Okay for screenplays - terrible for stage plays
Ive been using final draft since version 4.x on floppy disks, over 20 years ago. Final draft in someways gets better, and like Microsoft Word since version 5.x, just gets messier and bloated. Final draft for i-devices works reasonably well for screenplays, not perfectly. Lots of glitches, bugs, and club lines. ...But I also write stageplays, and all it does is copy the exact same functions from the screenplay file. Even uses the SAME TERMS AS A SCREENPLAY! Thats ridiculous. There are no "shots" in a stageplay. Or "scene headings" and so forth. Stageplays require different formatting and different elements, and its very disappointing that final draft for i-devices and desktop claims to be for stageplays, and then just uses the exact same screenplay functions and names. This makes writing a stageplay impossible without customizing, when final draft should have already customized it for you - like it claims it does - and even then you are still left with standard screenplay terms NOT USEABLE FOR STAGE. Its not very pretty to write on, very clunky at times; other software are prettier, but SADLY final draft does happen to be more functional than all the other software Ive tried. Including Celtx and Scripts Pro. Also when you sync, if you delete a file from the app, it still remains in your dropbox, so you can accidentally have multiple files when you thought you deleted it, and this can be confusing.
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