Final Draft-Ping Chris-MacDV Digest #2182

[Ted Langdell]

> From: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 22:43:36 -0700
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> Subject: MacDV Digest #2182
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> From: czayachkowski at shaw.ca
> Subject: [MacDV] Final Draft - gonna make you laugh
> Message-id: <1EE1F17F-8A6C-11D7-8A49-0050E42E2E4E at shaw.ca>
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> Hey,
> 
> This is going to make you guys like laugh but I downloaded Final Draft 6
> for Mac OS X demo and it was so insanely easy! All formatting done for
> you it is sort of the screenplay version of GoLive I guess...
> 
> Boy, sure allows you to get a lot fo work done though I would say it
> still is good to have basic screenplay format knowledge in mind. Where
> does it insert scene numbers and page numbers? I think it is worth the
> $300.00 it is asking. I can get it for like $309.00 at DV Shop. Is that
> a good price? Anyone use this on Mac OS X care to tell me their
> experience using it?
> 
> Chris

Happy to hear you had a good time!

 I don't know about Final Draft, but Screenwriter adds the scene numbers and
page numbers when you ""lock" the script as you go into production. Any
further changes generate new pages new scene numbers (if needed) and pages
with numbers like 27A, etc., to account for the fact that the script may be
longer. 

The software automatically gives you a new "color" of the script.

The "A" pages and colors are from the "old days," when typewriters and
mimeographs were the tools of the day.  The color of the pages was/is the
clue to which revision of the script you were dealing with.  That's
important as you make dialogue and other changes once you're in production.

I believe There's a generally accepted order to the colors, but I'd defer to
others for details.

Ted.