about outlining ...

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 18, 2011 at 12:57 PM

There’s an (apparently) new Windows entrant, Outline4D http://www.screenplay.com/p-77-outline-4d.aspx , which can display metatext inline, among many other views. Outline4D also has a timeline view, so I’m cross-posting it in a relevant thread.

It seems to be an evolved version of an earlier Write Brothers’ program (they seem to specialise in tools for writing movie scripts) which provided the same vertical-outline / horizontal-timeline view. I don’t remember the name of that software, but I had surely written about it here at the time—several years ago. I recall that its price tag was quite higher—probably double- than Outline4D.

Outline4D does not seem to provide a trial version, but there are plenty of screenshots in the above website, as well as several videos here http://www.learnoutline4d.com/