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Final Draft is the world’s leading scriptwriting software. It automatically formats and paginates scripts (for film, TV, and theatre) to entertainment industry standards. Final Draft is what professional scriptwriters use, and it’s used by nearly every TV show, feature film, and theatre production.
Using Final Draft is like knowing the insider handshake. It enables an aspiring writer to create a professional-looking script like those passed around in the entertainment industry.
System Requirements
Internet connection required during installation.
Macintosh® System Requirements:
• Mac OS 10.12 Minimum OS
• Minimum 2 GB RAM
• 60 MB available hard drive space
• Internet connection required during installation
Windows® System Requirements:
• Windows 10 Minimum OS
• Minimum 1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit) • 60 MB available hard drive space
• Internet connection required during installation
New and Improved Features
New! Image Support
Insert images into your script, title page or the Beat BoardTM to help visualize your story.
New! Tagging
Track and report on customizable story elements. Breakdown scripts for scheduling and budgeting.
New! Night Mode
Quickly shift to a dark screen for easier viewing when writing.
New! Speech to Script (Mac Only)
Use the Mac’s built-in dictation with the Final Draft Speech to Script feature for hands-free writing that’s as fast as your ideas.
New! Multi-Language Support
Write in over 95 different languages.
Improved! Collaboration
Simultaneously edit your script remotely in real-time with writing partners.
Improved! Beat Board™
Add images to beats by dragging and dropping, drag content to and from the script while retaining formatting, color code with new vibrant custom colors, snap beats to grid, zoom, and export to PDF.
Improved! Story Map™
See images in your Beats and Structure Points.
Standard Features
Story Map™
Our pre-writing tool gives you a high-level view of your story that allows you to easily lay out and structure your script. Connect your Beat Board ideas to your script. Keep on track with visual guideposts to your story.
Beat Board™
Limitless mind-mapping to organize your ideas in a customizable, visual space.
Structure Points
Create your screenplay’s structure with this versatile tool that conforms to your unique writing preferences.
Collaboration Tool
Work on your script remotely in real time with your writing partner(s).
Alternate Dialogue Feature
Store alternate lines of dialogue within the script for easy reference while preserving accurate pagination.
Scene Numbering Options
Number your scenes the way you want and in line with current industry standards.
Header & Footer
Add your le name to your Header & Footer automatically.
Revision Menu Options
This improved production feature allows you to add bold text to your revision sets.
Tab and Enter functions
You can install and start using Final Draft in minutes due to the easy-to-use Tab and Enter
functionality that formats the script’s elements to industry standards.
Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts
If you prefer keyboard shortcuts and macros you’re already used to, Final Draft allows you to
customize your workflow for your writing needs.
Final Draft Courier Font
Production companies and studios need consistent page counts when they’re budgeting
a script. Final Draft uses its own Courier font to ensure identical pagination on Windows,
Macintosh and the iPad.
Templates
In addition to the standard templates that are included in the software package, the Final
Draft Template Library is updated regularly and allows registered users to download over 100
classic and current television shows, screenplay, stageplay and graphic novel templates.
Format Assistant
This writing tool checks your script for common formatting errors such as missing dialogue,
extra spaces, carriage returns and blank elements. You can set it to run every time you print or
only when you want it to.
Text to Speech
Have Final Draft read your script back to you – you can even assign different voices to your
characters. It’s like having a live script reading in your computer.
The Panels System
Like most writers, you probably need to keep a lot of ideas at the front of your mind while
you’re writing. With the Panels system, you can split your screen into separate panels and view
your script pages in one panel while you view another section of the script or your Index Cards
or Scene View in the other panel. A double-click on any scene will keep the panels in sync.
Writing Management
Use the Statistics report to check how much content you’ve completed in a writing session to
help you reach your writing goals. You can also track things such how often Character A interacts
with Character B.
Remember Workspace
If you are working with multiple drafts, it is important to make sure you are editing the correct
one. With the Workspace preference, you can have Final Draft open all the files you had open in
your last session, in the correct order.
