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: #248 in Software
• Brand: Final Draft, Inc.
• Released on: 2007-06-01
• Platforms: Macintosh, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS X, Mac OS 9 and below

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
• Tag elements of a script and export into any movie scheduling software
• Single install version created for students and educators

From the Manufacturer
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.

What's new in Version 7
The next step in the evolution of screenwriting software. Final Draft is now an even more powerful writing tool that allows you to write and see your script in a variety of new ways.

The Panels System

Like most writers, you probably need to keep a lot of things at the front of your mind while you're writing: How does the Act 3 argument scene you're writing today connect to the argument scene in Act 1? Where should the first-kiss scene go? How many scenes are in the chase sequence? What are the plot points in Act 3? Like no other screenwriting program, Final Draft 7 can show you what you need to see while you're writing.

You can split your screen into separate panels and view your script pages in one panel and index cards in the other. If you enable the new Navigator panel (a consolidated, linear, top-to-bottom list of the Scene Headings) you can simply double-click on a scene heading and Final Draft will jump to that scene in the script panel.

Or view page 3 of the script in one panel and page 66 in another, side-by-side or stacked for easy viewing.

New Index Cards

For years Final Draft users have relied on the Scene Navigator as a quick map of their script. We've kept this tried-and-true tool but added a whole new dimension of functionality: now every card has two sides and you can write on one of them! The Script side works just the way you're used to in Scene Navigator, but the Summary side lets you type in development ideas, notes, sequence or act markers, comments, locations, blocking--anything you need to build and organize your story. And the text you type into the Summary Cards will appear as under the Scene Headings in the Navigator, so you can always see where you are in the story.

To put it simply, brainstorming, structuring, writing, and rewriting your script will be a lot easier when you have this comprehensive, interactive overview at your command.

Tagger

A 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.

Templates

Over two dozen new templates. These include new television shows and improved screenplay and stageplay templates.

Newest templates include:

American TV

• Arrested Development
• Boston Legal
• Cold Case
• CSI Miami
• CSI NY
• Deadwood
• Desperate Housewives
• Entourage
• Hope & Faith
• Joey
• Law And Order CI
• Lost
• The OC
• The Shield
• The Wire
• Two and a Half Men

• Screenplay for TV
• Screenplay
• Taped Sitcom
• Three-Camera Show

We've also improved Final Draft's Cast List, Revision Header, PDF exporting, the Title Page, CollaboWriter, and more. The "Ask the Expert" feature with screenwriting guru Syd Field has been expanded to include expertise from television writer Larry Brody, playwright Jon Dorf, and WGAw's The Creative Rights Handbook.

If You`re Still Using Final Draft 4 or 5, here are some other features you've been missing:

• Customizable reports
• Format assistant
• Improved Final Draft Courier font
• Built for OS X and designed for Windows XP
• ScriptCompare
• Ability to save in (and email) Adobe PDF format
• Smart drag and drop
• ScriptNotes
• Updated TV templates
• Script registry: Final Draft is a preferred file format and the only scriptwriting software with an authorized agreement with the WGAw online registry service.

Customer Reviews

Final Draft... Financial Disappointment
I'm a writer, here's my story. I bought Final Draft mainly because I felt I needed to upgrade from Microsoft Works or get left behind. Well, I've worked with Final Draft for a while, and to be honest I do not think it was worth the $150.00 dollars + postage. It's very hard to format scripts, especially ones that had been saved in other formats - it adds all these extra spaces and it's terribly time consuming to remove them. Also, it sometimes adds in a character heading when one isn't needed and it's very difficult to get rid of those showing up all the time.
I cannot figure out how to use the Tagger part at all. The most disappointing part for me was that it DOES NOT read the scripts back - it does however save your script in a new format that you cannot add to. And finally my last complaint is that the disk explaining how to use it is NOT INCLUDED and sells for $30.00 extra bucks. Now, maybe it's just my computer - it's an Everex with Microsoft Windows XP that's not even a year old. Maybe it's just my bad luck.

screenwriting format
This software is excellent for formatting screenplays. Technical support answered my naive questions. Highly recommend.

Displeased
Unfortunately, I decided to send the product back.
I ran into some glitches from the start. So, I figured
this isn't for me. It was supposed to be easy, but, it
was not. Then, I found out that if I wanted tech support,
I would have to pay after only twenty minutes of free assistance.
That alone was reason enough to send the item back. To charge at
both ends is ridiculous, at least that's my opinion.