3 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
 THE BEST, 2003-09-13
ITS EASY AND EFFECTIVE. DONT SETTLE FOR ANYTHING LESS THAN THIS. IT IS THE BEST SCRIPTWRITING SOFTWARE AVAILABLE!
6 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
 Makes Screenwriting MUCH easier!!!, 2003-08-30
This is a great piece of software - and you can tell that it was designed by screenwriters themselves! I use to type screenplays over Microsoft Word, but you'll spend way too much time trying to format everything to look like a screenplay on that app --- look no further than Final Draft to do all the labor for you!!! Allowing you to completely focus on the creative writing that you're trying to get out on paper! Apple's PDF SAVING also makes all Final Draft documents universal to send out to anyone's computer! For OS X users --- download the latest Final Draft update off of their website, so that Final Draft for OS X isn't buggy anymore
23 of 31 customers found the following review helpful:
 Better to be safe, 2003-06-26
I use an APPLE so I can't say about "PC." But I lost 5 months work because of a "bug" in Final Draft 6. I wrote the script for their competition and cannot enter b/c of buying their software. Ironic! I looked to "FD" for help but they wouldn't.. I just got emails and more emails... your message "did not process." The person at "FD" didn't even understand my questions? I got emails that my email address had changed (Nope). And to talk with someone even when its an error with their product they charge per minute. According to APPLE and a local service center, it was determined I was right it was a "FD" software problem. And a headache with authorization and deauthorization. I'm shopping on AMAZON for a new product like Movie Magic. As painful as my script loss is b/c of "FD." What hurt more was their ignoring me like I'm an idot and not interested in fixing a bug that could harm all customers. It cost to learn! Oh I did back up- No help, the problem is software and when it went it took all my text! Data recovery found a part of my script so I will rebuild from there-
18 of 22 customers found the following review helpful:
Writing is So Much Easier, 2003-06-23
As we all know, screenplays require a specific, yet quirky format. The other day, I saw a gentleman at Starbucks with his laptop putting the final touches on his screenplay. He said it took him six months to write, the main culprit being the formatting for the long duration. It turns out he was using Microsoft Word to write this thing. I could see the smoke coming out of his ears when I showed him Final Draft.I've written three screenplays since purchasing the product. It is formatted to the industry standard, and guarantees your work won't be rejected for improper formatting. Another cool feature I've taken advantage of is some television show script templates. It's very helpful if you've never written a script for TV. It may not be perfect, but it is clearly the best out there.
28 of 29 customers found the following review helpful:
 Final Draft 6 Needs Revision, 2003-03-18
Even though it remains the Hollywood standard, Final Draft 6 leaves a lot to be desired. For lack of a decent alternative, I've used this application for the better part of a decade, and it remains clumsy to use and well behind the curve of technology.The big issue: Onscreen text looks atrocious. After a year on the market, Final Draft 6 still doesn't use Mac OS X's technology to render beautiful anti-aliased text. Third-party fixes, like Silk, work only halfway to solve Final Draft's shortcomings. But should an application that costs $ need fixing at all? Unacceptable. And beware of WYSIWYDG, or "What You See Is What You Don't Get." You might find the perfect font in the Font Menu, but good luck applying it to your screenplay. Worse, there are occasional text hiccups, where the text-rendering is garbled and screen redrawing is skewed. 'Authorization' remains a nuisance, too. (Bet you didn't remember to 'deauthorize'�before a system reinstall or upgrade.) I know of no other software that requires such an unwieldy process just to stay running smoothly. Final Draft 6 is still better than a typewriter or a standard word processor for writing scripts, but not by much. Considering the steep price, maybe it's time to revisit the competition.
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