Final Draft or Movie Magic Screenwriter

Craig Mazin, over at the The Artful Writer says "Adios" to Final Draft as he has just switched to using Movie Magic Screenwriter, and he sums up his reasons why. I've never used Movie Magic and I'm still using Final Draft 6, but I can definitely relate to his sentiments regarding FD's customer/tech support -- pretty dismal.

More importantly, he offers some insight into FD's latest releast, which is what I was really curious about, wondering if it was worth it to upgrade.

When Final Draft 7 came out, I was disgusted with the half-baked nature of the release. Releasing bugware and then finishing the program by studying crashing early-adopters in the field is a time-honored software industry tradition, but 7.0 was a joke.

Still, I stuck with it. You must understand, it’s been twelve years of pressing “option-1” to get an automatic slugline that begins with “INT. -“. Old habits.

Now, as I posted recently, I’ve had a weird issue with Tiger and Final Draft 7.1. By “weird”, I mean to say not-solvable by me, and I’m an extremely proficient trouble-shooter in OS X. By “issue”, I mean to say crippling bug.

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