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The closer an application gets to the functionality of a program called Mindola SuperNotecard, the better. Final Draft's virtual index card feature is merely okay-but not nearly at the level I'd like to see. Most of the additional features of Final Draft aren't useful enough to be worth paying for. Yes, I'm not arguing that it doesn't have features beyond what Celtx offers, but I am arguing that the features it does have don't justify how unresponsive the company is to bugs and needed application improvements or the $200+ price difference. The application just doesn't seem like it offers much beyond what Celtx offers-and Celtx is FREE.
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Its look is simplistic, though that seems to be more than skin deep. Final Draft 7 was also notorious for its plethora of bugs and weird behaviors.
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A major windows release, and months later they still haven't done anything significant about making their application 100% compatible. I hate it when developers are so far behind the times. Instead, their solution is to put up a lengthy intimidating page of solutions to common Vista problems. They still haven't released a version of Final Draft which is fully compatible with Vista.
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They're leaving the innovations to other applications like Celtx, Sophocles, and Movie Magic. More than anything, what will bring Final Draft down is its growing reputation for horrible customer service horrible customer service that has the gall to charge for poor service-after users have already paid a hefty chunk of change or a glorified word processor. Could this have been an effort on their part to include a high-demand feature, while making it unattractive to use? Perhaps.
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Another key weakness of Final Draft is that their PDF file sizes are ridiculously huge. Regardless, PDF has weakened the reign of Final Draft and their file format: FDR. But the industry may be finding that it's cheaper and easier to just print out a PDF, make your notes in red on the margins of the script, and messenger it back to the writer (or whomever). PDF can be opened anywhere, whereas FDR requires Final Draft or, at bare minimum, the Final Draft Viewer application. Yet the inclusion of PDF export in Final Draft opened up the way for the industry to standardize on a different format other than FDR. PDF was a feature that Final Draft couldn't afford to not include. For years it's proprietary format helped it keep its stranglehold on Hollywood production houses but then along comes PDF.
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When a free application is available that works so well and looks so good (Celtx), and the competing pay applications are upping the ante by offering far better customer service and applications which offer more features in a better looking package, you know Final Draft is in trouble. It is, without a doubt, the industry standard. Final Draft has, for many years, been the mack daddy of screenwriting applications. But, like I said, it's hard to beat free, especially when free works so well in this case. It's basically just a barebones screenwriting program that formats things correctly, prints, outputs in PDF, and offers an online backup feature. It doesn't have any virtual index card functionality, and it doesn't include any sort of outliner. It doesn't have a page view For those of you like me who like to see what you're writing as it would look in the context of a page, it's a feature you'd miss. However, Celtx is missing some of the features of pay programs.
It's just so hard these days to beat free. It formats things correctly and is a great buy at $0.
It's not perfect (by any means), but it looks good, and is mostly intuitive to use for writing.
If you're looking for the best cheap/free screenwriting application, you can do no better than Celtx. Many of those OTHER programs are merely template programs-which means that they are addons to Microsoft Word, adding additional screenwriter-relevant functions. There are other alternatives whose niche is simply being less fully featured, harder to use, and cheaper. As far as I can surmise, there are roughly four worthy screenwriting applications out there: Sophocles 2007 (which is currently in beta, but works quite well), Final Draft 7, Celtx, and Movie Magic Screenwriter 6 (as yet unreleased).
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