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(More customer reviews)The use of a script formatting programme such as Final Draft 6.0 is a bit of an indulgence if you simply want to generate a decent looking piece of work. Setting up a Word template and a set of paragraph styles will do the job very adequately. Beats a Selectric anyway.
What Final Draft 6.0 is all about, is the automatic adjustment of a script's format so that when re-writes or revisions are made, the document will be appropriately modified.
For example, working with a Word template and you have included the (more) and Joe Blow ( continued) tags, to get the dialogue across a page-break, these will remain in place even if they are not required after an edit or an addition or a rearrangement of scenes. Final Draft 6.0 will delete or include these tags as you proceed. And with line spacings kept as they should be.
Final Draft 6.0's other big feature is its analysis capability. So if Harlan Ellison and Bll Shatner had been running this application when Bill was reading through `The City on the Edge of Forever' script at Harlan's house, Bill could have, with a click or two of the mouse, discovered how many lines that he and Leonard Nimoy had between them and saved a lot of reading and mental arithmetic time. Which is what Final Draft is all about for the serious or professional writer. The saving of time when you need to know what,where, and how much of, a script contains, and the avoidance of a lot of tiresome manual tweaking.
At its most basic, Final Draft, will dispense with the need for a multitude of keystrokes in a word processor, since mostly the tab and enter keys are used. Most of these formatters use this approach in one way or another.
A file can be saved as an RTF ( rich text format ) for delivery to those not running Final Draft, and you can also export a script to PDF for peace of mind, if you want others to see and print the script as you do. Another useful feature is the ability to take text created in a Word template and copy and paste it into Final Draft for it to apply the correct text styles to the, scene-heading, dialogue, parenthetical, and action sections, etc. This means that you don't have to worry about re-doing your pre-Final Draft scripts in Final Draft.
There are cheaper options to Final Draft 6.0, but I have found them to be either lacking in features or simply confusing and awkward to use. More time being wasted getting one's head around their idiosyncrasies, than doing anything useful.
The documentation for Final Draft 6.0 is the best of all the options that I've seen and they have even gone to the bother of creating their own font - Courier Final Draft. This font is different to Courier New 12 Pt in Word, etc. At high zoom levels, on screen, it looks good and beefy, not thin and weedy like Courier New 12 Pt . It also prints much more strongly making your script more easily readable. It's a fair simulation of a type written page. Other fonts can be substituted, but it's highly recommended that you stick to Courier to be consistent with expectations. Courier Final Draft also looks pretty much the same on PCs and Macs.
Final Draft 6.0 won't write you a better script, but it will allow you to keep your mind on the job.
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Designed for scriptwriting, Final Draft 6 software is favored by award-winning film, stage, and television writers alike. It combines word processing with industry-standard script formatting, a robust tools suite, and an improved interface.
Key among Final Draft 6's bevy of features is its complete cross-platform compatibility with Microsoft Windows and Mac, letting you work seamlessly on both platforms. Its industry-standard formatting automatically creates,edits, and inserts required script cues. The SmartType tool remembers and completes names, scene headings, transitions, and locations. Final Draft's Format Assistant identifies script-formatting errors and any inconsistencies, while a 120,000-word spell checker autocorrects spelling errors. And when it's time for rewrites, the Scene Navigator reformats your script as you write. Other tools include script suggestions that appear as pop-up windows, scene bookmarks, and outline or index-card scene views. You can even assign a voice to each character and your text turns to speech for a scene reading at your desktop.
Exclusive to Final Draft 6 is an online script registration process that lets you register and submit your screenplay directly to the Writers Guild of America. So, when your script makes it into production, use Final Draft 6 to revise and number scenes, generate reports, and export your script to other creative, editing, scheduling, and budgeting programs.
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