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Actor Highlighting
Automatically highlight character lines with the tap of a button.
What is Actor Highlighting?
No need to scramble at table reads anymore. Automatically highlight your lines with the tap of a button. Built for actors but customized for sound mixers, Scriptation automatically highlights character lines with the tap of a button. Once you import a script, Scriptation automatically tracks and generates characters for the Actor Highlighting function. Tap the Actor button on the Top Menu to display
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Why didn't my Automated Actor Highlight notes transfer?
My actors were highlighted. I transfered my notes and now the highlights are gone. If you transferred your notes and noticed characters that were highlighted are no longer highlighted in your new draft, don't panic. This is normal. Automated Actor Highlights are purposely not recognized as annotations, and are not transferred as traditional markups are. After transferring, you will have to re-toggle on your Actor highlighted characters. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/web
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Why isn't Actor Highlighting or Character Names working?
Having issues with Character Names being recognized? Is Actor Highlight not working? First, let's look at the Formatting. The Actor Highlight feature uses an algorithm that recognizes the general industry standard of Character Name and Dialogue formatting. Since Scriptation deals with PDFs and doesn't get the Character / Dialogue meta data from the screen writing program, the app analyzes the margins of the document and then applies
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