Final Draft
Final Draft, Inc. was founded in 1991 to
develop a scriptwriting program that allows the writer to concentrate
on the creative process and not on Hollywood's stringent formatting
rules. Final Draft
is a screenwriting software program designed for writing screenplays,
teleplays and Stageplays. It supports both Mac OS X and Windows, and is
considered one of two industry standards for screenwriting, the other
being Movie Magic Screenwriter. Final Draft has templates for standard
film and television script formats, and provides shortcuts for writing
slug lines, transitions, dialog, and action. It also keeps an in-memory
list of characters and locations, allowing writers to use
tab-completion to speed up their writing. Final Draft, Inc. also
publishes Final
Draft AV, the only dedicated multi-column script processor specifically
designed for writing commercials, corporate videos, documentaries,
presentations and DV shorts, to name a few.
Due
to its popularity, the program's file format has been accepted by the
Writers Guild of America West (WGAw) as a preferred format for their
registry.
We
only have available the Academic Versions listed below. You are eligible for Academic Version and the associated discounted pricing if:
- You are a student or a teacher.
- You are a school administrator or faculty or staff member.
- You are purchasing for a school, college, university, nonprofit or church.
- Please refer to our Academic Eligibility Section in the left column for additional details.
