Enter the magical world of cinema using Packt's new Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide.
Packt is pleased to announce Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide, an illustrative guide to writing and formatting professional scripts and screenplays in the only way acceptable to Hollywood producers and agents. Written by Ralph Roberts, this book will help readers to get acquainted with all the writing features of Celtx.
Celtx is free media pre-production software designed for creating and organizing media projects like screenplays, films, videos, stageplays, audio plays, documentaries, machinima, comics, games and podcasts. Built on open, non-proprietary standards, this client-server application gives independent filmmakers and media creators an integrated and non-linear approach to the pre-production work phase, providing support for industry standard scriptwriting, story development, storyboarding, script breakdowns, production scheduling and reports.
We've all watched a disappointing movie and said, "I could write it better than that." It doesn't matter how good a script might be – if it doesn't look right, producers and agents won't read it. The answer (and it's an easy one) to writing screenplays in the rigid format required is Celtx!
Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide answers the need of millions of screenwriters-how to turn out a pro-looking script without spending hundreds on Final Draft or Movie Magic. It includes screenplay formatting and structuring
examples, excerpts from both classic movie scripts and some of the author's own as examples, tips on marketing, and more.
Anyone who aims to write a professional script or screenplay using the open source tool Celtx will find the book an interesting and beneficial read. No previous knowledge of Celtx or any other writing software is required. This book is out now and available from Packt. For more information please visit: www.PacktPub.com/celtx-open-source-screenwriting-beginners-guide/book
Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide
Write and market Hollywood-perfect movie scripts the free way!
For more information, please visit: http://www.packtpub.com/celtx-open-source-screenwriting-beginners-guide/book
Realizing the promise of Apache® Hadoop® requires the effective deployment of compute, memory, storage and networking to achieve optimal results. With its flexibility and multitude of options, it is easy to over or under provision the server infrastructure, resulting in poor performance and high TCO. Join us for an in depth, technical discussion with industry experts from leading Hadoop and server companies who will provide insights into the key considerations for designing and deploying an optimal Hadoop cluster.
Sponsored by AMD
Built-in forensics, incident response, and security with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Every security policy provides guidance and requirements for ensuring adequate protection of information and data, as well as high-level technical and administrative security requirements for a system in a given environment. Traditionally, providing security for a system focuses on the confidentiality of the information on it. However, protecting the data integrity and system and data availability is just as important. For example, when processing United States intelligence information, there are three attributes that require protection: confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Learn more about catching the bad guy in this free white paper.
Sponsored by DLT Solutions
| Designing Electronics with Linux | May 22, 2013 |
| Dynamic DNS—an Object Lesson in Problem Solving | May 21, 2013 |
| Using Salt Stack and Vagrant for Drupal Development | May 20, 2013 |
| Making Linux and Android Get Along (It's Not as Hard as It Sounds) | May 16, 2013 |
| Drupal Is a Framework: Why Everyone Needs to Understand This | May 15, 2013 |
| Home, My Backup Data Center | May 13, 2013 |
- Linux Systems Administrator
- New Products
- Senior Perl Developer
- Technical Support Rep
- UX Designer
- Web & UI Developer (JavaScript & j Query)
- Designing Electronics with Linux
- Dynamic DNS—an Object Lesson in Problem Solving
- Using Salt Stack and Vagrant for Drupal Development
- Making Linux and Android Get Along (It's Not as Hard as It Sounds)
- Have you tried Boxen? It's a
4 hours 57 min ago - seo services in india
9 hours 28 min ago - For KDE install kio-mtp
9 hours 29 min ago - Evernote is much more...
11 hours 29 min ago - Reply to comment | Linux Journal
20 hours 14 min ago - Dynamic DNS
20 hours 48 min ago - Reply to comment | Linux Journal
21 hours 47 min ago - Reply to comment | Linux Journal
22 hours 37 min ago - Not free anymore
1 day 2 hours ago - Great
1 day 6 hours ago
Enter to Win an Adafruit Pi Cobbler Breakout Kit for Raspberry Pi

It's Raspberry Pi month at Linux Journal. Each week in May, Adafruit will be giving away a Pi-related prize to a lucky, randomly drawn LJ reader. Winners will be announced weekly.
Fill out the fields below to enter to win this week's prize-- a Pi Cobbler Breakout Kit for Raspberry Pi.
Congratulations to our winners so far:
- 5-8-13, Pi Starter Pack: Jack Davis
- 5-15-13, Pi Model B 512MB RAM: Patrick Dunn
- 5-21-13, Prototyping Pi Plate Kit: Philip Kirby
- Next winner announced on 5-27-13!
Featured Jobs
| Linux Systems Administrator | Houston and Austin, Texas | Host Gator |
| Senior Perl Developer | Austin, Texas | Host Gator |
| Technical Support Rep | Houston and Austin, Texas | Host Gator |
| UX Designer | Austin, Texas | Host Gator |
| Web & UI Developer (JavaScript & j Query) | Austin, Texas | Host Gator |
Free Webinar: Hadoop
How to Build an Optimal Hadoop Cluster to Store and Maintain Unlimited Amounts of Data Using Microservers
Realizing the promise of Apache® Hadoop® requires the effective deployment of compute, memory, storage and networking to achieve optimal results. With its flexibility and multitude of options, it is easy to over or under provision the server infrastructure, resulting in poor performance and high TCO. Join us for an in depth, technical discussion with industry experts from leading Hadoop and server companies who will provide insights into the key considerations for designing and deploying an optimal Hadoop cluster.
Some of key questions to be discussed are:
- What is the “typical” Hadoop cluster and what should be installed on the different machine types?
- Why should you consider the typical workload patterns when making your hardware decisions?
- Are all microservers created equal for Hadoop deployments?
- How do I plan for expansion if I require more compute, memory, storage or networking?



Now how did I miss this?
Well, I use Celtx (reviewed it before SF last year) and it worked once again for me this year, so kudos on a great product.
David Lane, KG4GIY is a member of Linux Journal's Editorial Advisory Panel and the Control Op for Linux Journal's Virtual Ham Shack