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Final Draft International Version 7.0 | 
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Category: Software
List Price: £187.99
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 473
Platforms: Windows Nt 4, Windows Xp, Windows 2000, Macintosh, Windows Me, Mac Os X
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.3
MPN: fd7
UPC: 603121840014
EAN: 0603121840007
ASIN: B0001XNGZ2
Release Date: April 30, 2004
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 More of the same September 13, 2007
Lenny (London)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have been using Final Draft since version 4 and was one of the writers who nagged the BBC into approving it as a submission format, after becoming frustrated with their insistence on MS Word. FD is still better than Word for screenplays - what isn't? - but IMHO it is not the best screenwriting program. I have upgraded FD twice since then to v5 and v6 and have recently been trying a demo of 7. I have to say I have found nothing new, useful, or greatly improved in version 7. br / br /A lot of the revisions added useless gimmicks like having the computer read your script back to you (as if a synthetic voice could ever make any script sound remotely interesting) as well as a handful of frustrating bugs. Back in v4, when FD was small and personal and you could still have conversations with the programmers I suggested adding a few basic wp functions useful for badly-self-taught typists, such as correcting transposed letters - I'm still waiting. br / br /Three years ago a script editor introduced me to Movie Magic, aka Screenwriter 2000, and today that's the one I use for all my TV scripts. It just works better than FD and is far less buggy. It has commonsense features like the ability to change the case of a highlighted block simply by pressing f12, rather than faffing about with the mouse. Note that FD just switches the case - Peter becomes pETER - but MM changes the whole word to PETER. Thats the sort of common-sense detail that makes MM easier to use than FD. br / br /Again, if in the middle of dialogue you type '(' Move Magic recognises you are going to a parenthetical and automatically adds a carriage return. After all these years and versions Final Draft 7 still doesn't! MM recognises names and capitalises them automatically, or puts them into uppercase if you like. It's just smarter than FD and less buggy. br / br /Some people grumble that Movie Magic hasn't been upgraded for years - but that's because it works fine as it is. Why fall for FD's marketing and go for the latest version, when all it does is change the design of the buttons on the menu bar? br / br /I have to say that I don't write in collaboration with anyone and so I cannot pass judgment on Collabowriter, which I think comes bundled with FD. If you have a writing partner who can't be there in person it might be useful (presuming it works.) If you're just writing a straight movie or TV script go for Movie Magic. Look for a cheap copy of FD 6 somewhere, so when you've written the script in MM you can dump it into FD for submission, as thanks to early adopters like me Final Draft is an industry standard now. The problem is in my opinion FD has used that status as an excuse to sit back on its laurels and focus on marketing rather than product improvement.
 Brilliant upgrade September 4, 2007
James Beggs (Scotland)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Have been writing professionally now for four years and have to use final draft for the BBC amongst others. I upgraded to macs recently and, therefore, had to buy FD7. I searched high and low for 6 as this is the one I've been using for quite some time and I had heard and read a lot of bad reports about 7. Not joy with 6 so I bit the bullet... br / br /And I'm glad I did... br / br /It is excellent in every way and the scene card improvement is second to none. I'm not going to go into detail as I only got it yesterday but, suffice to say, I honestly think some of the reviewers here are too hard to please. Yes, there may be faults, but there always is in these things. Give it time before you start giving it a bad rep. 5 stars.
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