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Annotate your script

Mark up your script on the Script tab with highlights, underlines, and strikethroughs, organized into layers you can show or hide.

Written by Egor Dubrovsky

The Script tab lets you mark up your script with highlights, underlines, and strikethroughs. Marks are grouped into layers you can show or hide, so you can keep separate sets of notes on the same script.

Annotations sit on top of the script. They do not change the script text or your tags.

Note: Your layers and marks are private to you. Other people with access to the project do not see them. Annotations do not use Dude Coins.

Before you begin

  • Open a project that already has a script uploaded.

  • Open the scene you want to annotate. Marks apply to the scene you currently have open.

Create an annotation

  1. Go to app.filmustage.com, and then open your project.

  2. Go to the Script tab.

  3. Above the script page, find the annotation toolbar and select a tool: Highlight, Underline, or Strikethrough.

  4. For Highlight or Underline, choose a color from the palette, or select + to pick a custom color. Strikethrough has no color.

  5. Select the text you want to mark.

Filmustage adds the mark to your active layer. If you do not have a layer yet, Filmustage creates one for you.

Tip: Each tool has a keyboard shortcut: H for Highlight, U for Underline, S for Strikethrough, and V for Select. To leave annotation mode, select the active tool again, or select Select.

Edit or delete an annotation

  1. On the toolbar, select Select.

  2. Select the mark you want to change.

  3. In the popover, choose a new color for a highlight or underline, or select Delete to remove the mark.

Organize annotations into layers

Layers let you group marks and switch whole sets on or off. The Layers section is in the panel on the right.

Create a layer

  1. In the Layers section, select New layer.

  2. In the New annotation layer dialog, enter a Name and choose a Color.

  3. Select Create.

Filmustage adds the layer and makes it active. New marks go to the active layer.

Set the active layer

When you have two or more layers, select a layer in the Layers section to make it active. New marks go to the active layer.

Show or hide marks

  • Use the checkbox next to a layer to show or hide the whole layer.

  • Expand a layer to show or hide marks by type: Highlight, Underline, and Strikethrough.

Rename, recolor, or delete a layer

  1. Select the options menu (the three dots) next to a layer.

  2. Choose Rename, Change color, or Delete.

Caution: Deleting a layer permanently removes every mark in it. Filmustage asks you to confirm first.

Plans

Script annotations are available on all plans, including Free.

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