Talk:Story
From Adobe Labs
Post your questions below and the Story team will try their best to update the FAQ
KINDA URGENT
An ability to work offline is essential to me; but following the demo procedures only returns a 'cannot connect to the net' message. Is Offline mode implimented? Please advise... Tom
Northwest Screenwriters Guild Focus Group
About a year ago the Northwest Screenwriters Guild participated in a focus group for Adobe Story. We're really pleased and excited to see what Adobe has imagined for the future of screenwriting and look forward to testing Story when it is available. I particularly like the ability to edit online and offline thanks to AIR.
Mark Martino - Northwest Screenwriters Guild
Revision tracking?
As a longtime producer and scriptwriter, I can tell you from experience that it will be vital to be able to preserve and track edits. In the past I have successfully used MS Word's "track changes" feature. It allowed me to send a draft to the client, let him/her make changes (with track changes turned on), then, when I received the script edit back, to easily see what the revisions were, and keep track of them.
I'm sure that's a basic capability, but it's not always one that's thought of when planning workgroup software. I'm dying to see what it looks like, and to test its' functionality. Another feature which could be put to use would be to link Story to Adobe Premiere (or After Effects, for that matter - I use AE to edit many shortform projects which require multiple script revisions), so that somehow (I'm trying to visualize this as we speak) there could be a view that looks almost like a script - shot list on left, script on right, with rough timing marks running top to bottom. It might be easier to bring a Premiere or AE timeline into Story, but the workflow generally goes Outline, First Draft Script, Addl drafts, Final Draft, Shooting Script, Production Shotlist with Final Script. I think that bringing Story into Premiere or AE would fit the workflow better. Maybe there's a way to make a storyboard view that would link the packages. Just thinking out load as to what features would make this indispensible to the writer/producer.
AVID has tried, and, in my opinion failed miserably at, making their News products fit the production flow of a typical newsroom. They claimed to have made a product which could take the AP scripting side directly into the producer's editing workflow, even enabling the producer to do a rough cut by just dragging shots onto the script from the bin. What they didn't factor in is the inexperience level of the typical news producer: fresh out of school, low salary (sometimes interns), very little production software experience. It really didn't work.
I wish you luck with this product, and look forward to kicking the tires soon. Thanks for your open-mindedness with regard to Alpha software. You are an example the industry should follow.
Joe Bourke B&S Exhibits and Multimedia
