![]() The answer to my pondering was pretty clear and evident once I started using Final Draft. I had always wondered why Bob was fooling around trying to import the Celtx files into Final Draft. Then it came time to do the filmmaking budgets. I made Bob learn and write in Celtx because I had already started the screenplay in Celtx. I, on the other hand, was a Celtx fanboy. He was familiar with Final Draft and that’s all he used. I learned the hard way about a year ago that there’s no substitute for Final Draft if you want to make it and be taken seriously in this industry when I made my co-writer Bob Graziosi write our most recent screen play together, TAKE IT TO THE GRAVE, in Celtx. And even better…IT’S NOW AVAILABLE ON THE iPAD! OH YEAH! My frugal behind may not have been a believer back then, but read on and find out why Final Draft is not only the industry standard in the business, but in my opinion the EXTREME AUTHORITY. BUT…the bells and whistles of Final Draft are where it’s at. PDF file, it’s basically indistinguishable from Final Draft. I say that because when you export your script to a. ![]() It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles, but it does the job…if all your interested in is writing a screenplay. And for anyone that doesn’t know, Celtx is a screenwriting utility that’s available via freeware on their Internet website. It’s great having the software accessible on the lab PCs at school, but what about at home? Don’t worry my professor had an answer for that. The latest and greatest version of Final Draft was properly licensed and loaded on all the laboratory classroom PCs. Outside of that, all I knew about the product was that for many years now, more than I wish to count now, it has been known as the “industry standard” in the business and other than seeing screenshots on the back of the retail boxes in the Apple store, I hadn’t yet touched it. ![]() Several years ago, while formally studying the fine art of screenwriting at my local university, I was introduced to Final Draft for the very first time. ![]()
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