Review of Final Draft Version 8
I’ve been using Final Draft to write screenplays for the last 2 years. Before that I suffered greatly with MS Word. I’ve waited what seems like forever for Final Draft 8 to come out and it was worth the wait. I live in Japan so I’ve had for a few days already. I’ve test driven it and it’s great. The new layout is smooth, sexy and most of all it’s helpful. The new features are many so I haven’t messed around with most of them but the new scene finder makes jumping around within a document a breeze. The program comes with a brand new tutorial in 3 parts and a heap of new preloaded templates from popular TV shows. I bought the upgrade so it was very worth it for me at 79 USD. If you have to buy the program in full it’s tough to say if I’d just as easily pay 300 USD for it. As for the program itself, nothing beats it that I’ve found.
Product Description
Everyone has a story. The problem is giving that story life. Final Draft is a unique word processing application that helps take your story ideas and make them ready for stage and screen.
Do you have the dream of writing and selling million-dollar scripts to Hollywood and Broadway, and achieving fame and fortune? The first step in realizing this dream is Final Draft, the same software used on nearly every television show, feature film, and theatre production. Using Final Draft is like knowing the insider handshake. It enables a new, aspiring writer to create a professional-looking script like those passed around in studio writers’ rooms. Scripts for sale are first judged by how they are formatted and how they appear. Final Draft has made it impossible for Industry agents to know the difference between a professional writer and an aspiring one.Dynamically compares two scripts and highlights any changes, allowing you to easily see the differences from one file to the next Over 50 television show, movie and stage play templates are included, complete with characters and locations Checks your script for common formatting errors, such as missing dialogue, extra spaces, carriage returns and blank elements Pop-up windows that can hold ideas, notes, suggestions or scene fragments without taking up space onscreen Write, edit and discuss a script with other Final Draft users in real time, over the Internet, anywhere in the world Have your script read back to you by assigning different voices to your characters. It’s like having a live script reading in your computer An interactive problem-solver with legendary screenwriting teacher Syd Field, television writer Larry Brody, playwright Jon Dorf and WGAW’s The Creative Rights Handbook System Requirements (Windows) – Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows XP Intel Pentium III processor or later Minimum 512 MB
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