* Index Cards - Build your script with Index Cards. Easily store, access and color code scene summary, location, and other useful story data. * Navigator – View, sort and filter the important details of your Scenes, Scriptnotes and Characters.

* Scene View - Outline your script and reorder scenes using a simple drag-and-drop interface. Works seamlessly with the Final Draft Mobile app for iPhone and iPad (sold separately). Thanks to color coding in the Scene Navigator, a single glance helps you identify improperly interwoven stretches of story.Write movie and TV scripts, stage plays, and new media with Final Draft – the number-one selling entertainment industry-standard application that combines powerful word processing with professional script formatting.įinal Draft automatically formats your script to industry standards as you write so you can focus on what’s important – story and character. How is this useful? Well, one might color-code scenes according to whether they represent the adventure A-story, the romance B-story, or the humorous C-story. In addition, it now provides a variety of scene information in table format, including scene start pages, scene page count, and color coding. First off, it’s now a floating palette, so you can leave it open all the time when you’re writing and use it to quickly navigate to portions of your script in progress. Most importantly, it lets you add a title to each scene, like “Hero Finds Amulet.” The resulting view essentially becomes a high-level skeletal outline of your story–very handy.įinal Draft 8’s Scene Navigator is a big improvement over previous versions’ Navigator function. Though I really enjoyed the double-sided interface, I found myself wishing that I could just flip individual cards with a mouse click.Īlso useful for story planning and evaluation is the newly added Scene View feature, which strips your script to its bare bones, displaying only slug lines, a little description, and page numbers.

Unfortunately, flipping the cards is a little clunky, as you have to select the appropriate Index Cards state in the View menu, which then flips all cards simultaneously. The virtual index cards that are used for outlining and notes are now double-sided-one side displays scene notes and the other displays corresponding scene dialogue and description. Final Draft’s Index Card feature also gets a usability boost in version 8.

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