A great tool if you write in two or more languages.

This is a great one if you often come up with various lines of dialogue for the same speech. 'Store alternate lines of dialogue within the script for easy reference.' But if you live in Hollywood and your writing partner lives in Sidney, Collaboration is a very handy tool that allows for two or more writers to work on the script in real time. 'Work on your script remotely in real time with your writing partner(s).'Īlas, I am one of those lonely writers who never works with a partner, so I haven’t had the opportunity to use Collaboration. Story Mapping enhances the Beat Board by allowing you to link the Beat Board boxes to your script so you can easily go back and forth as you develop story and move into the script stage. 'High-level view of your story that allows you to easily preview and navigate to scenes.' You can create easily viewable, moveable and editable boxes with plot points, scenes and notes that really help give you the control that only a bird’s-eye-view can. I have always been a big fan of getting a bird’s-eye-view while developing my stories and the Beat Board makes this very easy.

The Beat Board adds a big missing step into the Final Draft screenplay development process. 'Total freedom to organize your ideas as they come to you completely within your. Listed in italics, below, are the main improvements as advertised: As a professional screenwriter I gave it a real-world test drive by writing a few TV scripts with it and I found it easier to use and time-saving. I am happy to say my doubts were unjustified.įD10 is a big improvement over FD9. I wasn’t that impressed with the Final Draft 9 upgrade, so I was a bit skeptical when Final Draft 10 was released.

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