![]() ![]() This breaks the connection without deleting the card itself on the Beat Board. In order to delete the cards from the Outline Editor, select all the cards on the Beat Board, right click on one of them and select “Remove Outline Goal”. In order to demonstrate that I’m going to delete all the cards from the Outline Editor first, and then I’m giong to delete the content of the screenplay.īecause this is most likely the situation that you’ll find yourself in when you start outlining. Okay, now we’ve looked at how to create beats on the Beat Board, now let’s see how they work together with the Outline Editor. Or, you right-click on the connection itself and choose “Disconnect”. ![]() To break a connection you can, again, drag one card on top of the other, or just select the cards and choose “Disconnect” from the right-click menu. Right-click on the connection itself and choose a color from the menu. With a line, an arrow, or a double arrow.Īlso, you can give the connection a color. You can choose, how you want to connect the cards. ![]() And the connection is automatically established.Īlternatively you can select two or more cards and choose “Connect” via the right-click menu. If you want to create those, just take one card and drag it on top of the other. You also see that some cards have connections because they belong together in some way. If you want to create section beat cards, like here in the example with the Acts, you only use the title area of the card and leave the rest blank.Ĭards can be resized as you wish, so you could also make them quite long and thin, for example, which can be useful for sections that have a lot of cards.īut anyway, this is just a matter of preference and style. If you want to place images on the beat board, right click and select “New Beat from Image…”. In order to create new beat cards, right click and select “New Beat” or just double click on an empty space on the Beat Board.Įvery beat can hold a title and some text or image content. You also see that you can use beat cards for sections so to speak, like here with the Acts and for outline elements that contain some information, like all the rest of the cards. There are no more structure points like in version 11 because they are not necessary anymore. You already see sample beats here on the Beat Board. You can make the Outline Editor bigger or smaller if you click drag at the bottom edge. We’ll look at how that exactly works in a second. You get two rows to place outline elements here, Outline 1 and Outline 2. The first major difference that you see is that the story map from version 11 has been replaced with the so-called Outline Editor. Just go to Help – Sample Scripts to open it. Just click that and the beat board opens up.įor purposes of this demonstration I’m using the Final Draft sample script that is included. If you open up Final Draft 12 there should be a Beat Board button right on the toolbar. So, let’s see what the version 12 Beat Board can do, no matter if you’ve worked with version 11 before or not. Working With The Beat Board And Outline Editor In Final Draft 12įinal Draft 12 has some major updates on the beat board and it works slightly different than in version 11. ![]()
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