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user-inactivated  ·  3714 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 1, 2014

You could go with Final Draft, Complexity, but the entirety of Hubskina was written in Scrivener so I think we have a clear winner here.

If you're looking for free, Adobe Story and Celtx both are.

I wanted to try Final Draft but the price tag made my wallet cry in pain and hide behind my computer monitor in fear of use.





kleinbl00  ·  3714 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Also did some focus group shit for Adobe Story, and was one of the first people to mess about with Celtx. Not a fan.

Final Draft is ridiculously overpriced for what it does.

Complexity  ·  3713 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, for screenwriting FD is my last resort for back and forth between me those who demand it; and after the feature free 'upgrade' pricing debacle and the hilariously awkward Scriptnotes episode with the FD guys who have now become a running gag between Craig and John, I'm pretty much done with it.

Actually, since I found Fade In Pro I haven't looked back. Light, agile, modern and just gets out of the way for a draft. I think it lacks the annotated versioning/change tracking of FD but that's so much later in the development process (and such a specific type of studio writing) it doesn't really affect me at the moment.

Celtx was always a nice idea but slow and unwieldy (cutting and pasting multi-page sequences into a 110 page doc was like waiting for the pitch drop experiment to happen). I didn't like having to be online to generate a paginated preview on their servers and the increasing move to cloud shenanigans was not for me.

Never really played around with Story.

I'm doing a lot of scratch drafts in Fountain, anyway, so I can use anything.

kleinbl00  ·  3713 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fuck, dude, if I weren't under NDA I could tell you so many things about the features you were almost cursed with...

Complexity  ·  3713 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Beautiful. It's like like they misread a Philip K Dick nightmare as a utopian dream and ran with it.

kleinbl00  ·  3713 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The stories I could tell, dude.