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Final Draft 7 Professional Scriptwriting Win/Mac | List Price: $289.99
Discount Price: $163.99
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Platform: Mac OS X, Macintosh, Windows Me, Windows NT 4, Windows XP, Windows 2000
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
- No need to learn about script formatting rules--automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards as you write
- 100-percent cross-platform compatibility; easily import/export files, and collaborate on a script with other Final Draft users anywhere in the world via the Internet
- 50+ television show, movie and stageplay templates are included, complete with characters and locations
- Text to speech--have your script read back to you by assigning different voices to your characters
Screenwriting mad easy [Posted on 2008-11-23]
Final Draft is a great piece of software which will make your screenwriting a lot easier. Very intuitive and straight forward. If you are serious about writing scripts, give into the industry standard and get Final Draft. The only comment I would have is that it looks a little retro for this day and age. They could work on the design a little. But this does not keep it from being a great program. You won't regret this purchase.
The Product for serious script writers [Posted on 2008-11-24]
No doubt, this is the best script writer's sexton. Easy format, ready to use out of the box.
Final Draft! [Posted on 2008-11-25]
Final Draft is seriously the best screenwriting software out there. I'm a college student looking to go into the Film industry, and with the help of Final Draft, I am able to get my ideas easily into the script format!
Solid program, but kind of buggy [Posted on 2008-12-12]
Final Draft certainly has a monopoly on the screenwriting software market; it is the industry standard. However, because they don't have to compete, they also don't seem to be motivated to fix the bugs in their product. I have bought the last three versions of the product and put them to good use. I just wish they would figure out a way to fix the all too frequent crashing trouble. I have lost more than a few pages of work due to unexplained crashes that their tech support department cannot seem to explain/fix. Their pre-made TV templates seem to be the most buggy. That said, it is a really helpful program, but just make sure if you choose to use Final Draft: SAVE OFTEN.
Industry standard. Bug fest. Company is arrogant. [Posted on 2008-12-16]
Okay, for starters, I've been writing scripts professionally for year... for Warners, Paramount, ABC, CBS, etc.. and for myself.
THE PROS:
1) It's THE industry standard. You can send Final Draft files to any studio, no problem. Everybody uses it.
2) It's easy to jump between slug lines, action, dialog, etc.
3) Keeping track of revisions is simple and works.
THE CONS:
1) Buggy as hell. In fact, its embarrassingly buggy and the company hasn't fix the bugs IN YEARS!!! Guess when you dominate an industry, why waste money on making the product work as advertised. This policy worked wonders for the American auto industry, didn't it.
2) If you have a problem with their bugs, call the company and they charge you $2 per minute to solve their software screw ups.
3) Their "collabowriter" feature. Hah. I've known countless writers over the years in Hollywood. Never met who got that to work.
4) No updates in years!
5) Oh, did I mention buggy?
6) Notes feature is super basic. Barely useable.
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