Product Description

Use your creative energy to focus on the content; let Final Draft take care of the style. Final Draft is the number-one selling word processor specifically designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics and stage plays. It combines powerful word processing with professional script formatting in one self-contained, easy-to-use package. There is no need to learn about script formatting rules - Final Draft automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards as you write.
Final Draft 7 combines powerful word processing with professional script formatting in one all-purpose screenwriting tool. Use your creative energy to create the story that burns inside you. Final Draft handles the technical details - all you have to supply is the heart. Format Assistant checks for and fixes common errors - missing dialogue, extra spaces, blank elements etc. Break down your Final Draft scripts to their fundamental components and export them with the Tagger tool No more retyping your scripts over and over -- export them to PDF format and share them with anyone Built-in Script Registry - online WGAw registry service helps you protect your scripts Import/Export from any word processor New Index Card functions new stand-alone application that enables you to ?tag? elements of a script [cast, costumes, props, etc.] and export the results into any movie scheduling software. Created with the help of veteran assistant directors, producers and unit production managers, Tagger means no more going over a paper script again and again with highlighters. Over 2 Dozen new templates Customizable Reports Format Assistant Improved Final Draft Courier Font

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76 in Software
• Brand: Final Draft, Inc.
• Released on: 2004-04-01
• Platforms: Windows NT 4, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Macintosh, Windows Me, Mac OS X
• Format: CD-ROM

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

Customer Reviews

Final Draft for the Geek-Speak Challenged
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.

Only TWO Computers can use it...
This is THE SCREENWRITING program... its awesome... and Amazon is actually one of the cheapest places to find it (Retails $229) but even at Amazon's lower price its still too darn expensive... While I'm not admitting pirating software - FinalDraft as solved the problem - by charging a LARGE amount of money to get their serial code, which you MUST register online to unlock and use - and worst of all - You can only do it TWICE.

So I was quite frustrated to shell out that large amount of cash - only to discover that I can't use this on my two home computers (my G4 Desktop and my MacBook Pro) in addition to my computer at work - I have to pick two computers to load it on.

So bah humbug to you Final Draft 7 creators - it's a great program - but If we buy it - we should be able to load it on AT LEAST Three computers.

Horray for Final Draft!
As a first time screenwriter I needed a program that was easy to learn and great to work with and I found it. Final Draft.

I love this program! It has eveything I need even index cards to keep my ideas on.
The only draw back, and I found out about it AFTER I purchased the program, is that the part where it reads the script back to you doesn't work on vista computers so I had to install the program on an old compter but it still works great!