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Screenwriting software is a pretty mature product. The world of software is evolving at a breakneck pace except in this area, which seems to be frozen in 2002. WGA member Craig Mazin, scribe of The Hangover Part III and Identity Thief, wrote to us about the software: “In my experience, there’s a lot of fatigue among professionals toward Final Draft.
Over a year after its release, the program is finally garnering acclaim in Hollywood. STORY: Indie Gear: Could a New Canon 5D Mark III Hack Position It as a RED Rival? That’s when every decision becomes a cost-benefit analysis. Basically what I want is the best screenwriting software for people - including me - to use.” Startup founders are notorious for using this kind of user-centric rhetoric, usually abandoned if an increased user base and profits validate the business model. Whether or not to fix a bug or implement a new feature isn’t, to me, a cost-benefit analysis.
I’m not in the screenwriting software business. Tessman seems unwilling to pigeonhole himself as a software developer, “I’m a filmmaker, first and foremost. I couldn’t believe that there wasn’t something better out there, and I got to thinking that someone could write one, and hey, that someone might as well be me.”
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I was also very unhappy with FD Inc.’s business model, which involves selling software for a premium price - $250 a copy - and then fixing bugs only with another $80 upgrade to the next version. If you’ve ever been frustrated working with a piece of software and thought, “I could build a better one,” Fade In’s creator Kent Tessman would tell you “the most important thing at the start is to underestimate how much work it will be.” By his own account, Tessman was a screenwriter who was “sitting down to work on my next indie feature and was just disappointed with the latest Final Draft update. Then again, if you already have Final Draft, Fade In does allow import and export of FDX and FDR files, so jumping back and forth between the programs is relatively easy. Even though it’s in a cold, computerized tone, listening to dialogue spoken by different voices can be a godsend for writers who have spent months alone with a script.
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Of course, at $50 - one-fifth the price of Final Draft and equal to a five-month subscription to Story Plus - it doesn’t have all the whiz-bang tools of its bigger rivals. One would think that Adobe Story, coming from a maker who’s formatting modules are dynamic in nearly all of their editing suites, would have included a similar feature, but no such luck. If dragged to the edge of the screen, the modules snap into place. Like your smartphone’s apps, the formatting modules within Fade In (Navigator, Format/Roster, Toolbar) are completely dynamic, and can be dragged and dropped anywhere on the page. PHOTOS: Top Ten: Indies at the Box Officeįor consumers and content creators, a customizable interface has become the expected software experience. Which begs the question: How has this feature not been included in every other screenwriting program? Similarly, a “Focus Current Text” tool reduces the opacity of all text around the selected line, and though it may sound extraneous, it’s a nice touch for analyzing small bits of dialogue or action lines. Everything is gone, save the document and the scroll bar along the right rail.
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If you’re the nostalgic type who regularly holds forth on the benefits of using a typewriter - the lack of distracting images and icons, no toolbar, no navigation, just the author, the paper and his words - you may be a fan of Fade In’s Full Screen mode. First Reactions to Hayao Miyazaki's Final Film 'The Boy and the Heron' Begin to Emerge From Japan
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