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.he _AVScripter_ demo script
.tl1 _The Wonderful World of AVScripter_
.TL2 By Tom Schroeppel
.tl3 An AVScripter Production
.v FADE IN ON
.v# TOM'S OFFICE - COMPUTER AREA
.V WIDE SHOT - TOM SCHROEPPEL standing by his computer.
.v
.v (Title)
.v TOM SCHROEPPEL
.a TOM:
.A Welcome to AVScripter. The first thing you should notice about the
full-width source file is that, for clarity's sake, I skipped two
lines after the third title line. These extra blank lines are ignored
when the script is printed out.
.V TOM picks up computer printout and waves it in the air.
.A This is because AVScripter automatically discards blank lines at
the top of the page. So if a scene ends at the bottom of one page,
the next page will automatically start with the next non-blank line.
.A FADE IN SFX of printer UNDER.
.v TOM turns and walks off camera.
.v# TOM'S OFFICE - PRINTER AREA
.v CLOSEUP - Printer with two-column script being printed.
.a SFX printer UP.
.v As printing stops, CAMERA PULLS BACK to reveal TOM entering frame
and removing paper from printer. He turns to the camera.
.a TOM:
.A I designed AVScripter to work with any printer. This means no
special installation, no dip-switch flipping, no hassles. You should
be able to get all of AVScripter's features, even _underlining_, with
any printer.
.a
.a You can also print selected pages and multiple copies--even
multiple copies of selected pages!
.v# TOM'S OFFICE - PRINTER AREA
.v CLOSEUP - two-column script.
.V CAMERA TILTS DOWN to bottom margin where there is _no_ "CONTINUED".
.A TOM (VOICE-OVER):
.a If a blank line or a new scene occurs near the bottom of the page,
AVScripter starts a new page, rather than split an audio-video block
across two pages.
.v# TOM'S OFFICE - PRINTER AREA
.v# MEDIUM SHOT - TOM
.a TOM:
.a Of course, you're not locked in to the standard page length and
number of lines per page. You can change either default.
.v CAMERA PULLS BACK and PANS with TOM as he walks over to a stack of
papers by his computer.
.a But here's the real reason I wrote AVScripter. These are the
revisions on a script I recently wrote.
.a _Without AVScripter_--even with one of those on-screen two-column
programs--I would have spent a lot of time jumping back and forth
between columns, re-aligning audio and video lines, renumbering scenes
and pages, looking for page breaks, and adding "CONTINUED" to the
bottoms and tops of pages.
.a _With AVScripter_, I could concentrate on script content, and let
the computer worry about everything else. Writing is a lot more fun
now.
.v He turns to computer and touches a key. An AVScripter source file
with dot commands scrolls up the screen.
.a Here's something else I like.
.v# TOM'S OFFICE - COMPUTER AREA
.v CLOSEUP - Computer screen.
.v Full-width source file scrolls up and stops.
.a TOM (VOICE-OVER):
.A Look at that screen. There's a lot of information on it. A lot
more information than you'd see if it were in two separate columns.
Full-screen text is easier to write, easier to rewrite, and easier to
manipulate. Block moves are simple when you don't have to worry about
keeping your columns aligned or renumbering your scenes or adjusting
your page breaks.
.v# TOM'S OFFICE - COMPUTER AREA
.v MEDIUM SHOT - TOM
.a TOM:
.A If you think AVScripter would be useful to you, please send me the
$40 registration fee. When I receive it, I'll send you the latest
version on disk, a handy command card, free updates for six months,
and complete printed documentation explaining the following advanced
features:
.v# GRAPHICS - Titles echoing audio lines appear on screen as features
are mentioned.
.a Start the program direct from the opening menu, bypassing the
monochrome test and shareware screens.
.a
.a Insert full-width text across both columns anywhere in your script.
.a
.a Print both columns double-spaced, or print the video column
single-spaced and the audio column double-spaced.
.a
.a Change the width of your columns: narrow video/wide audio, vice
versa, or any setting in between.
.a
.a Automatically include the current date in your headers.
.a
.a In place of -VIDEO-/-AUDIO-, write your own column headers, or
choose no headers at all.
.a
.a Automatically send setup commands to your printer.
.a
.a Change page length, number of lines per page, starting scene
number, or starting page number.
.a
.a Insert non-printing comment lines--notes to yourself--inside
your script.
.v FADE TO BLACK