave comments, as long as you’ve assigned them a role that gives them editing and commenting rights.

Integrated scriptwriting and scheduling (Adobe Story Plus and Adobe Story CS6)Spend less time reporting and more time planning by creating schedules directly from your script. You have the flexibility to create a schedule from a single script or a block of scripts.

Share not just scripts, but entire projects, including schedules and reports. Assign rights such as co-author or reviewer so that each team member can contribute feedback at a level consistent with their role on the project.

When you create a new schedule, you can choose the project, scripts, and scenes to include. This makes it possible to generate schedules for parts of a production or groups of scenes.

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Scheduling (Adobe Story Plus and Adobe Story CS6)Help make production more efficient by organizing your script’s scene elements into a schedule using an industry-standard stripboard view. You don’t have to type a list of scene elements for a schedule, because you work from a list of scene elements that Adobe Story automatically builds and tracks as you write a script. You can group scenes, add day breaks and banners, and list resources such as props. You can also generate multiple reports directly from the schedule. A schedule is synchronized to its source scripts, so when the scripts are revised, you can use the Sync button to easily update the schedule to match the revised scripts.

Organize scene elements into a schedule using a standard stripboard view, and easily keep the schedule synchronized to the scripts by clicking the Sync button.

Production scheduling reports (Adobe Story Plus and Adobe Story CS6)Simplify on-set management and help keep production on time and on budget by managing all relevant information as editable production reports in your project. Generate a wide range of reports, including call sheets, camera cards, and costume continuity. As with scheduling, these reports take advantage of the script metadata that’s tracked by Adobe Story as you write your script, so Adobe Story is ready to generate an up-to-date production scheduling report whenever you or your production manager need one.

Sync button

Stay organized on the set by generating production scheduling reports on demand.

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Customizable script templatesCraft your story the way you want, and help save time writing scripts in different standard or specialized formats. Need a screenplay in UK television format? Simply choose that template; Adobe Story reformats the script accordingly. If the template you want isn’t listed, simply edit a script template to meet the requirements of your production, and save the customized script template for use in future projects. Customizable script templates are available in all versions of Adobe Story.

Shooting scripts (Adobe Story Plus and Adobe Story CS6)Save time planning production shoots by creating a shooting script that can specify shot sizes and shot numbers. Place a shot element anywhere within a scene. You can switch between script view and the shooting script at any time.

Modify a script template to fit your needs in the Change Template dialog box, where you have detailed control over script formatting. This example shows how you can format scene headings by editing attributes such as alignment, spacing, and indents.

The Camera Shot dialog box lets you easily insert different types of shots into your script.

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Tagger (Adobe Story Plus and Adobe Story CS6)Prepare productions and budgets more precisely. When you’ve added tags to a script, those tags are included in schedules you generate from your script. Tagging just once for both the script and schedule helps save you time.

As you inspect a schedule, tags entered for a scene in the script appear in the Tags panel.

Predefined character, set, and actor lists (Adobe Story Plus only)Preserve the cohesion of your story by staying on top of characters, actors, and sets throughout a project. As you write, Adobe Story automatically suggests character and set names from predefined lists, reducing the chance of errors. These lists make it easier to maintain and track script elements, and you can add to the lists at any time. Because you can move existing lists to new projects, they are especially valuable for maintaining consistency when writing episodic works.

Tags panel

Preserve continuity more easily by creating lists of characters, actors, and sets that you can use across entire projects.

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Dialog numberingQuickly identify dialog for faster voice-recording sessions by sequentially numbering each line of dialog. Dialog numbers that you apply are sequentially assigned to the dialog elements in a script from the beginning, or you can set dialog numbering to restart at 1 on every page.

Which version of Adobe Story is right for you?Choose the version of Adobe Story that’s optimized for you:

Adobe Story Free. Available free at Adobe.com, Story Free provides screenwriters with a powerful set of scriptwriting tools, available anywhere you have an Internet connection. Tell your story more easily by using customizable script templates, multicolumn scripts, and the ability to import from and export to Final Draft, MovieMagic Screenwriting, or Microsoft Word.

Adobe Story Plus. A complete collaborative scriptwriting, scheduling and preproduction solution, Adobe Story Plus helps keep scriptwriters and production managers on time and on budget with integrated reporting and sharing tools that use the story metadata that’s generated automatically during the scriptwriting process. Adobe Story Plus is ideal for screenwriting teams and professionals who work with scripts in production and post-production workflows. You also have the choice to work online anywhere you have an Internet connection, or offline using the Adobe Story Plus desktop application. Collaborate with your team by sharing and accessing entire projects online, even on your iPhone. (Adobe Story Plus is also included with membership in Adobe Creative Cloud.)

Adobe Story CS6. Available as an offline desktop application with Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium, Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, Adobe Story CS6 is an integrated, professional solution that helps save you time and money through scriptwriting, scheduling, and production. Streamline your post-production workflow by using Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 software to leverage script metadata from Adobe Story CS6.

FeatureAdobe Story

FreeAdobe Story

CS6Adobe Story

Plus

Script import and export x x x

Auto-completion tools x x x

Customizable script templates x x x

Film and AV scripts x x x

Multicolumn scripts x x x

Dialog numbering x x x

Act breaks x x x

Dialog numbers

Save time locating specific lines of dialog by using dialog numbering.

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Expected release dateSecond quarter 2012

For more informationProduct details: story.adobe.com

System requirementsWindows®•1GHzorfasterprocessor

•Microsoft®Windows®XPwithServicePack3,WindowsVista®,orWindows7

•512MBofRAMormorerecommended

•SVGA1024x768display

• InternetExplorer8.xor9.x,Firefox3.xor4.x,orChrome9.x

•512KbpsorfasterInternetconnectionrequired

•BrowserSSLsupport,JavaScriptsupport,andcookiesmustbeenabled

•Adobe®Flash®Player10.1softwarerequired

Mac OS•1GHzorfasterprocessor

•MacOSXv10.5.7orv10.6.x

•512MBofRAMormorerecommended

•SVGA1024x768display

•Safari5.x,Firefox3.xor4.x,orChrome9.x

•512KbpsorfasterInternetconnectionrequired

•BrowserSSLsupport,JavaScriptsupport,andcookiesmustbeenabled

•AdobeFlashPlayer10.1softwarerequired

Language versions•EnglishUS

•EnglishUK

•French

•German

• Italian

•Spanish

FeatureAdobe Story

FreeAdobe Story

CS6Adobe Story

Plus

History of changes x x x

Side-by-side script comparison x x x

Easy script navigation in Outline View x x x

Properties panel x x x

Online access to scripts x x

Edit shared scripts x x x

iPhone access to scripts x x x

Integrates with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 x x x

Multi-location scenes x x

Edit offline x x

Breakdown reports x x

Shooting scripts x x

Scheduling x x

Production scheduling reports x x

Predefined character and set lists x x

Image import into AV/multicolumn scripts x x

Manage production revisions x x

Tagger x x

Track and review changes x x

Project sharing x

Assign roles and editing rights x

Email notifications x

SFTP based backup and recovery x

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