Final Draft (software)

Final Draft (English about final version ) is a word processing program to write screenplays. It is for OS X and Windows available ( also special versions for iOS ). Final Draft represents the Anglo-American industry standard for screenwriters and production studios

Use

The program comes with a large number of templates (templates), which are based on well-known American television series. However, the differences between the originals are relatively low, since deviations are not welcomed by the industry standard.

Final Draft has several features to speed up the writing of screenplays and easier. Thus, the program places for scene headings, times of day and the names of the characters noted. Using tab you can quickly switch between different formats, such as for descriptions of actions, dialogue or camera instructions, change.

Likewise, the program provides some analysis tools that will help you about dialogue from different characters can create, among other things.

Alternatives

On the Internet you can find some templates for word processing programs from office packages. Many of them use macros to speed up the formatting. Free Alternatives are for example the programs Celtx or Trelby dar.