KeynotePro.com Announces Upgraded PitchBoards Themes with Final Draft AV Compatibility

Asheville, NC – January 8, 2004

KeynotePro is pleased to announce the immediate availability of their updated PitchBoards Themes, which now include full compatibility with Keynote™ presentations exported from Final Draft AV, the acclaimed dual-column, audio-visual scriptwriting software from Final Draft Inc., This provides creative professionals with a complete preproduction solution for scripting and storyboarding. The combination of Final Draft AV and Pitchboards using the eye-popping graphic capabilities of Apple’s Keynote™ software, gives professionals all the tools they need to take their ideas to market. For information and downlaods, go to www.keynotepro.com.

Designed with film and video professionals in mind, PitchBoards leverages the power and ease of use of Apple's Keynote™ application to make building storyboard and pitch presentations fast and flexible. Along with the general purpose slide masters found in any Keynote™ theme, Pitch-Boards now includes up to 32 additional slide masters for the most popular aspect ratios used in film and video production today - all ready-to-use storyboard layouts waiting for your content.

Final Draft AV enables you to write dual-column scripts easily, without the need for complex tables or extensive re-formatting. Columns stay aligned as scenes/shots are added, edited, inserted or deleted. It also includes a customizable header and footer, a full-featured spell-checker and thesaurus, import and export capabilities with other word processors as well as 100% cross-platform compatibility.

Using the powerful combination of Final Draft AV, Keynote™ and Pitchboard, creative professionals can simply create scripts in Final Draft AV, export to Keynote™, select one of the PitchBoards themes and bring the script to life by adding video clips, audio tracks or images. Advertising creatives, documentary producers, DV and industrial filmmakers, news and speechwriters have all had to struggle with the rigors of using standard word processors and graphics programs to create and present professional-looking audio-video scripts. They now have an easy-to-use preproduction solution to match their creative standards.

PitchBoards is available for immediate download in a Classic version ($19.95) contains slide masters for 4:3 and 3:2 (Television and DV) aspect ratios, and an expanded Pro version ($28.95) includes masters for 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 1.85:1, 2.35:1 and IMAX aspect ratios. Both versions include Final Draft AV optimized slides, as well as a Supplemental Layouts file with more complex layouts pre-assembled - ready to drag and drop into your presentation with all supporting text already in place. This is a Free Update to all registered PitchBoards users.

About KeynotePro
KeynotePro offers high quality "Keynote Themes for Professionals" through our website at www.keynotepro.com. The KeynotePro site and themes are brought to you by The Walrus Group, an award-winning multi-disciplinary design firm headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina. You can find out more about the Walrus Group at our website: www.walrusgroup.com.

About Final Draft Inc.
Final Draft, Inc. was founded in 1991 to develop a scriptwriting program that allows the writer to concentrate on the creative process and not on Hollywood's stringent formatting rules. Since then, Final Draft has become the Hollywood professional's choice and the world's #1-selling scriptwriting program. As technology changes, the company continues to evolve and adapt its products. Final Draft won the 2000 Golden Satellite Award for Best Interactive CD-ROM.

Final Draft is the software of choice of such industry giants as Alan Ball, Tom Hanks, Oliver Stone, J.J. Abrams and Michael Bay. Television shows such as "The Sopranos", "The West Wing", "Band of Brothers", "Sex and the City", and "Six Feet Under", feature films such as "Titanic", "Forrest Gump" and any of the "Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter" and recent James Bond movies are all the results of scripts written with Final Draft. Through its partnership with other companies, Final Draft, Inc. continues its commitment to making all facets of the production workflow run smoother, from concept to writing to scheduling and budgeting to shooting to non-linear editing.

Final Draft, Inc. also publishes Final Draft AV, the only dedicated multi-column script processor specifically designed for writing commercials, corporate videos, documentaries, presentations, DV shorts, etc. More information about the company is available at www.finaldraft.com.

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