The Help/FAQs/Tutorials button on Rehearsal® Pro leads you to the screen that provides a number of help, tutorial and support options, including videos, audio, text and frequently asked questions.
Here’s a video what you’ll find in the information screen, the little ( i ) button in the upper right hand corner of the main menu:
The Main Menu on Rehearsal® Pro is the starting point for you when working with the app. It has several buttons, and you should know what they all do. We’ll explore each of the areas the buttons take you to in individual help videos.
Here’s a video that shows you what each button is and what they control:
Here are all the buttons on the Main Menu and what they do:
You don’t have to pay again for Rehearsal® Pro if you want to put it on more than one device, like an iPhone and an iPad or iPod Touch. You simply have to use the App Store app on your additional device, look up Rehearsal® Pro, and tap on the cloud icon to download it. Just so you know, this is true for any app in the App Store, and you can put any app on up to 5 devices.
IMPORTANT: Your version of iOS may require you to go to Updates in the App Store app, tap on your account picture, then Purchased, then Not on this [device] to find and download your copy of Rehearsal® Pro.
Here’s a video that shows you how, with a step-by-step below that:
Changing your password in Rehearsal® Pro is very simple.
Here’s a video that shows you how, with a step-by-step below that:
We only allow scripts to be sent to your script+username Rehearsal® Pro email address from the address you registered with – and any address you yourself add to your account. This can be your agent, manager, the production office of a show you’re working on, but no one else. We do this for security purposes, and so that your Rehearsal® Pro account doesn’t get spammed.
If you want to add additional senders, it’s easy (and if you want to remove a sender, scroll to the bottom of this page for those simple directions).
Here’s a video that shows you the whole process:
And here’s how to do it step by step:
1. From the Main Menu, tap on the Account/Settings button in the lower right hand corner. (If that button says Register/Login, then log in to your account first.)
2. Scroll almost to the bottom of your account page and tap on Add another email address.
3. Tap in the email address you’d like to add to your approved senders list. Be very careful to be accurate when tapping in the address.
4. When you’re finished, tap Done, just above the keyboard.
5. To complete the process, tap Update just below where you entered the new sender email address, and your newly added address will now be able to send you scripts. You’ll see a message at the top of your page that shows you the address has been added, and the email address you added will receive a message, telling them that they’ve been added.
To remove an approved sender, go to this same screen and tap the check box next to the address you want to remove, then tap Update. The address will be deleted from your list.
When you first register for Rehearsal® Pro, you register with your email address, and you choose a username, password and more.
The email address you register with is the only email address you can send scripts FROM (unless you add additional authorized senders).
Once you’ve registered, you’re assigned a unique email address in our system that is only email address you can send scripts TO your copy of Rehearsal® Pro. It’s in the form of:
…where USERNAME is your chosen username. So, if your Rehearsal® Pro username is “joesmith” your personal, permanent address for this account is:
(note that the word “script” in the email address is just simply the word “script,” not the name of any script or it’s filename you might be sending – just “script”)
Please make sure you know exactly what your script+USERNAME email address is, and that you make an entry for it in your email contacts. We suggest that you make the name associated with that contact the word “Scripts.” Don’t make it “Rehearsal” because when you start typing in R-e-h… your email service might autopopulate our support address ([email protected]) – and sending your scripts there won’t work.
Here’s a video that gives you an review of your script+USERNAME email address:
If you don’t yet have a Rehearsal® Pro account, you’ll need to create (and activate) one before you can start rehearsing.
We’ll start with the Sign In or Sign Up screen, displayed after the quick tutorial and permissions requests when you first launch the app:
Choose Create new account, and fill in the information on the form.
Be very careful to accurately tap in your username, password and email address. If you mis-tap that info, you won’t be able to log in.
When you’re finished, tap Register at the bottom of the form.
Within a few minutes, you’ll be sent an activation email message from us, and you’ll need to click on the uniquely coded link in that email to complete the registration process.
We do this because we want only correct email addresses in our database. This activation loop assures that.
If it doesn’t arrive in your inbox within a few minutes, check your spam folder, or any folder in which you may have directed mail from us to be filtered into.
We never see, and can’t see your scripts, so your NDA is not being violated (we actually worked with the studios on this). A great example is the highly-safeguarded MARVEL’s Agents of SHIELD scripts that one of our best known users, Clark Gregg (Director Coulson), pulls into Rehearsal® Pro every single day he’s shooting (and 144,000 other users with similar requirements do as well).
Truth be told, just sending out a script as an attachment is far more dangerous for the producer than you sending it to Rehearsal® Pro, because the recipient could simply forward it, by mistake or on purpose, to anyone via email. They could post it online in a fan forum. They could share plot points via social media. But that can’t happen with our closed, protected system.
Here, in a video interview in Variety, Christian Slater talks about his use of Rehearsal, and is asked by Homeland’s Miranda Otto about the safety of the scripts:
Hopefully, she’ll see this answer and know why we think we safeguard our users’ scripts very well.
