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Both Arc Studio Pro and Final Draft are up to the task, offering many options for formatting screenplays according to industry standards.Īrc Studio Pro has built-in industry-standard templates for feature film screenplays and television.
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The most important factor for any screenwriting software is whether or not it can produce a properly formatted screenplay. What do I love? Its ubiquity: Everybody uses it.Try Final Draft Comparison of Key Features: Script Formatting
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Final draft 9 templates pdf#Īnd 95% of the time, that’s either a PDF or, you guessed it, a Final Draft file.) (And if you’re running a script coverage service like me, you need to be able to open whatever file the client sends in. What do I hate? Well, “hate” is a strong word. I reserve that for folks like the Westboro Baptist Church, Monsanto, and shows like The Bachelor.īut what do I strongly dislike about Final Draft?ĭislike 1) Its penchant for crashing in the most inopportune moments, no matter what version I have, and no matter whether I run it on my PC or my Mac. Someone who’s worked in IT, designed networks, and built and repaired pc’s and macs for 30 years, AKA “a total computer dummy.”)ĭislike 2) The interface/user experience. The game has changed when it comes to simplicity and elegance.
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That “1990’s desktop” feeling permeates Final Draft, and its cousin, Movie Magic Screenwriter.
To strain a metaphor, it feels like I’m driving a 1994 Ford Taurus in the age of the Smart Car and the Mini-Cooper.ĭislike 3) The price. $250 is a big chunk of change for most screenwriters. But I don’t blame Final Draft – they’ve created and marketed a great product that basically came to dominate the screenwriting space.Īnd that wasn’t just through great marketing. There are tons of great things about Final Draft, and most folks wouldn’t dream of trading their Final Draft for another screenwriting app.īut remember 1992? That was the year Microsoft released their first Microsoft Office package. It had Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and a precursor to Outlook called Mail. If Final Draft were to suddenly cut their price from $250 to $79, granted, a lot of old school screenwriters and industry professionals who use it might – might – take pause, and question whether or not their favorite venerable screenwriting software standard has dropped some of its features.īut is Final Draft really worried about that? Yet there’s something to be said about keeping your flagship product at a premium price. In my opinion, speaking as a screenwriter and a script reader, Final Draft is missing the big boat right now.Īnd that boat is: everybody’s now a screenwriter.Ī skiff attached to that boat is the fact that those screenwriters are moving faster and faster away from the “desktop” application, and more towards tablet-based apps and mobile apps.įinal Draft appears to have caught wind of this, and has developed their Final Draft Writer app for the iPad.īut here’s the big problem: That one’s $49, which, granted, is a welcome break from the $250. (Maybe it’s there somewhere, and I need glasses.) But how many screenwriters are taking a look at their $249 version, and then their $49 version, and then wondering how much is missing from the $49? At the time of this post, Final Draft’s website didn’t really give a clear idea of how the two versions’ features compare.
Point is: Final Draft can have its $249 desktop version, and its $49 iPad version, but in my opinion, based on my experience, that price point disparity can cause confusion, among both older screenwriters and younger, more mobile-oriented screenwriters.
Now, sure, screenwriters who got their start during the heady days of the typewriter, like me and many of my generation, are probably not keen on the idea of writing a screenplay on a tablet, but for thousands of young screenwriters, writing movies on an iPad or an iPhone is not as far a leap.Īnd confused potential customers tend to abandon their shopping cart. And that’s more and more becoming the reality of screenwriting.
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