After the final draft of a script is turned in by the screenwriter, and the decision to go into production is made, copies of what is now the shooting script are distributed to cast and crew.
Each time a change is made to the script after that, everyone needs a copy of the changes. Instead of sending out the entire document to everyone again, only those pages with changed text are sent—the revised pages.
Revised pages have revision marks next to those lines that have changed, or revision marks in the header if most of the page has changed. Added (A and B) and deleted (Omitted) scenes and pages are indicated also.
Each time a set of revised pages is distributed, they're copied on a different color of paper to instantly distinguish them from other revisions.
Screenwriter can automatically generate all A-Pages, A-Scenes and revision marks for you, and gives you a lot of flexibility over how you'd like your revisions to appear. To begin generating revised pages, you must first Lock the Page Breaks of the script. Otherwise, any addition or deletion to the script would change the page numbers of the pages following it—and everyone would no longer have the same text on the same pages. Subsequent pages are added as A-Pages. Deleted pages become Omitted pages.
Similarly, Scene Headings (and numbers) can be locked, so that everyone's referring to the same scene. New scenes become A-Scenes. Deleted scenes become Omitted scenes.
NOTE: If you place the mouse on Page Panel in a locked script, it displays a pop-up window with the total number of page, how many pages were revised and the applicable percentage.
