New app works great with my Retina display and I can now use full screen mode! Love the new screenwriting goodies like Character Navigator where I can develop character arcs. Thanks for thinking about what screenwriters really need. Cheers to FD9
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Description
Write movie and TV scripts, stage plays, and new media with Final Draft – the entertainment industry-standard application that combines powerful word processing with professional script formatting.
“Final Draft makes it possible to simply imagine the movie in script form.” - Tom Hanks — Writer / Director / Producer / Academy Award®-winner
There is no need to learn about script formatting rules – Final Draft automatically formats your script to industry standards as you write.
Works seamlessly with the new Final Draft Writer app for iPad (sold separately).
TOP WRITING FEATURES INCLUDE:
* Scene View - Outline your script and reorder scenes using a simple drag-and-drop interface.
* Navigator – View, sort and filter the important details of your scenes, Scriptnotes and Characters.
* Index Cards - Easily outline your story and restructure your script one scene at a time.
* ScriptNotes – Make general or element specific color-coded notes that won’t affect your script’s pagination.
* Templates – Over 100 classic and current television shows, screenplay, stageplay, and graphic novel templates are available with the option to customize your own.
* Pagination - Final Draft paginates your script perfectly to industry standards universally for OSX, PC or iPad.
* Watermarking in Printing and PDF Options - You can print your watermarked script to any printer with standardized paper size or save directly to PDF in flawless script format.
* Panels System - Split your screen in half so you can view scene outlines while simultaneously writing your script.
* Final Draft Courier Font - We have created the ideal screenwriting font that is easy to read while meeting industry requirements.
* Writing Management - Check content youve written to help you manage your writing goals.
* Format Assistant - After youre finished with your first draft, run Format Assistant to make sure there are no formatting errors.
* Retina and Full Screen Support - Benefit from the convenience of distraction-free writing in full screen mode, as well as retina display compatibility.
* Mac OSX Dictation Support - Mac’s built-in OSX dictation feature works with Final Draft allowing for hands-free writing that’s as fast as your ideas.
“I’d ... like to acknowledge the debt I owe to the Final Draft software, without which I’d still be using Wite-Out® on the shooting script for A Few Good Men.”
Aaron Sorkin — Writer / Producer / Emmy® winner / Tony®-winner / Academy Award®-winner - The Social Network, Charlie Wilsons War, The West Wing (TV)
TOP PRODUCTION FEATURES INCLUDE:
* Title Page - Create and easily include a professional Title Page with your script.
* Revision Mode - Revise your script as often as youd like. Save different revisions for production purposes.
* Page Locking - Omit scenes, lock pages and A-pages, and set revision colors. You can take your script all the way from concept to final production.
* Colored Production Pages for Revisions - Colored border allows for writing ease, with solid color production pages in PDF for distribution.
* Character Highlighting – Use to highlight specific characters’ lines for table reads or when writing to track characters’ dialogue.
* Customizable Reporting - Final Draft offers you seven different reports for production including Scene, Character, and Location reports. Print or email reports separately from your script.
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“Final Draft makes it possible to simply imagine the movie in script form.” - Tom Hanks — Writer / Director / Producer / Academy Award®-winner
There is no need to learn about script formatting rules – Final Draft automatically formats your script to industry standards as you write.
Works seamlessly with the new Final Draft Writer app for iPad (sold separately).
TOP WRITING FEATURES INCLUDE:
* Scene View - Outline your script and reorder scenes using a simple drag-and-drop interface.
* Navigator – View, sort and filter the important details of your scenes, Scriptnotes and Characters.
* Index Cards - Easily outline your story and restructure your script one scene at a time.
* ScriptNotes – Make general or element specific color-coded notes that won’t affect your script’s pagination.
* Templates – Over 100 classic and current television shows, screenplay, stageplay, and graphic novel templates are available with the option to customize your own.
* Pagination - Final Draft paginates your script perfectly to industry standards universally for OSX, PC or iPad.
* Watermarking in Printing and PDF Options - You can print your watermarked script to any printer with standardized paper size or save directly to PDF in flawless script format.
* Panels System - Split your screen in half so you can view scene outlines while simultaneously writing your script.
* Final Draft Courier Font - We have created the ideal screenwriting font that is easy to read while meeting industry requirements.
* Writing Management - Check content youve written to help you manage your writing goals.
* Format Assistant - After youre finished with your first draft, run Format Assistant to make sure there are no formatting errors.
* Retina and Full Screen Support - Benefit from the convenience of distraction-free writing in full screen mode, as well as retina display compatibility.
* Mac OSX Dictation Support - Mac’s built-in OSX dictation feature works with Final Draft allowing for hands-free writing that’s as fast as your ideas.
