Final Draft is text-processing software built exclusively for film and television screenplays. If you build scripts and don’t want to deal with formatting manually, that’s acceptable. Spell-checking is available for multiple languages, with the exception of Russian, which is a minor inconvenience but not a major issue. You can also use macros, display headers and footers, give computer voices to characters, and incorporate text-to-speech.
The program also generates reports, keeps a name database, checks scripts for formatting mistakes, communicates with other writers (for example, easily creating a new session or connecting to someone else’s), and compares script versions to rapidly identify discrepancies.
If you want to try all of this goodness, you may download Final Draft from the URL provided below. The archive contains a key or crack to activate the full version; we’ll be there for you.
I’d like to highlight the following points:
- Hotkeys for the primary script blocks.
- Scene notes to prevent keeping everything in your brain and creating separate files.
- Auto-formatting and pagination based on film industry standards
- Editing after revision or during filming, with regard to the original text.
- Index cards for script elements; remarks from cards can be quickly transferred to the document.
- Multilingual grammar and spell check, covering American and British English.