Professional actors don’t find using a disembodied voice, like a digital assistant’s, to be at all helpful with the context of the scene. These voices only say a line one way. Always. That’s not useful to you as a pro, so, no, there is no option for that in Rehearsal® Pro.
Here, watch this to see why:
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Welcome! You’ve successfully downloaded and installed Rehearsal® Pro. Here’s how to properly set up your app.
Before you get started, please know that all of your scripts from Rehearsal 2 will be located in Already Added Scripts in Add New Scripts. NOTE: because Rehearsal 2 had no way of uploading your markup (highlighting, scribbles, comments, beat marks and scenes), the scripts will be the way they were when you added them originally, with none of the markup you’ve added. You can still use Rehearsal 2 for any scripts you’re currently working on, but at some point, start using Rehearsal® Pro exclusively.
We’ll start with the quick tutorial screens and permissions requests you’ll get when you first open the app:
There are several that follow the first one you’ll see, describing what the app is all about. Once you’ve seen all those, you’ll be presented with the permissions screen.
When you first start to use your account, you may see an alert like this:
Rehearsal® Pro uses your microphone to record your scenes, and uses your camera to record video comments. It also allows you to use existing photos for comments on your scripts. So, on this screen, click the checkbox next to all of the options. If you don’t, you won’t be able to use Rehearsal® Pro properly. You’ll find that you can’t record your scenes, and the app will continually beep at you when you start to record, and nothing will be recorded.
The little badge on Rehearsal® Pro’s desktop icon tells you how many scripts you have waiting for you to add to your library. This shows that the user has 3 scripts waiting:
You will see this alert when you first start:
Allow this, and a simple glance at Rehearsal® Pro’s icon will notify you that you’ve got work to do.
This is up to you, depending upon the data plan you have with your carrier. We suggest that you do your work with your WiFi on. If it is, your scripts, markup, audio, video, and communication with our server will all occur over WiFi.
If you don’t have WiFi available, and all you can use is your mobile cellular data, it may cost you money to do so. That’s why we alert you to choose what you’d like to do. Whatever your selection, you can always change it in the Settings >> Cellular >> USE CELLULAR DATA FOR: list of apps. Scroll down to Rehearsal® Pro and choose to have it on or off.
Here’s a video that shows you how to fill all that in so that we can get going using the app!
NOTE: We do need all the permissions shown there. Please enable all of them.
When you’re finished giving us the permissions we need, you’ll be presented with the the Sign In or Sign Up screen:
If you already have an account from an earlier version of Rehearsal® (2 or 2.5), you can log right in and see all your existing raw scripts. You want to do that, instead of creating a new account.
When presented with the Sign In or Sign Up screen, tap on Login to existing account, enter the same username and password you’ve always used on the Login screen, then tap Login:
If not, you’ll need to create one.
On the Sign In or Sign Up screen, choose Create new account, and fill in the information on the form.
Be very careful to accurately tap in your username, password and email address. If you mis-tap that info, you won’t be able to log in.
When you’re finished, tap Register at the bottom of the form.
Within a few minutes, you’ll be sent an activation email message from us, and you’ll need to click on the uniquely coded link in that email to complete the registration process.
We do this because we want only correct email addresses in our database. This activation loop assures that.
If the activation email doesn’t arrive within a few minutes, see Can’t locate your activation email? below.
If you’ve forgotten your password, you’ll need to reset it. Here’s how:
1. Tap on the Forgot Password button on the Login page.
2. Tap in your username and email address. Then tap on the Forgot Password button. If you can’t remember your username, just enter your email address, and the system will send you both your username and password.
3. You’ll get a confirmation email requesting you to click on the Confirm link so we know it was you who asked for the reset password. Confirm that, and you’ll receive a temporary password via another email message.
4. Read that email message on your device, and copy and paste that temporary password when logging in.
5. Tap on the Account/Settings button from the main menu, and change your password to whatever you want.
Our activation emails usually arrive in your inbox just fine. But sometimes, your Internet Service Provider, the company you get your email access from, will misunderstand the content of the activation email from us, treating it as spam.
So first, check your Spam folder to see if it’s in there. Also, check any folders that email might be filtered into.
If you can’t find it anywhere, you can request that we re-send the activation email.
1. Tap on the Resend Activation button on the Login screen:
2. Tap in your username and email address. Then tap on the Resend Activation button.
Be patient. If it still hasn’t arrived in a reasonable amount of time (say, 1/2 hour), contact us via the support email system. You can reach that from the main help screen.
When you first register Rehearsal® Pro, all of your old scripts will be available to you in the Already Added Scripts section of your Add New Scripts area, but they will be the original scripts, with no markup. You can only sync markup that you’ve created in Rehearsal® Pro.
Rehearsal® 2 changed the way over 100,000 actors have learned their lines, explored their characters and mastered their scenes. And now, Rehearsal® Pro has been redesigned and rewritten from the ground up to help you get off-book and book more work.
Here’s what’s now and new in Rehearsal® Pro:
…and so much more.