

IMPROVED: SCENE NAVIGATOR - Filter any information by keyword in all views of the Navigator. I’m going to list the features that Final Draft says are New & Improved and give you my take on them. So this review should be read from that perspective. Mine are pretty simple because I'm a simple guy. So I figured it’s time I gave it a review.Įveryone has different work patterns and therefore different ways they use software.

I have now used it for the past 5 months and gotten pretty familiar with some of the new features. But now that Final Draft is the industry standard I write virtually all of my scripts with it.įinal Draft 9 was released earlier this year. (See my earlier post How to Turn Microsoft Word into a Terrific Screenwriting Program to learn how to do this yourself.) After I finished the studio job that required Final Draft I went back to using Word.

Previous to that I had written hundreds of TV and film scripts with Microsoft Word which I’d modified via Styles to easily format standard screenplay margins and indents for slugs, description, characters, parentheticals, dialog, and transitions, plus shortcut keys for all of these. I was given my first copy of Final Draft many years ago by a studio that was using it.
