Final Draft is a must for a serious screenwriter. It is the number one selling screenwriting software available today. It comes with strong recommendations from industry giants such as Tom Hanks("Saving Private Ryan"), Ben Stiller("There's Something About Mary"), and Alan Ball("American Beauty").
Designed for those writing movies, television shows, and plays, Final Draft is a specialized word processor. This duo allows writers to focus on the story, and not worry about the formatting or other presentation details.
Final Draft has many unique features such as "Smart Type" which remembers and automatically fills in character names, scene headings, transitions and more. The feature "Panels" helps with storyboarding, allowing you to see the outline version of your story as you write the script. "Pagination" which automatically formats and paginates to industry standards. Without this proper format, many agents and producers will simply junk a submitted script instead of spending any time reading it.
A useful tool, Final Draft assists you in turning your creative ideas into a polished script, ready for the screen. And as for any writer, time is priceless, especially if it interferes with one's creativity. But, the time taken to learn how to work with Final Draft will be well worth it as it will significantly decrease the time it takes to finish a script.
Tutorials are available on the Web, to help learn how to make the most use out of Final Draft.
All in all, Final Draft Version 8
is "the choice" for screenwriting. It's the professional's pick. For the serious writer, Final Draft is a must have writing tool and an essential element that can take writing to a whole new level.