“I’d ... like to acknowledge the debt I owe to the Final Draft software, without which I’d still be using Wite-Out® on the shooting script for A Few Good Men.”
Aaron Sorkin — Writer / Producer / Emmy® winner / Tony®-winner / Academy Award®-winner - The Social Network, Charlie Wilsons War, The West Wing (TV)
TOP PRODUCTION FEATURES INCLUDE:
* Title Page - Create and easily include a professional Title Page with your script.
* Revision Mode - Revise your script as often as youd like. Save different revisions for production purposes.
* Page Locking - Omit scenes, lock pages and A-pages, and set revision colors. You can take your script all the way from concept to final production.
* Colored Production Pages for Revisions - Colored border allows for writing ease, with solid color production pages in PDF for distribution.
* Character Highlighting – Use to highlight specific characters’ lines for table reads or when writing to track characters’ dialogue.
* Customizable Reporting - Final Draft offers you seven different reports for production including Scene, Character, and Location reports. Print or email reports separately from your script.
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Application availability
Available in countries
| Country | Price |
|---|---|
| USA | 199.99 USD |
Available for devices
MacDesktop,Reviews
Final Draft has Delivered!
Amazing Improvements on Something Already Amazing!
Final Draft 9 knocks it out of the part! The improvements to this application are a true blessing during all aspects of the writing process. The Navigator has made drastic improvements that help from planning ideas to rewriting. Allowing you to follow storylines, character development and overall scene order. It’s just astounding. Color coded script notes really help you speed thru your script analyzing and finding exactly what you need. Like any great screenplay, it’s the little things that count and Final Draft has put huge thought into those small things. From Character Replacement allowing you to with the click of a button swap out a characters name. Watermarking. And even Character Highlighting. All simple things that make a huge difference in workflow of a writer. Also love using with Mac’s Dictation allowing me to sit back and write with my mouth. And as a MacBook Pro Retina user, the addition of retina support and fullscreen mode make the whole process beautiful and worthy of staring at for hours on end.
BUGGY
You would think that for the cost, this software would be less prone to random crashes. Want to change a character name? Crash. Want to export a .pdf that includes your revisions? Crash. Want to save? Crash. If this wasn’t the only software that everyone seems so in love with and we all had to use, I’d be using something else. Very, very annoyed.
buggy, crashes more than it used to
i’ve used Final Draft for 8 years now, on various macs. most recently on my Macbook Air and 2014 Mac Pro. Final Draft now crashes all the time while writing. Really frustrating. How is my word processor crashing more than photoshop and final cut pro in 2014?! I recommend turning autosave to 3 minutes. Also, i’ve been hitting Command-S after almost each line.
Good app, but support is weak
Final Draft is a nice app, and it does it’s job well. And if that’s as far as this review went, I’d give it 5 stars. I have knocked off two stars because of a surprisingly negative tech support experience. FD9 has a ‘Backup’ command on its File menu, and it turns out to be pretty useful. I write just about every day, and I sometimes find it useful to go back to a screenplay in process as it existed several days ago—in some cases, I want to check something as it existed a month (or longer) ago. So, in addition to my current working draft, I keep daily ‘snapshots’ of a screenplay, which I create using the Backup command on the File menu. The Backup command is disabled in FD9 by default, since the app does its own automatic backups. As long as auto-backup is enabled, the Backup command in the File menu does nothing. However, these auto-backups are stored in an OS X library folder that is very difficult to get to, so I prefer to create my snapshot files manually. According to the documentation, the Backup command is enabled when auto-backups are turned off in FD9’s preferences. And that’s the way it works in my old FD9 copy, which I had purchased directly from Final Draft Inc. I have switched to a copy purchased from the App Store, and I couldn’t get the Backup command working. So, I contacted Final Draft for technical support. I explained my problem, and I was told in reply that I should use ‘Save As’ for making backups. I have previously learned from painful experience what a bad idea that would be. On more than one occasion, I have forgoetten to ‘switch back’ the ‘Save As’ to the name of my current working draft. The result has been that new work goes to the snapshot file, rather than the current draft—the dreaded “My work has disappeared!” That’s what makes the Backup command so nice—it doesn’t change the target file for saves. I explained this as nicely as I could in a response email, and I was told again to use ‘Save As’. The email said that the Backup command was designed only to protect against a hard drive failure. That’s curious, since the command doesn’t do anything at this point, and the auto-backup feature saves backups to a file location the average Mac user probably couldn’t find. It has led me to the conclusion that the support rep had no idea why the Backup command isn’t working and tried to blow me off. So, if one simply doesn’t understand how to use a basic feature of the program, I suppose the support team can do a decent job of addressing the issue. But if a user comes across an actual bug in the app, the support people simply can’t be bothered. And by the way, if Final Draft, Inc. is reading this review, the support ticket number is 3939496.
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