If you want to view your script broken up into virtual index cards go to View > Index Cards:
This switches the current panel to Index Cards with some of the script text of its particular scene. The amount of text displayed is determined by the number of cards across. The more cards across, the smaller the cards and the less scene text they hold.
Index Cards for Mac Users:
If you want to use different colors for your cards, right-click to choose from a list of colors:
Index Cards for Windows Users:
The text in these cards cannot be edited here; it must be edited in one of the Script view.
However, the Scene Heading may be edited by clicking once in that field and adding and deleting text as necessary.
Index Cards - Summary
Go to View > Index Cards - Summary.
This switches the current panel to Index Cards with the scene summary field displayed. The cards are initially blank so that text can be entered on them for development ideas, notes, sequence or act markers, comments, locations, blocking, or anything else that might be applicable.
Index Cards - Summary for Mac Users:
Index Cards - Summary for Windows Users:
To add a Scene Heading to a card, click once in the box containing the greyed-out Add Scene Heading. Text entered into the Scene Heading field will automatically be copied to the script page at the location of the scene when the mouse is clicked away from that field.
To add summary text to a scene, click once in the box containing the greyed-out Add Scene Summary. Text entered into the body of the card will automatically be copied as a Summary paragraph to the page. Any text written on the page as a Summary paragraph will be copied to the appropriate Summary card.
To edit existing Scene Heading or summary text, click once in the box containing that text and add and delete text as necessary.
Cards Across
Go to View > Cards Across.
This command determines the number of columns of cards you can display. The maximum is nine cards.
Cards Across for Mac Users:
Cards Across for Windows Users:
New Scene
This command is enabled when the active panel is an Index Card panel.
To insert a new scene choose Insert > New Scene from the main menu:
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choose Insert New Scene from the Index Cards context menu:
The new scene is inserted after the currently selected scene. If no scene is selected, the new scene is inserted at the end of the script.
Send to Script
This command copies a scene's summary text into that scene in the script. The text becomes a new action paragraph at the end of the scene.
To copy a scene summary into the scene in the script
- Select the scene from which the summary is to be copied. More than one scene may be copied;
- Right-click or Control + click on one of the cards and from the context menu choose Document > Send to Script;
- Go To Insert > Send to Script;
- On the keyboard press Command + Shift + C (Mac) or Control + Shift + C (Windows).
The summary text for each selected scene becomes an action element after that scene’s scene heading. If there is already content in the scene, the summary information will be added as an action element at the end of the scene.
For information on the shared functions of Index Card panels and Scene view read "Do Index Card panels and Scene View share functions?"
For more information about Index Cards and how this feature differs from the Beat Board, read the following article: