Re OS X: FD has had years to go Cocoa, but refuses to invest the time and resources. I used Scrivener for my last three first drafts and it's so nice! And built with Cocoa. New Sreenwriters should check out 40$ Scrivener for a real writer's environment, and a company that makes fuller use of OS X.
Let's recreate the Golden Age of the Studios, with typewriters and index cards. Their interface seems like they tried to imagine how Pat Hobby would organize himself. FD8 is not reliable enough for me to use professionally anymore. They are lazy, unimaginative, bad programmers, or the execs are hamstringing them. Paradoxically it's because I have and still do that I say this. You're right that it's easy to spot when someone's used it, and it reeks of amateur-hour. It has a "look" to it that's ever so slightly.
But nobody knows anything, because they don't take ten minutes to fiddle with the options when they start. Did you know you can split the screen in half in Microsoft Word to work on two sections of a document at once? I don't know why people don't explore programs. It takes a second and a half, and you never have to do it again. It sucks that it's set to default when you first open up the program (who the hell thought that was a good idea?), but you only need to hit the checkbox once. Okay, so, when most people get a new program, they go through the options so they know what the program can do.
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Once I'm done, I just import it all as a text document to the PC program. It doesn't "group" character/dialogue so it'll often place a character's name at the bottom of one page and the dialogue at the top of the next page (which looks as shitty as it sounds). The mobile version does something like that, however. It goes "CHARACTER (cont'd)" like you said other programs do. Sorry, maybe they fixed everything in the paid version and now I'm wrong but the versions up to that were garbage. I get that you can cut that feature off but most people don't. Also, every page that is part of a scene started on the previous has CONTINUED: which is unnecessary and annoying. If a character is in the middle of dialogue that runs to the next page instead of adding a character line on the next page that has a (CONT'D) it simply continues the dialogue as if there is no page break. The coding for the formatting is all wrong and it's super easy to spot, and it all has to do with the way it handles moving text to the next page. MM has a slightly different font than Final Draft (it's called 'Courier MM Screenwriter' and the differences from regular Courier are as subtle as the b in the word subtle but they are there) and Celtx will look like ass. I hear that from a lot of people and it's very unfortunate.įun fact, if you're given the exact same screenplay that was formatted and exported from all three programs you can pick them out fairly easily. No Sale of Copyrighted Material or Sharing of Confidential Material Posts Made by ( u/deleted) Accounts are Subject to Removal Observe Dedicated Weekly Threads for Loglines, Memes, Etc Provide Descriptive/Informative Titles for Posts Screenplays MUST be properly formatted/Do not post your film without the screenplay. No Contest, Coverage or Service AdvertisingĬomplaints About Paid Feedback Must Include Script and Evaluations No Socks, Trolls or Shitposting, Spam or Off-Topic Postsĭon't post personal blogs, personal websites, or unapproved self-promotion. WIKI: FAQS & FORMATTING INFO AND RESOURCESĭo not personally attack fellow redditors respect privacy, be encouraging, use your manners.
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