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[Adobe Short and Suite: On the Road with Jason and Karl]
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[Jason Levine]
[Karl Soule]
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[Short and Suite: On the Road with Jason and Karl]
Hi again, Karl Soule for Short and Suite.
Story is part of a series of Adobe services.
If you own Production Premium or Premier Pro,
you have access to Adobe Story.
Adobe Story's found at story.adobe.com.
Here I've got a web browser open, and it's currently open to the site.
You're going to need your Adobe ID to log in.
If you use any of the other tools on Adobe.com like Acrobat.com,
or if you use Photoshop.com, they all use one Adobe ID.
So you don't have to create a special account just for Story.
You can use your same Adobe ID.
Story, as a service, gets updated roughly every 8 weeks,
so new features are being added to it all of the time.
I thought I'd give you guys a quick overview of what Story is evolving into
and some of the new features you can now take advantage of inside Story.
To get started, a lot of people think of Story as more of a screenwriting tool.
You need to move past that.
Story is actually more of a one-stop-shop for all your pre-production documentation needs.
More than just having a script, you can also have a bunch of different collateral documents.
You can have web links, and you can store all of these in one location.
You can share that information pretty easily,
giving people the ability to look at all these different documents
from different places anywhere in the world, really,
because they're all hosted in the cloud--they're all hosted online.
I've got a project here inside of Story.
I'm on the home welcome screen here.
I'll go ahead and open the project that I'm working on.
This is for a short film I'm working on, called "The Button."
I've actually scripted this out, but you can use Story even if you're not scripting something out.
If you have character bios--if you have all different types of documents,
you can create those right from within Adobe Story.
You can see here is a list of some of the different documents we can have inside of Story.
And they're all stored in one location.
This is one of the areas that Story has continued to evolve in--
creating these different types of documents.
But we can still create standard film scripts, as well.
In addition, you can also import documents.
If you have a script from another application--
if you have a document in Microsoft Word format--PDF files--
you can import those, as well.
You kind of manage them all in this central location.
Once you've created a document--
I'll go ahead and jump into my script here.
So here's the beginning of the script that I'm working on.
We can actually type and work directly inside of Story.
If I come in here and turn on the Formatting toolbar,
there again are all of the standard controls we need for word processing,
so it definitely acts as a word processor.
It's got a lot of features that I've already touched on
that really go into the specifics of screenwriting.
One of the great things about Story is it is a collaborative environment.
Since all your documents are stored online,
I can set up a Review function, I can add co-authors to this,
and I can actually start seeing and tracking what the changes are that they're making.
This is all functionality that--for anybody who has worked in depth with PDF files--
it kind of builds on that same Adobe technology.
This is all storing it online.
I can go in, and as the master author of this,
I can make some choices as to whether I want to keep changes, reject changes.
I can send notes back and forth to people.
This is another area that we've really continued to update and advance
what's going on inside of Story.
Finally, when you go to export out your documents,
you can save these back out into standard file formats such as PDF or text files.
One of the things that, of course, is really exciting
from a metadata perspective and being able to use this information in more ways,
you have the ability of taking your script and saving it out to the special Interchange Format.
The Adobe Story Interchange Format can be used in other parts of Production Premium.
So that's just a quick overview of some of the updates that are already here with Adobe Story,
and keep in mind that the application is undergoing a pretty rapid development process.
Again, about every 8 weeks or so, you'll see some new things get added in there, as well.
We really hope that Adobe Story is going to become your one-stop-shop
for all your pre-production planning and documentation organization needs.
Thanks for watching.
My name's Karl Soule.
[Executive Producer - Bob Donlon]
[Producer - Karl Miller]
[Director - Kush Amerasinghe]
[Post Production - Erik Espera]
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