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    elemmanuel
    Jan 11

    Updates

    in Causality Story Sequencer

    Hello and happy new year!

    I renew my license for another year, but I'm concern of not seeing many updates lately?

    What is happening next?


    This is a FAN-TAS-TIC software with not a lot of recognition.

    I really hope we are not losing you guys and that Causality, it's still in active development.


    I've been looking for a software like this one forever, and there is nothing like it out there.


    Best


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    Per Holmes
    Mar 10

    We're all on our last task.

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    Jérøme Genevray
    Mar 10

    Hello Per !

    Is there any news about version 3 in beta ? We'd love to help you guys !

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    Miquiel Banks
    Feb 07

    I have used all the other writing platforms, this is ALREADY the Leading Writing Tool. I cannot wait until Version 3.0 drops - put me in on the Alpha Testing Per !!!!

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    Per Holmes
    Jan 27

    Thank you!

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    tom
    Jan 27

    That's an awesome strategy. Love it. You will get to the point, where it becomes one of the leading writing tools, that´s for sure.

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    Per Holmes
    Jan 27

    This is true, we don't charge update fees. We feel that it's a counter-productive business model that forces features to held back by months or years in order to make updates big enough to charge for, and it forces a significant part of the user base to always be running an old version, forcing us to keep patching old versions, and having fewer people using the latest, sexiest features, which is bad advertising.


    By not charging for updates, we can reasonably expect people to always run the latest version. And especially for sync/collaboration, it would be devastating if multiple copies ran very different versions, because the data models wouldn't be compatible.


    We'll also never charge platform fees. One purchase is access to the app on all platforms. It has an obvious user-benefit, but it's also a lot easier for us to have a single platform-agnostic app.


    Sync/collaboration with a certain amount of media storage will also be included with both permanent licenses and subscriptions, but larger team sizes and more media storage will cost extra. This is especially because once storyboards/previz are integrated into Causality, it's easy to run up many gigabytes.


    Hope this helps!

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    Xabier Larrondo
    Jan 27

    If you have paid. It's forever update free. That was in the purchase contract.

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    tom
    Jan 27

    I pruchased causality a while ago. I hope I don´t have to pay for the 3.0 again, or do I?

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    Per Holmes
    Jan 20

    Thanks! 3.0 is a truly massive update. We'll post alpha links here and email all users.

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    Mr Derp
    Jan 19

    I really want to get in on the Alpha. Causality has been an absolute godsend and amazing program so far.

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    Ian NZ
    Jan 18

    Very excited! Thanks Per.

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    aknittel1
    Jan 17

    Sure that's reasonable.

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    Per Holmes
    Jan 17

    It's not in beta yet. It's a massive update, and will go through an alpha phase, a few weeks from now. We'll email users about the alpha phase. I'll also post an alpha download page in the forum when it's ready, but it'll remain invite only, simply because we only want people running the alpha that know what they're getting into. It's also the first time we have an alpha release channel, so an alpha has to be installed to get ongoing alpha updates.

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    aknittel1
    Jan 17

    Just looked. 3.0 is NOT on the list of betas.

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    aknittel1
    Jan 17

    I would gladly try the 3.0 version and tolerate the beta version issues and report on them somewhere if that's helpful to Per.

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    elemmanuel
    Jan 17
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    Same here

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    elemmanuel
    Jan 16

    If there is a BETA to test somewhere, count me in.

    Where do I sign?

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    Ivan Tchoumak
    Jan 17
    Replying to

    If you go to the main hollywood causality page and click on the download section, right underneath there is a BETA link option.


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    Ian NZ
    Jan 16

    Hello! This is very exciting news: I love all the core functionality of Causality, but have held off from purchasing because I need collaborative editing options - I check back often to see if this is a feature that's been added yet, and it was a really pleasant surprise to see the above post.


    Any timeline on when 3.0 will drop? And per the previous comment, do you need beta testers?


    Thanks for producing such a great product - and continuing its development!

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    aknittel1
    Jan 16

    So 3.0 IS in beta, or you need volunteers to participate IN the beta?

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    Per Holmes
    Jan 12

    Thanks! Version 3.0 is dropping soon. We brought 2.4.14 to a place that was basically stable and functional, and used that as our ticket to make some deep changes so that Causality can handle the load of the future, including collaboration.


    It's a huge update that will have to stay in beta for a while because almost everything has been touched. Concepts have been cleaned up, and for example the script area has been almost rewritten from scratch so it's performant. It can now handle a 5,000 page document without blinking, perfect for writing multiple seasons of a TV show in the same project. Stuff like that.

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