You can now use Beat Board functions in collaboration with other members of the writing team.Flow lines highlights beats and creates connections between them.A track changes function keeps track of all edits during script development letting you accept or reject any changes at will.An associated Outline Editor gives you a bird’s eye view of your script during development. After creating an outline, you can send it to script and see using Outline Elements show or hide up to 5 outline levels directly inside the script.So having established if you write scripts (and therefore probably already use a previous version of Final Draft) what extras has version 12 thrown into the mix? There is even a mobile version available for the iPad / iPhone (but sadly not Android). For example if you are writing for a BBC TV screenplay, the required style is right there as a template. The fact (according to the Final Draft folk) that 95% of the entertainment industry uses Final Draft is testament to its popularity, caused by its flexibility – not the least being access to over 300 templates designed specifically not just for generalised scriptwriting but also for screenplays, teleplays, comics,, graphic novels and stage plays based on actual models. Whilst you can use a tool such as Microsoft Word to create a formatted script for a movie, TV show, documentary, play, radio show or whatever, and certainly it is more than capable to do that, to create all the style sheets, macros and so-on to realise the exact formatting you need depending on the project would take days if not weeks (been there done that!)Īdditionally, all the extra niceties Final Draft allows such as brainstorming, visualising, tagging, outlining, script notes, “beat boards” and more are not really viable or even available in Word. If you are new to this biz and have no idea what Final Draft is, or is about, the next few paragraphs will fill you in. There is absolutely no question it is the pre-eminent tool for screenwriting and now, it has just reached its 12 th iteration with Final Draft 12 released for both Mac and Windows. As long as I have been writing about video, film making and all the bits and pieces that go along with that, there has been Final Draft.
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