![]() If FD performed so poorly, it wouldn't be the most popular screenwriting app on the market.Īnd I disagree, strongly. Given that I continue to hear examples of stuff just not working (e.g., a recent thread where somebody complains about how FD10s spell-checker works) I'm skeptical that they're really fixed all of the stability issues. I'll believe FD has turned it around when they fix the basic foundational things with their software like unicode support. MMS wasn't really in active development, and there simply weren't any other options. The truth is that for much of the past decade, FD had what amounted to a monopoly. I think this is somewhat of a bogus argument. But Final Draft works fine as screenwriting software. You can say it's overpriced, or it doesn't have your favorite feature. ![]() If FD was so bad, top people like Jim Cameron, JJ Abrams and Aaron Sorkin would not use it. After all, FD 8 has been pretty good to me. It's not needed at all but I feel like I could definitely still have a use for it.Ĭan anyone give me some feedback as to what they think of those features? It helps that FD 10's upgrade would cost $80 instead of $100 during Thanksgiving weekend but if the new tools are crappy and need a lot of work before being a little more polished, I'll just wait it out for now. The Alternate Dialogue tool seems pretty nifty. Is this merely just a chat program within Final Draft or is there more to it than that? If both he and I had FD 10, it seems like it'd be easier to collaborate while we can't write side-by-side (if one of us is traveling for example). I like the idea of having everything be in the same documentĬollaboration: I'm in the middle of a second draft of something with a co-writer. These tools make it seem like I may be able to ditch Word entirely, which would be a plus. ![]() The Story Map and Beat Board tools: I usually break down my stories using Word. I saw that FD 10 has quite a few new features and those that interest me the most are the following: I've been using Final Draft 8 for the longest time and though I have no complaints, I was looking into maybe upgrading. ![]() No Sale of Copyrighted Material or Sharing of Confidential Material Posts Made by ( u/deleted) Accounts are Subject to Removal Observe Dedicated Weekly Threads for Loglines, Memes, Etc Provide Descriptive/Informative Titles for Posts Screenplays MUST be properly formatted/Do not post your film without the screenplay. No Contest, Coverage or Service AdvertisingĬomplaints About Paid Feedback Must Include Script and Evaluations No Socks, Trolls or Shitposting, Spam or Off-Topic Postsĭon't post personal blogs, personal websites, or unapproved self-promotion. And if you've got it, it's great for site signage.WIKI: FAQS & FORMATTING INFO AND RESOURCESĭo not personally attack fellow redditors respect privacy, be encouraging, use your manners. MS Publisher is actually really handy for accreditation if you need it - you can mail merge photos into it, so I've used it on 1000+ people events. You can get a bridge between an actual radio network and the app if you need one, that extends the range to wherever you are. Zello (app) is worth a look if you want to emulate a Walkie Talkie on your phone. ![]() Once you get it working, it can save hours of time, especially dealing with nontechnical people who think Excel is for making pretty patterns! That said, if you want to send me a bunch of exports from FD10, I'm happy to see which is the most suitable for Beyond Compare. It's a very efficient way of spotting changes, although FD script technical format is retarded, a dirty mess of markup and metadata, and a lot of metadata is inferred from formatting. The tagging within the app is better with the "tagger" tool, but again it gets dull if you're fighting revisions.Ī great tool which takes a little confidence and experience is "Beyond Compare" - a diff tool that can handle excel and other exotic formats. When they're a precious auteur who don't understand revision tracking properly and generate a version a day, I don't find it helps much. I think Final Draft is useful when the writer knows how to use it. I prefer real excel over Apple Numbers as Apple closed the format so only 15% of people can interchange sheets that way - a 5 device license for Office is a few bucks a month, but also includes 1TB of cloud storage, so better value than Dropbox. Studiobinder is shaping up to be interesting, although I think their pricing model should include a "per event" model - if I'm using it to create and distribute call sheets I'm for sure getting someone to pay for it, yet a distributed subscription model is completely useless for that.Īs you know I'm a convert to Showbiz Budgeting, and as it can track actuals too and manage petty cash envelopes, it's worth a look for anyone undecided. ![]()
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