The text-to-voice reading function is pretty cool and a godsend for catching typos. This makes translation work almost impossible, as one document that is in the “wrong” language will be all highlighted in red. And you can’t localize language selection to each document. You still can’t insert links into the body of the document. It’s just not as fine-tuned for power users like Final Draft is.īut it’s also still missing several basic things, which I hope they implement soon. Also, you really can’t have tons of documents open at the same time, like with Final Draft. But it’s tracking / versioning function pales in comparison to Final Draft. I may have the world’s messiest RAM cache. But I tend to leave my computer on for month at a time without rebooting, with tons of applications open and endless tabs open simultaneously on Safari, Firefox, Chrome and Tor. It might have crashed maybe twice in the last three years. I’ve used Final Draft for years on a Mac. If "Yes," then I've got a way forward without having to spend more money on yet-another piece of software. And unless that's nothing short of the most effective ruse ever perpetrated, then either most of the writers out there have far more patience and tolerance than I do, or they're running Final Draft on a Mac. It's what most of the writers out there use. I don't trust it, at all.ĭoes the MacOS version work better than the Windows version? I mean, Final Draft is the Hollywood Industry Standard, from all accounts. Now, I've got exactly Zero Faith in Final Draft 12. But for the ten minutes or so where I thought I'd lost three days of quality effort, I was near tears. In the long run, I only lost a few sentences. Then I discovered that Final Draft 12 has an alternate Save mechanism, whereby every time you hit Save, Final Draft saves an alternate version of the file to a new filename in a recovery folder. I was looking at three days of effort lost to obscenely bad coding. But it was three days or so since the last time I had saved the file to a new filename. This was after a major revision that was going very well. And when I checked the file size of the screenplay file, it was Zero Bytes. And after researching the issue, I learned that Final Draft 12 can actually corrupt the file, making it unrecoverable. The feedback was "This file is not the right version for Final Draft 12," or words to that effect. To add to that, I'd actually save the file to a new filename every so often. I'd hit Save more often than I'd hit the Space Bar. It got to the point where I'd hit save after I'd typed a line or two. And I'd lose everything I'd written since the last save. And eventually, it would just happen while I wasn't typing anything. Then, over time, it started happening more and more. At first, I thought it was an inadvertent but disruptive series of keystrokes that caused it. While using Final Draft 12 on a Windows 10 PC, it started crashing. No Sale of Copyrighted Material or Sharing of Confidential Material Posts Made by ( u/deleted) Accounts are Subject to Removal Observe Dedicated Weekly Threads for Loglines, Memes, Etc Provide Descriptive/Informative Titles for Posts Screenplays MUST be properly formatted/Do not post your film without the screenplay. No Contest, Coverage or Service AdvertisingĬomplaints About Paid Feedback Must Include Script and Evaluations No Socks, Trolls or Shitposting, Spam or Off-Topic Postsĭon't post personal blogs, personal websites, or unapproved self-promotion. WIKI: FAQS & FORMATTING INFO AND RESOURCESĭo not personally attack fellow redditors respect privacy, be encouraging, use your manners.
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