Hi there -
New user here, and I feel like I'm missing something obvious:
How do you move a beat from one scene to another?
I've watched a bunch of the tutorials and I've taken the approach that's shown in them: you start brainstorming beats, arranging them and tweaking them as you go - but they're all under the same scene, and when I try to create a new scene and move a beat into it, it pulls a scene header with it.
For example, I've written a bunch of beats in the Dining Room, but then I realize one of those beats should have happened earlier when we were in the Hospital. Dragging the beat to the Hospital scene creates a new Dining Room scene header in the middle of the Hospital sequence.
Easily shifting beats around seems like a fundamental piece of how this workflow is built - am I missing something?
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Hi,
Locations are stamped onto every beat. This is what allows the whiteboard to function, or moving any beat would most likely put it into a random and unknown scene -- a cafeteria beat would suddenly happen in outer space, and we might not even know it. So the app inserts and removes scene headings as needed to keep beats in their correct locations, and automatically cuts back as well.
So to move a beat to another scene, you have to move the beat and then delete the scene heading.
We do have on our polish list to make more keyboard shortcuts, including one to drag a beat to another scene holding a modifier, and then it immediately adopts the location of the drop location. Obviously, moving beats between scenes is a real use-case. But it always has to be the alternate option, because it's destructive.
But for now, you have to do the workaround of simply moving the beat and then deleting the scene heading because you no longer intend for that beat to happen in its original location. Keep in mind also that it's important that you're the one doing it, because the beat also has to be rewritten to work in the new location. A cafeteria scene would have a waitress bringing a bill, and that doesn't work in outer space. So it's important that this doesn't happen behind your back.
I hope this helps!