Zach also developed the popular movie/tv production iOS app Shot Lister, which makes him the perfect candidate for this software review.įinal Draft has the infamous title of being the industry's standard screenwriting app. It has always suffered the burden of being the first to market, and slowest to adapt.

Finally in FD9, a redesigned and improved navigator creates a mostly useful and pleasant experience.įinal Draft 9 has recently been released and I spent the last week playing with its new features.Īs with most software of a certain vintage, updates can turn an interface into a cluttered mess of new features piled on top of old ones. Now the navigator contains three tabs: Scene, ScriptNotes, and Characters. The Scene tab cleanly displays all your scenes in an efficient list on the top, and the current scene's details on the bottom. Most of these features are in FD8, but they're now presented in a much more useful way.

You can now also easily filter the list to quickly find a specific scene. The ScriptNotes tab greatly improves this previously terrible feature from FD8. Like the Scene tab, I never used ScriptNotes before, but in FD9 its quite easy to add notes to your script.

A color-coded flag appears on the page when you've added a note, or you can add general notes that aren't page-specific. You can also create your own categories of notes, such as 'Dialogue' or 'Action.' The tab displays all the notes in a list so you can quickly navigate to them and cross them off. I don't think this feature is built to be used in collaboration with others, as you would need to send your master FDX file back and forth, but it did work quite well for tracking my own thoughts while I wrote. The Character tab is a new feature that lists all the scenes with a specific character. It auto-detects each scene based on dialogue, but you can also manually add characters to non speaking scenes. This window is very customizable and allows you to track individual character arcs on a scene by scene basis. I did find this tab useful for quickly hopping through the script to track how one character evolves.įinal Draft has always had quite a good array of options for exporting and two additions are welcome new choices. In an effort to reduce paper, you can now export a PDF with the revision colour as the page background colour. So the PDF looks just like it would if printed on colored paper.

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