Scene View
Scene View gives you a high-altitude look at your script and you can move scenes around to
further refine your story. Insert new scenes easily and hide or show information important to you
such as the scene’s action, title and summary. Assign colors to each scene by any criteria, such as
storyline, character, location, time of day and more. Print your scene view or just view it alongside
the script. With a double-click you can sync the script to instantly go to any scene you’ve selected.
Index Cards
Final Draft has double-sided cards that display the script’s scene on one side and the summary
on the other. The summary view allows you to enter text directly into the index card – plot points,
notes, sequence or act markers, comments, locations, blocking – anything you need to build and organize your story. These notes sync with the Scene Navigator, so any information you add
there will automatically appear on the corresponding card. Select and rearrange multiple cards at once if you need to reorder your scenes. Print your index cards directly on 3x5 or 4x6 cards for
use in the “traditional” way if you want to visualize and organize scenes outside of the application.
Double-clicking on a card in split-panel view will automatically sync the scene selected with your
script page.
Page Count Management
Final Draft offers several ways to manipulate the page count, if necessary: paragraph leading,
global line spacing adjustment, global and local indent adjustments and page margin settings.
Navigator Features
Organizing your story has never been easier with the Final Draft 10 Navigator. No longer just a Scene Navigator, the new Navigator also displays ScriptNotes™ and Characters arcs. Run a filtered search by keyword, create ScriptNotes and General Notes or construct a character’s arc via
individual Character Beats attached to particular scenes.
Scene Navigator
Manage the pace and ow of your story and keep track of every scene’s information with this
sortable, customizable floating palette. New in Final Draft 10 is the ability to filter by keyword,
allowing you to see important scene details whenever you need them.
ScriptNotes™ Navigator
This updated stand-alone application reads any Final Draft script and enables you to “tag”
elements within the script [cast, costumes, props, etc.] and export the results into most
scheduling applications. Created with the help of veteran assistant directors, producers, and unit
production managers, Tagger means no more going over a paper script again and again with
highlighters. It’s also great for stage production.
Characters Navigator
Keep track of all of your characters’ arcs via individual Character Beats assigned to particular scenes.
Non-speaking characters can be added to or deleted from any scene, helping you keep track of
everyone even if they have no lines in a certain scene.
Replace Character Names globally
No longer do you have to “find and replace” to change a character name – Final Draft will globally
change a character’s name in script elements like dialogue and action and will retain the proper
casing. It will also change the name in all metadata, such as SmartType lists and the Navigator.
Character Highlighting
Planning a table read of your screenplay? Character Highlighting will come in handy to easily
distinguish all characters’ dialogue. It is also a great feature for tracking a character’s dialogue to see
if they are being too verbose or too shy.
Colored Revised Pages
Final Draft is going green, giving you the ability to distribute your script electronically with the
colored revised production pages. When you export to PDF, revised pages are a solid Blue, Pink,
Yellow, Green, etc. When you’re working in an FDX file, the revised page will have the revision set’s
color on the left and right borders only. Writing in clean white is easy on the eyes but there will be
no doubt as to which revision set you’re working in.
Watermarking in Printing or PDF
Protect your script by identifying the recipient via a customizable watermark that displays in PDF
and on the printed pages.
Standardized Paper size
Each FDX file maintains its own correct paper size (either A4 or US Letter) no matter where it’s
opened.
Spell Checking
Checking your work has never been easier – SmartType list words are automatically integrated
in the spell-checker that features almost more than 300 new words. Additionally, the thesaurus
is now in the context menu, so a right-click will give you alternative words to help make your
description as vivid as possible.
Mac Enhancements
Mac users will benefit from the convenience of distraction-free writing in full-screen mode, as
well as Retina display compatibility. Additionally, Mac’s built-in dictation feature works with Final
Draft, allowing for hands-free writing that’s as fast as your ideas.
Windows Enhancements
The Final Draft 11 user interface is updated to the new Windows ribbon look with new buttons,
backgrounds and menus, but longtime users can have the same experience they’ve come to love
by switching back to Classic mode.