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Marking up scripts, customizing annotations, and organizing notes.
Inserting Photos and Images into your script
Maybe you have reference photos for a specific shot or a floor plan for a set. With Scriptation, you can insert them into your script.
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Highlighting Tool vs Highlighting with the Marker
Diving into the two ways to highlight your scripts.
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What's the difference between Deleting or Erasing annotations?
How to use the Eraser Tool or Delete annotations.
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I can't find some of my Annotation Tools
Some of my tools are missing from the Annotation Toolbar.
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How do I use Sticky Notes?
With Scriptation's Stickies feature, you can tap to insert collapsible notes within your script.
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How can I draw lines, arrows and shapes?
How to draw lines, arrows, circles, and squares in your script.
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Free Write or Draw
Use a stylus or your finger to write or draw with the ink and highlighter tools. Using Scriptation's Drawing or Freeform Highlight tool, you can write or draw just like a pen and paper, using a stylus or your finger, or, on macOS, your mouse. The Drawing (Pen) tool delivers a solid line, much like ink. The **Freeform H
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What are Saved Annotations and how do I use them?
Saved Annotations allow you to create saved notes so you don't have to re-write things over and over again Saved Annotations is a powerful Industry Pro feature for saving custom stamps, drawings, markings, shapes, text notes, and images/photos for easy use throughout your script. You can create a Saved Annotation with any marking! Below as an example, we have the
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How to Undo and Redo Actions
How to go back an action or move forward.
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How do I use Stamps, and create Custom Stamps?
Scriptation comes loaded with many Stamps, plus the freedom to design your own! Inserting Stamps Stamps can be found on the Annotation Toolbar by tapping the Stamp icon. Then, by tapping on any of the existing stamp designs, the selected stamp automatically loads to the center of your page. Once inserted, you can drag t
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How to use Siri to dictate notes
Can I use Siri to dictate notes with Scriptation? Yes! For iOS and Mac users, Apple's Siri can be used to automatically turn your voice into text. Siri can be used with Scriptation's Text Boxes, Sticky Notes, as well as the connected note of any Annotation. Let's start by using Siri with a Text Box. On the Annotation Bar, tap the TEXT icon. Then tap a spot in your scri
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Typing Notes into your Script with Text Boxes
Bad handwriting? No problem. We've got Text Boxes! The Text tool can be found on the Annotation Bar, and allows you to enter a text box anywhere within your script. Start by tapping the TEXT icon. Then tap a spot in your script where you'd like the text to be. The keyboard will automatically load on mobile devices. From the keyboard
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What are Bookmarks and how can I use them?
Bookmarking pages really helps to navigate through quickly. Bookmarking the top of every scene, or any specific page allows you to easily find that spot again.
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How to add audio clips to your script
Want to capture sound or make a recording within your script? It's easy, with Audio Clips. Using Audio Clips is a great way to take notes in a meeting when information is coming in faster than you can write it down. It's also a terrific way to make a quick reference recording of sounds or music. And the best part... Audio clips move with all of your other notes to your new script when you use the Transfer function.
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Outline: Viewing and Searching your Annotations
A fully searchable list of all your Annotations? Welcome to Outline. With your script marked up, and all of your notes taken, it really helps to be able to see all of your notes in one place. It makes things even more efficient to be able to search those notes using keywords. Start by tapping the Outline icon (the open book) on the Top Menu. In the dropdown menu, the left tab shows the Bookmarks Outline, and the right tab shows the
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How do I create Color Presets?
Looking to create Color Presets? It's easy with the Style Palette. While marking up documents, you might want to use a color coding system to manage your notes, or maybe you just like a certain aesthetic. While using Annotation tools such as text marking, typing, free draw
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How do I use the Text Marking tools? (Highlight, Underline, Squiggle and Strikethrough)
Let's learn how to use Highlight, Underline, Wavy Underline, and Strikethrough. There are 4 text marking tools on the Annotation Bar. Let's take a look at each one.
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How to hyperlink to audio, video, websites, and pages
Creating a hyperlink within your script makes connecting to content a breeze. With Scriptation, it's easy to create a link to another page within your script, as well as any outside content like a website, cloud file, audio clip, or reference video. To get started creating a link, select the script text that you'd like to link to. Then on the pop up bar that appears, tap the Link icon.
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How to copy and paste annotations?
Once annotations are made, it's easy to duplicate them with copy and paste. You may want to simply make a copy of an Annotation. Or you perhaps you performed a Note Transfer and you have Deleted Annotations that you'd like to rescue from an earlier draft. Start by tapping any Annotation you'd like to Copy. Then from the pop-up bar, tap Copy. (The windo
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Using Scribble on iPadOS 14
Speed up your note taking with Scribble, the handwriting to text converter in iPadOS 14. Scriptation is fully compatible with Scribble, Apple's powerful new feature which delivers a whole new way to work with handwritten notes. Users can now to write in any text field — where it will automatically be converted to typed text — making annotation tools like [Text Box](/en/article/typing-notes-into-your-script-wit
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How can I use Attached Notes?
What are Attached Notes, and how can I use them? Attached Notes are user-added notes that are connected to any annotation, such as Shapes, Stamps, Images, Audio Recordings, and more. The power of Attached Notes allows you to keep certain notes hidden, as well as keep your script from getting cluttered. The Attached Note lives inside a discreet yellow sticky, and just tapping on it presents your notes. 