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A website I mentioned as a source for free music also created a storyboard maker which might be of interest - an online script to generate a storyboard template based on your selections.

http://www.incompetech.com/beta/linedGr ... board.html
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That's a nice idea!
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Yeah, after I posted I noticed he has several more generators for other stuff.
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It is a nice idea, but I still prefer something like celtx, free, open source and cross-platform for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
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...I love celtx too! Although it's oriented to construct "literary" scripts and I always have need a good app to can write properly "technical scripts" (I don't know if you call it so), you know, that structurated pages where you write a more detailed script with a description & timming of each plane, the camera info/effects and dialogue/sounds into their respective camps... well, just like in a storyboard but with words intead draws (although it can contain draws too), it's more like a instruction manual of the story, I do it actually in MS Word using tables but finally it can result in a madness as number of pages grow, so the question is... do you know is such an app could exists? I'd be soOo nice :)
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Yes, but it's not cheap, ToonBoom Storyboard (900 USD). Judging from the presentation videos, it seems to be very powerful, though.

Perhaps a better solution is this software (free for students and personal home use, available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Mac OS 9):
http://www.atomiclearning.com/storyboardpro

It is meant for video editors, but you can use it for animation storyboarding as well, by drawing images and use the still button, and replacing that with a finished clip into production. I guess it is fine for learning purposes, but beyond that, I wouldn't use it.
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oOoh, yeah... I knew about that and you don't know how happy I'd be with it... Anyway I think that when Moho implement sound tracks we'll have something similar for only 99erhmm... 199$ :roll:

But well, when I was talking about "Technical Script" (please, someone tell me how you call it in english!) I was reffering to something like this:

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...No audio-visual content but only words to get all the original script ready to be "filmed" ...I like that "over paper" plannification method but sometimes it's a little hard to do propertly in a simple Text Editor like MS Word and well, that's for I'd love some app (specially if it be the more similar to celtx :)) specially designed to facilitate such task...
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I could be wrong here (it's happened before), but I think the process you illustrated is called "slugging" in English. That is, timing out each scene, allocating sections of soundtrack and so on. If someone else knows different, please say -- I'd hate to be spreading incorrect information about.
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