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If you're writing feature films, if you're not writing in a writer's room, generally when you submit a script, you submit it in PDF, so nobody really knows what you wrote it on to begin with. And some of them are actually free or have a free platform and a paid platform. And some of them have been developed directly by professional script writers. I haven't used them, but the reports are a lot of them are very good. There are a whole lot of other script writing programs out there, which are. I'm not sure what the initial price is, but it's at least $165 or more, so you have to take that into consideration. If you're not a professional, Final Draft is expensive.

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And if you have run into problems, need to do something fancy, like a split dialogue, two characters speaking at the same time and that sort of thing, you'd have to go to the manual or maybe call support. But within a few hours you'll be working. If you don't know script writing and are a complete novice, give yourself a bit of time. So it's not difficult to get going on it if you know script writing. Screenwriter, no longer has phone support, which is a major hassle, too. And about 80, 90% of the time, their answer will be correct. And if you have a question, they will help you.

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What is a good plus to Final Draft is, they have phone support and it works and the people are there, and generally you can get someone within a minute. And then as problems come up or if you want to do something a little fancier, you'll have to start going into the manual or. Probably within a couple of hours, you'll be fine. If you're starting right from the beginning, there's a bit of a learning curve, but probably within a day, you'll be fine. Feature film scripts, television scripts, generally follow a very specific format and the programs are made to adapt themselves to those formats, so it's not that hard. If you've used Screenwriter, it's not that hard. That's why I basically use Final Draft now. It's a good program, but with terrible bugs, which were really a nuisance to have to deal with. And also Screenwriter just became obsolete in a way. One, it is the most common screenwriting program used by professionals, studios, networks, writers' rooms, so that's the program that people want you to be on if you're working in television, like I do. I chose Final Draft because, two main reasons. It has its own peculiarities, but it is the standard, so you pretty much have to use it and live with it and try to accommodate yourself to it as well as you can.

I was just, in a way, glad to move on to Final Draft. Also, Screenwriter had some major, major bugs in it, which drove me crazy.

So if you work for any studio, any network, if you're working on a TV series, they'll pretty much want you to be on Final Draft.

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It was also known as Movie Magic Screenwriter. I used a program called Scriptwriter or Screenwriter.