Final Draft Description

Final Draft is the preferred software for 95% of film and television productions, making it the go-to choice for professional screenwriters and filmmakers globally. With Final Draft® 11, your script is automatically paginated and formatted to meet industry standards, allowing writers to concentrate on their core craft: storytelling. Collaborate seamlessly with writing partners in real time, whether they are just around the corner or halfway across the globe. The Speech to Script feature enhances Mac’s Dictation capability, enabling you to compose your screenplay without the need for a keyboard. SmartType minimizes keystrokes by automatically filling in frequently used names and locations, streamlining the writing process. You can also add images to title pages, within the script, or on the Beat Board to better visualize your narrative. The Alternate Dialogue feature allows you to keep track of countless variations of lines, ensuring you have every creative option at your fingertips. Lastly, night mode helps you eliminate distractions and maintain focus, creating an optimal environment for productivity. This comprehensive tool truly empowers writers to bring their visions to life.

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Final Draft Features and Options

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Alternate Dialogue / Lines
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Import PDF / Documents / Files
Insert Images
Notes
Outlining
Speech to Text
Tagging / Filtering
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  • Name: Mick F.
    Job Title: Filmmaker
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
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    No support for South East Asian languages

    Date: Dec 07 2024

    Summary: Useful but frustrating.

    Positive: Formats just like standard Hollywood script and has a few nice reformatting features and scene/character reports.

    Negative: You can't hot key element type but have to mouse navigate; any imported scripts (even if output by final draft) have to have each element hand adjusted among other manual changes.
    There is zero support for languages with 'orbital' vowels and consonants - Particularly Thai and Khmer. I have opened numerous support requests and am always told it will be supported in a future version but has not been considered as of interest by their development team for over 5 years now.
    Both languages support unicode - word and open office and celtx all support but not final draft - and you can't paste in either - you just get non printing characters even if the system supports this languages for every other app (Windows 10 latest updates).
    So every script I work on in SE Asia has to be translated into english to format in final draft exported and translated back and then manually formatted to match the Hollywood 'paramount' format final draft provides. The developers are paid to work, right? All real software supports internationalization right? 😡😡

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