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Final Draft 7 Professional Scriptwriting Win/Mac | List Price: $289.99
Discount Price: $162.99
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Platform: Windows NT 4, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Macintosh, Windows Me, Mac OS X
Brand: Final Draft, Inc.
Binding: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2004-04-01
Features: - Word processing combined with professional script formatting
- Designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics, and stage plays
- Automatically paginates and formats script to industry standards
- 100-percent cross-platform compatibility; easily import/export files
- 50+ templates; text to speech, have your script read back to you
Final Draft for the Geek-Speak Challenged [Posted on 2008-05-09]
My screenwriting coach advised me to bump up my work by converting to the industry standard, which I did: Final Draft V7.3.1.
The product works exactly as expected.
As a long-time geek, familiar with software documentation, I found theirs seriously lacking -- obviously written by programmers. (Limited English, abundant screenshots, third-person, talk-down-to-you voice.) That's okay, if you speak geek, they don't change the interface and you don't mind being talked-down-to.
This means that their customer service team must work harder than necessary, holding hands with people learning how to use product features.
Be prepared for first-tier contact challenges that infer you might be a pirate 'user', who has innocently 'borrowed' a friend's copy of their product. (Even if this is not true.)
Ultimately, the contact experience that we developed left me with a sweet taste for a company that works hard at catering to and handling creative types.
I'm smart enough to work my way around faux file-save challenges; to crank up automatic saves and e-mail myself a daily copy of my work. And generally, I can hack my way into features and discover how they work.
Much better than no software at all [Posted on 2008-05-19]
I haven't tried any other scriptwriting software but this one worked well for me. It's time-saving and makes your script look the way it's supposed to. It's easy to use and I like the format check it will do for you before you print. I think the voices feature is a cool idea but in reality the voices are useless because they don't sound human or have a clue as to inflection. There are more applications and features that are probably awesome but I haven't checked them out yet. Overall,I do recommend it.
This program sucks [Posted on 2008-05-20]
I'm a professional screenwriter who started on FD back in the day and then converted to Movie Magic. I'm having to use FD 7 on a project I'm collaborating on and it's crashed 5 times now. I hate the interface, it's glitchy, and it doesn't have cool MM features. I do like the format when you print, but man, it ain't worth it. Wish I'd talked my partner into going w/ Movie Magic.
Wish I had More Time [Posted on 2008-05-21]
From what I've seen of this product, it has everything that I need to write professional looking plays. I just need to find the time to explore all of the features...and to write in general. I've written one script, and re-formatted another using this program, and have been very impressed with how much time this program can save you once you know what you're doing.
Final Draft [Posted on 2008-05-27]
I started using Final Draft7 immediately. The instructions were simple; the tutorial was practical and effective. I was able to begin the work on my screenplay in a short period of time. It is easy to use. I did my outline in WORD and wish I'd had Final Draft from the beginning.
SJW
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