Audience

Screenwriters and film makers

About Final Draft

Used by 95% of film and television productions. Final Draft is the choice of professional screenwriters and filmmakers around the world. Final Draft® 11 automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards allowing writers to focus on what they do best: writing. Collaborate simultaneously with your writing partners IN REAL TIME - around the corner - or around the world. Speech to Script customizes Mac’s Dictation feature so you can write your screenplay without ever touching a keyboard. Use SmartType to cut down on keystrokes by auto-filling commonly used names, locations and more. Insert images on title pages, in the script or even in the Beat Board to help visualize your story. Use Alternate Dialogue to store as many different versions of lines as you can imagine. Eliminate distractions and get down to business with night mode.

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Overall 2.0 / 5
ease 3.0 / 5
features 3.0 / 5
design 2.0 / 5
support 2.0 / 5
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Windows
Mac
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Documentation
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Phone Support
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Final Draft Product Features

Screenwriting

Notes
Import PDF / Documents / Files
Outlining
Track Changes
Version Control
Collaboration Tools
Speech to Text
Insert Images
Alternate Dialogue / Lines
Tagging / Filtering

Final Draft Verified User Reviews

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  • Mick F.
    Filmmaker
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 1 - 25
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    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
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    "No support for South East Asian languages"

    Posted 2024-12-07

    Pros: Formats just like standard Hollywood script and has a few nice reformatting features and scene/character reports.

    Cons: You can't hot key element type but have to mouse navigate; any imported scripts (even if output by final draft) have to have each element hand adjusted among other manual changes.
    There is zero support for languages with 'orbital' vowels and consonants - Particularly Thai and Khmer. I have opened numerous support requests and am always told it will be supported in a future version but has not been considered as of interest by their development team for over 5 years now.
    Both languages support unicode - word and open office and celtx all support but not final draft - and you can't paste in either - you just get non printing characters even if the system supports this languages for every other app (Windows 10 latest updates).
    So every script I work on in SE Asia has to be translated into english to format in final draft exported and translated back and then manually formatted to match the Hollywood 'paramount' format final draft provides. The developers are paid to work, right? All real software supports internationalization right? 😡😡

    Overall: Useful but frustrating.

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