Features:

  • Text to speech--have your script read back to you by assigning different voices to your characters
  • 50+ television show, movie and stageplay templates are included, complete with characters and locations
  • No need to learn about script formatting rules--automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards as you write
  • Word processing combined with professional script formatting; designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics, and stage plays
  • 100-percent cross-platform compatibility; easily import/export files, and collaborate on a script with other Final Draft users anywhere in the world via the Internet
  • Word processing combined with professional script formatting; designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics, and stage plays
  • No need to learn about script formatting rules--automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards as you write
  • 100-percent cross-platform compatibility; easily import/export files, and collaborate on a script with other Final Draft users anywhere in the world via the Internet
  • 50+ television show, movie and stageplay templates are included, complete with characters and locations
  • Text to speech--have your script read back to you by assigning different voices to your characters
BE SURE TO GET THE MOST RECENT UPGRADE OF 'FINAL DRAFT.' IT'S GREAT SOFTWARE.

I love this software but it's obsolete now. I just upgraded to a more current edition. I prefer it to Movie Magic. Each one claims they are the Hollywood Standard. IMHO, Final Draft is winning.

Final Draft is the best

Final Draft is simply the best screenwriting software out there and as a long time writer and a long time Final Draft user, this version definitely holds up.

Final Draft is Great, There's a More Affordable Option

I bought Final Draft 7 a few years ago for screen writing purposes. It's a great product. However, it's pricey, and many budding novelists and screenwriters are on limited budgets. I've recently discovered software that is elegant, intuitive, remarkably easy to use while also being incredibly versatile, and it costs about 10 times less than Final Draft. It offers the similar features and more. It's called Scrivener. It's Mac native, but the Windows Beta is being shipped in the spring. Trial versions of both are available at their website "literatureandlatte(dot)com". Created mainly with novelists in mind, it includes templates for many other types of writing including thesis styles, recipe books, essays, AND movie and TV screenplays. It may have more features than you need. Google the product name and take it for a test drive. For the cost-conscious, Scrivener might do everything you need it to do. Once you've written your work, the software compiles it and saves it. Again, multiple output formats are available including PDF. Bonus: everything you write in Scrivener is fully exportable in its editable state to many formats, INCLUDING Word and Final Draft 7 and 8! So you can't go wrong. If you try Scrivener and find you want the full-features of Final Draft, you're out less than $50 bucks (there are various discounts for educators, etc) and your work is still usable when you upgrade to Final Draft. Double Bonus: if you participate in and win NaNoWrimo, and can wait until November 2011 to buy, assuming the company continues this practice in 2011, you may be eligible for a very generous discount off the purchase price. (To win NaNoWriMo, participants upload 50,000 words of fiction by the 30th of November to the NaNo website.) I won this year (2010), and with the discount, I got mine for less than $25.

There's a reason it's a standard,...

There's a reason it's standard issue in the screenwriting world.

User friendly

Having tried to read on proper fundamentals on writing a screenplay, I found this product both reliable and user friendly. As a person, over 50 and no screen writing background this has been a great asset and easy to use for a beginner. But also note it is reliable tool for the more advance writers as well.

It's a wonderful script writing tool

I had the program before. It's a wonderful script writing tool.

Thanks for this wonderful tool!

I have little discipline, so I haven't used my Final Draft as much as I'd like. Though when I have used it, I have found it to do everything I want it to do. I'm still learning the screenwriting process, and from what I've learned, there are some special techniques that I have found that this software doesn't allow you to do, namely in the way of specialized types of slug lines. This version of Final Draft seems to work best with the general master shot type of writing. Still, I've learned how to get around it. I love my Final Draft.

Easy to use

Great package - easy to use

Best Thing Ever

Final Draft 7 professional is a great screenwriting software. Before I purchased mine, I had the privillege to use a friends'. Having asked around what would be ideal amongst the numerous screenwriting softwares my professor in school gave me an orientation of Final Draft 7 professional. It is "Simply The Best, Better Than The Rest;"...Tina Turner. I decided to purchase mine now for use soon as I purchase a Mac computer by February ending. I have a PC at present but I need to embrace the Mac for all it has to offer. I will bet my money on this product for its' utmost satisfaction!!! Sincerely, Ifeanyi Paul Nwokedi

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