Reviews & Seal of Excellence Winners VISUAL FX

September, 2002
By Bijan Tehrani

FINAL DRAFT 6

If you are planning to write a script for an animated movie or television show and plan to submit that work to a production company, then you need to use a professional screenplay formatting software. Final Draft has become the ultimate formatting software for both professional and would-be scriptwriters. Not only does it easily handle scene numbers,‘mores’and ‘continueds,’as well as industry standard pagination, it is as easy to use as a word-processing program. FD 6 almost magically discovered my errors and omissions.

GOOD NEWS: The CollaboWriter feature of Final Draft allows for online collective screenplay writing. You can share your story with a co-writer or a group of writers though its cross-platform compatible chat window.

WISH LIST: I would like to see animation screenplays in the online help and printed materials, and a more up-to-date chat window.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Final Draft simplifies and expedites the screenplay writing process for professionals and helps beginners avoid shameful formatting errors.

WEB ADDRESS: www.finaldraft.com

FINAL SCORE *****

Animation Magazine’s Seal of Excellence
EASE OF USE *****

INTERFACE *****

POWER OF TOOLS *****

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