- #FEATURES OF FINAL DRAFT SOFTWARE MANUAL#
- #FEATURES OF FINAL DRAFT SOFTWARE SOFTWARE#
- #FEATURES OF FINAL DRAFT SOFTWARE TV#
Marking too much text at once to change the font causes the program to crash. Cutting and pasting audio bumps character names out of the way or causes the pasted block to be underlined as if it were a character. Deleting large blocks of text leaves artifacts on the screen that only disappear after scrolling away from the affected area. For instance, colons pop up at the end of audio descriptions though I remove them, they return. The program has techno-gliteches as well.
#FEATURES OF FINAL DRAFT SOFTWARE SOFTWARE#
Here's a thought: People have been emailing design suggestions for this software for two years-why not start by implementing those, before calling for different or redundant suggestions?
#FEATURES OF FINAL DRAFT SOFTWARE MANUAL#
The manual urges users to email their suggestions to tech support, and promises to incorporate those suggestions into future versions. On virtually every page, the FD AV manual promises upgrades that will deliver the level of flexibility and features that, it seems to me, should have been standard equipment on this version. Generally, the manual has more promises of future improvements than information, more urges to register for the "good stuff" to be incorporated into upgrades than helpful explanations. The program has so few features and such limited flexibility, there isn't much to explain.Ĭonsequently, the FD AV manual feels skimpy, as if they had to stretch to fill it and make it look substantial. Is this Final Draft AV 2001, or WordStar 1981? Cripes, c'mon, guys! *If you put the character name in line with the dialogue, the entire text column must be centered. *No smart type feature for character names or anything else, as there is in FD. *No way to mark revised copy from one draft to the next. Perhaps "AV" stands for "Aggravating Version."
Header entries must be changed one item at a time. If you "select all" and change the font, that will help you with the text you've typed however, if you type anything additional, it is entered in Times New Roman. One would imagine that a preference change would rid one of that problem, but that's not an option in this version. Some of its ideas are just plain bad, such as supplying Times New Roman as the default font.
#FEATURES OF FINAL DRAFT SOFTWARE TV#
As you probably know, the two-column format is favored in the creation of TV and radio ads, corporate videos, documentaries, even short film scripts.įD AV feels simplistic and inflexible. If only the Final Draft folks had spent as much time designing this new software as they spent designing the handsome box around it, Final Draft AV might have been one of the great v1.0s of all time.Īfter more than two years of development, Final Draft has unveiled Final Draft AV, their software for writing in the two-column format on Mac or IBM.
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