Archive for the 'Screenwriting Software' Category

• e  36 Startups and slippery facts

  Since I was name-checked twice this interview from the top-ranked Wharton School of Business, I feel some responsibility to point out a few fallacies and follies.

• e  23 Final Draft update adds highlighting, quicker PDFs

  Final Draft adds a few useful features.

• e  22 Adobe Story, an early look

  A quick look at Adobe Story, the new screenwriting application from the Photoshop folks.

• e  73 Final Draft 8, briefly

  Final Draft 8 is largely identical to FD7, with some better chrome. If you’re happy with FD7, the addition of a fairly useful navigator and a new XML file format may or may not be enough reason to upgrade.

• e  23 WEHT Sophocles?

  A reader from Belgium writes:

  I am a dedicated user of Sophocles. Indeed, my new film, its breakdown, call sheets, budget and whatnot have been generated with that software, which I find the best, most complete, film-minded and reliable that I have ever used (and I used or tried about everything that is out there since [...]

• e  13 The Unnecessary General

  In Final Draft, what do you use the “General” element for? The manual describes its function negatively, saying only that it’s for whatever doesn’t fit into the other elements. Personally, I haven’t found a use for it yet and was wondering what the pros use it for.

  – Richard Budd

  As far as I know, [...]

• e  40 Title page trouble with Final Draft .pdfs

  Reader Josh C wrote in with one solution to a problem that’s been frustrating me for months. When you want to save a script as a .pdf, Final Draft won’t always include the title page. It’s frustratingly inconsistent. The obvious workaround is to save the title page as a separate file, which is [...]