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Movie Draft SE is new and unique to the Mac App Store. Probably the biggest advance in screenplay writing since the advent of the typewriter. Its streamlined, clean and uncluttered interface gives you everything you need to write that next blockbuster. Without doubt it is the best tool available for writing screenplays. From concept, outline and finished draft.
Why is Movie Draft SE different?
Unlike other screenplay software, Movie Draft SE is not a word processor with added bells and whistles that requires you to write your screenplay from the top down. It's unique
Why is Movie Draft SE different?
Unlike other screenplay software, Movie Draft SE is not a word processor with added bells and whistles that requires you to write your screenplay from the top down. It's unique
What's New
Version 1.0.3:
- Pasting weird characters bug
- Character window crash bug
- Overlapping when printing bug
- Clear Characters and Locations window bug
- Window goes beyond top of the screen bug
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
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| Downloads:1,493 |
| Version Downloads:255 |
| Type:Business : Word Processing |
| License:Demo |
| Date:07 Feb 2012 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $29.99 |
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Movie Draft SE is new and unique to the Mac App Store. Probably the biggest advance in screenplay writing since the advent of the typewriter. Its streamlined, clean and uncluttered interface gives you everything you need to write that next blockbuster. Without doubt it is the best tool available for writing screenplays. From concept, outline and finished draft.
Why is Movie Draft SE different?
Unlike other screenplay software, Movie Draft SE is not a word processor with added bells and whistles that requires you to write your screenplay from the top down. It's unique Single Scene mode allows you to write non-linearly, that is, in any order you like! Want to write the ending first? No problem. How about the middle? Again, with Movie Draft SE it's a piece of cake. The built-in Scene List acts like an outliner and you can even view your scenes as index cards that you can rearrange to your heart's desire.
Started writing your screenplay in another program? No problem. Movie Draft SE supports the following formats for importing your existing work:
Why is Movie Draft SE different?
Unlike other screenplay software, Movie Draft SE is not a word processor with added bells and whistles that requires you to write your screenplay from the top down. It's unique Single Scene mode allows you to write non-linearly, that is, in any order you like! Want to write the ending first? No problem. How about the middle? Again, with Movie Draft SE it's a piece of cake. The built-in Scene List acts like an outliner and you can even view your scenes as index cards that you can rearrange to your heart's desire.
Started writing your screenplay in another program? No problem. Movie Draft SE supports the following formats for importing your existing work:
- Movie Draft Format (default)
- Final Draft v8 (.fdx)
- Final Draft v5 - v7 (.fdr)
- Microsoft Word (.docx)
- Microsoft Word (.doc)
- SceneWriter Pro (.swp)
- SceneWriter Pro (.osfx)
- Rich Text (.rtf)
- Plain Text (.txt)
- Movie Draft Format (default)
- Final Draft v8 (.fdx)
- Plain Text (.txt)
- Clean, uncluttered design.
- Industry standard formatting.
- Non-linear writing of your scenes.
- Index Card view.
- Know exactly how long your scenes and acts are with SceneTime™
- Different page themes to fit with the way you work.
- Print out Character and Location profiles, including photos.
- Create as many scenes as you like and hide the ones you're not sure of.
- Add Icons and Notes to your scenes.
- Color-code your script when typing for ease of reading.
- Full-screen mode for an uncluttered writing experience.
- Group your scenes into acts. Collapsed acts appear greyed-out.
- American and British spell check.
- Template-based. Includes screenplay and stage play templates.
- Automatic (MORE) and (CONT'D).
- Easily caters for US Letter and European A4 paper.
- Add notes to any paragraph you like.
- Supports Final Draft and Movie Magic Screenwriter TAB and ENTER key strokes.
- Friendly "Getting Started" guide with an example project.
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Carlos85 reviewed on 18 Mar 2011
Please feel free to contact me at the email address on our website should you require any assistance.
All the best,
Mark.
http://www.moviedraft.com/se/
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I downloaded and tried it again and this time took a screen recording to demonstrate what I'm talking about: http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/6308/ws1.mp4
This is on a 2.26 GHz MacBook with 2 GB of RAM. The only other program running was my web browser.
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I'm sorry for the delay. For some reason I'm not getting emails sent to me when you reply. I'll check out my preferences.
Anyway...
Thank you for taking the time to do that screencast. Whoa, that is CRAZY slow. I've never seen anything like that before in my entire life of developing Movie Draft SE - and it's been on many, many machines with various configurations - from an iBook (yes, you read right) running 10.4 all the way to a high-end i7 MacBook Pro with the latest Snow Leopard release.
Would you mind answering the following so we can track this down?:
1. Are you running in a Virtual Machine?
2. If you're not running in a VM, what's your Mac model and how much free RAM does it have when you run Movie Draft SE?
3. I'm wondering if you have some sort of Anti Virus program running which could be interfering with its execution...?
On first launch it will take some time to launch as it copies all its assets to the application folder (this is how it has to happen on the Mac App Store), but after that it should launch right away.
But that doesn't explain why you're seeing the "walking through treacle" speed when typing.
We've had no other reports of this so I'm keen to sort this out, both for yourself and for us.
Feel free to email me off list if you need to.
Again, thank you for taking the time to respond, Carlos.
All the best,
Mark.
http://www.moviedraft.com/se/
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2. Using a late 2009 MacBook6,1. RAM before launching: http://img34.imageshack.us/i/beforej.png/ RAM while running: http://img12.imageshack.us/i/during.png/
3. No anti-virus running.
First launch and subsequent launches are all very slow. I downloaded the Demo from your website, I haven't yet purchased the App Store version because of my experience with the Demo. Perhaps there's an issue with the Demo?
I have a MacBook1,1 here so I'll just see what the score is with that one, although that has 10.4.11 on it which would make a difference (i.e., it should be quicker than 10.6.6 because of Snow Leopard's hungrier RAM requirements).
I'll get back to you about that.
I'm still not receiving notifications from here btw, so I'll keep checking back now and again.
Can you think of anything that could be running on your Mac that could be interfering with Movie Draft SE's execution?
Thanks again for taking the time to respond. I appreciate it.
All the best,
Mark.
http://www.moviedraft.com/se/
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OK, here are my findings (dons Sherlock Holmes hat):
http://www.moviedraft.com/video/md_640.mov
It's a very old MacBook1,1 as I mentioned. 2Gb or RAM and 1.86GHz processor. It's running 10.4.11 (even though the demo can't actually run on anything less than 10.6.6 due to the Mac Store's guidelines so I had to compile one that could).
On that MB1,1 MS Word takes approximately 3 times longer to load (at best) than Movie Draft SE (that's how old this machine is).
As you can see from the video, I'm stumped as to why you'd be having these problems with speed. On a new i7 Mac Book Pro it's even quicker, as I'm sure you can imagine.
Hmm. Most strange indeed.
Just out of interest - when did you last restart your system? (Can you hear the sound of straws being cluched?)
All the best,
Mark.
http://www.moviedraft.com/se/
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henryfrr rated on 11 Mar 2012