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How to Generate Sides

How to select and order your side scenes.

Updated over 8 months ago

In this Article:


Selecting Scripts

To generate Sides, click Scripts on the menu panel, then select Generate Sides:

From the menu panel, select the script(s) to generate sides from your latest script versions, with a filter to select from previous drafts.

Generate Sides from Multiple Scripts

Productions requiring sides compiled from multiple scripts can do so with Croogloo.

Select all scripts required for daily sides and toggle between scripts to pull scene for your sides, with no limit on scripts selected.



Select by Scenes, Characters or Locations


Toggle between scenes, characters and locations. Check the boxes that apply

Or type scene numbers into the Quick Scene Selector box:


Shooting Order

Productions requiring scenes to be set in Shooting Order for their sides can do so in multiple ways with Croogloo.

Scenes can be set based on the order they are selected

or

in the panel by dragging the scenes to their location:

Scenes will display with their corresponding script version with the option to duplicate scenes in your sides:

or remove any entries selected before generating your sides:

Once set, click Submit to generate your sides.
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Format Sides


Generate sides in 1-UP (standard paper size) and/or 2-UP (booklet size) at the same time:

Select how your sides will display from the Output Options window:

What do the mark ups look like?

Hide Unselected Scenes

Cross Out Unselected Scenes:

Cross Out and Mask Unselected Scenes

Options for Selected Scenes:

Circle Scene Numbers:

Add Continuity Arrow to track scenes with an arrow at the bottom of pages and a line when scene ends:

Complete the process

All done, now select Submit to generate your sides.

A badge will display on the notification bell on the top right of your screen, where you can track the progress of your job and alerted to when it is done:

Check out our Formatting Tools page to learn more about all the different ways you can generate your sides.


Attaching a Call Sheet to Sides

To attach a call sheet to sides navigate to the Sides page and select the 3 dots beside the applicable sides. Select Attach a Call Sheet


Side Storage

Sides are retrievable from your files, automatically updating your Sides folder with the latest version generated. Documents > Files > Sides

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