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 - It formats everything to industry standard.If you want your screenplay to look like an industry standard screenplay then FD6 will do exactly just that. It is also simple to use and the learning curve is like 10 minutes. It is so easy to format a screenplay that you will no longer need to pay attention to the format. Once you understand how it works your ideas will flow from you brain and will almost automatically format themselves correctly on the page. This is a must for any screenplay writer. However this package is a waaaaaay toooooo expensive!!! Please lower the cost of this thing by a $100. People need software like this for school theatre work and other community scribes. Rating:  - Instruction book is worthless and phone support is $$$$$As a writer of Novels and Short Stories, I decided to try my hand at a screenplay, using Final Draft 6. BIG MISTAKE! The instruction book assumes you already know how to write a screenplay and never explains the basics. Tech support is very expensive and will cost you more than the price of the software by the time they explain how it works. An instructional video would be helpful, but is not available. My advice would be to not purchase this software unless you know someone who is willing to teach you how to use it. I'm sure it's great for those that already know how to write a screenplay, making it much faster. But for a novice to the trade, it is worthless. Rating: - Better than Movie Magic 2000 - Not BuggyI test drove this and Movie Magic 2000 before making my purchase. Movie Magic is just NOT ready for prime time. It is BUGGY. The cursor will pop into different places on the screen after operations. The voice read uses windows system and is MUCH harder to control than Final Draft. Also, some of Move Magic's default formatting is outdated (like CONT after action between the same character which is no longer used). This is clearly better and more professional. Movie Magic may have more "options" but when you want a correctly formatted screenplay, what kind of options do your really need anyway? If you want to save the test drive time which I did for several days, go ahead and just get Final Draft. If you run the two side by side, you will see what I mean... Movie Magic is so unprfessional looking and feeling. I do hope they put an index and a way to edit in index mode in future versions however. Mike Rating: - Final Draft 6 Far Exceeds ExpectationsI am a screenwriter who is proficient with Microsoft Word. I put off buying Final Draft because I thought with the macros I'd created in Word, this product could not be much better than what I was already using. I WAS WRONG!! This program GREATLY simplifies screenwriting and is INCREDIBLY easy to use. The program is also able to convert screenplays written in Microsoft Word into Final Draft documents, and does so with a minimum of errors. My hard spaces in Word were inconsistently converted to question marks; some of the scene headings in the Word document were mistaken for character headings in Final Draft - both easily fixed. (However, Final Draft documents are not easily converted back to Word, as the formatting is lost.) Final Draft is also able to save documents in pdf format. However, one cannot simply click on the document and have Adobe Reader open it. Instead, one must open Adobe Reader, and then open the document through that. In spite of its minor faults, this is a TERRIFIC, easy to learn and operate program! Rating: - EZ to use, even 4 this computer goober & quick delivery, tooA writer wants to write not get bogged down with hard to decipher manuals, and difficult setup instruction sheets. Not to worry with Final Draft! In no time I was doing what I love to do: creating & writing! Excellent program. Should have made the investment long ago! Hope to see you at the movies enjoying, "Country Inn, Dead & Breakfast."
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