Buy Final Draft 8.0 International (Mac/PC CD)Final Draft 8.0 International (Mac/PC CD) Product Description:
- No need to learn about script formatting rules. Final Draft automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards as you write
- New XML file format for compatibility with a wide variety of other products
- Have your script read back to you by assigning different male and female voices to each of your characters with text-to-speech
- Television show, screenplay, stage play and graphic novel templates are included to help get you started
- Easy-to-use package specifically designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics and stage plays
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
By Davina Elliott
Thia ia the perfect software for Screenwriting. It lays out the correct format, and has so many time saving devices. It comes with an easy to follow users guide on the CDROM, complete with a tutorial. The thesaurus is more limited than that on say WORD, as is its vocabulary which leads to a lot of red lines under words it doesn't know, but you can tell the dictionary to "learn" words. There are some features I have yet to understand and some which I'm not so keen on, but overall it's made a huge difference to writing my screenplay.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
By Ian M
After spending a long time trying to write using MS Word I decided to look into professional script formatting programs. Eventually I downloaded the demo of Final Draft. I had read about it being the industry standard but was a bit skeptical of the hype, but that was before I used it properly. Final Draft 8 is very simple to use and results are quick thanks to its intuitive use of smart type; now I only need to type a character name once and then the name is saved in a database for later use. This also applies to scene headings as well. This gives me more time to actually write my screenplays. Included in the software is the ability to use index cards to outline your scripts, this is a digital version of using paper cards. I can write a scene description or dialogue and then add it straight into the script. I can arrange my screen space so I can have my script on one side and the index cards on the other. This is great for seeing what upcoming scenes I have planned and can also colour code the cards which I use for pacing. One of my favourite features is the ability to have your computer read your screenplay out loud to you. Its almost like having a table read with real actors. I can also customise the tool bar to suit my needs; such as thesaurus, styles and send to script. Saving files in various formats is seamless, making Final Draft 8 great for collaborative writing as your partner may be using a different program and for sending out to readers In conclusion I feel that Final Draft 8 is a must buy package for anybody serious about writing screenplays. I would recommend this software to anybody and have no hesitation in giving it a 5 star rating.
30 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
By Lenny
I wrote a review last year on Amazon of FD7 after using the demo for some time... you can look it up. Basically I felt FD7 compared unfavourably with Movie Magic Screenwriter, which is more much intuitive and sensible, with extremely helpful customer support and a far simpler system of online validation. I suggested writers should stick with FD6 as FD7 offered no substantial advantages.For some dumb reason I recently upgraded to FD8 on impulse, and found that not only had it still not improved, it had actually appeared to lose some basic features.I am a self-taught typist and like many self-taught typists I often hit CAPS LOCK, and looking at the keyboard rather than the screen, don't notice till I've written two sentences that way.In FD6 you could fix that, though once you highlighted the section you had to use the mouse to switch case. I've been asking Final Draft for years for a keyboard option to switch case. But in FD8 the function seemed to have vanished altogether.There is still no option for automatically capitalising character names in the action. There is still no way to type the Euro sign using the Euro key on a standard UK keyboard.And considering that accurate page count is pretty important when you are submitting a TV script, why is it a script that runs at 88 pages in Final Draft 8 comes out at 96 pages in Final Draft 6?In a brief exchange of emails with FD support, I learned that the disappearance of the 'Toggle Case' toolbar button was a bug they intended to fix. (A bug that big in a major release? Anything else lurking in the woodwork?) And that there is a Euro sign in the font, but to insert it I had to type Alt-0128 (I think!) on the keypad - the way we used to do with FD4, 5, 6 and 7. So much for progress.All the other issues that bugged me as an FD user are still there.FD7 and 8 offer outlining tools that some people might find useful. But FD8 introduces a new file format which is not readable by old versions of Final Draft, which looks suspiciously like a ploy to get all the company's users to upgrade. You can still save in the old formats, however.Contacting Final Draft I was told that I should buy Version 8 because they are withdrawing support for FD6, and that they 'cannot guarantee' FD6 will work under Windows Seven. Clearly they are hoping users will not know that Windows Seven will have an XP emulation mode for old programs, or for programs made obsolete by companies who will do anything to squeeze more revenue out of their customers, short of listening to what they want.In my first draft of this review I gave FD8 two stars because of the bugs. I'd like to promote it to three stars because FD Tech Support came back to me the same day (albeit with the wrong information) because it does the job it claims to do, ie lay out your script in an industry-standard format, and because it didn't crash or mangle my script the few times I used it. However Amazon won't let me add stars retrospectively.Maybe I shouldn't anyway. Final Draft 8.0 is expensive, buggy and doesn't do the job as well as its nearest rival, Screenwriter. I intend to go on writing my stuff in Screenwriter and passing it through FD6 so I can submit it to my clients in the format that regrettably has become the industry standard... for now.
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