MOVIE MAGIC SCREENWRITER SOFTWARE MOVIE
Movie Magic Screenwriter’s Notes panel is much less cumbersome than competitor Final Draft 7’s pop-up ScriptNotes. When writing and rewriting, I find the ability to tag my screenplay with quotes, jokes, and notes to myself invaluable. But the Notes and Outline panels are where NaviDoc really earns its keep. Use the Bookmarks panel to bounce to and from predefined points in your script. The Scenes panel allows you to navigate or sort by slug line. In the NaviDoc, you can select from four navigational panels. As its name implies, the panel lets you instantly navigate your document with a click of your mouse. It also exports to RTF, PDF, and the Screenplay Exchange (.sex) scheduling formats.Īmong Movie Magic Screenwriter 6.0’s most touted new features is the NaviDoc panel, a navigation interface that appears to the left of your script pages. Though Screenwriter 6.0 cannot import from or export to Final Draft format, import from Rich Text Format (RTF) is easy and requires little cleanup. Integrated outlining features are fully customizable, so you can work within whatever story structure paradigm your personal screenwriting guru preaches. Paranoid about inadvertently deleting the best line of dialogue you’ve ever written? Screenwriter’s new Retain Previous Versions feature protects you from yourself by letting you hang onto as many versions of your opus as you want. So now there’s no more wasting valuable display real estate on your screenplay’s empty right margin.
Version 6.0’s Zoom Screen Text option offers a new Fit Width option that grows and shrinks onscreen font size automatically, within user-defined thresholds, to fit your display window. Movie Magic Screenwriter’s abundant features includes such bells and whistles as dual dialogue support, the ability to “cheat” the length of your script by adjusting spacing, and online collaboration capabilities.
(OK, it can’t make your jokes funny, but it will take care of the formatting.) The New From Template command lets you select from dozens of pre-existing feature film, novel, or television script formats, ensuring that your sample Simpsons script would make even Matt Groening proud. Movie Magic Screenwriter’s use of the Tab and Enter keys, along with the mouse and pop-up menus, make it easy for a newbie to hit the ground typing. Within a few minutes of opening the box, I was well into page one of my epic. Updates and patches installed automatically. Rest assured, Movie Magic Screenwriter 6.0’s aesthetic additions all serve higher functional purposes. Version 6.0 finally gives the program the leading lady looks past users found lacking by adding a multipurpose navigational and outlining tool to the left of your written page, extensive color-coding outlining options, a custom-designed beefy Courier font perfect for screen and print, and easy-to-use slider controls to grow and shrink your outline views.
Though Movie Magic Screenwriter has long been respected as a capable industry performer, even winning its creators an Academy Technical Achievement Award, let’s just say it hasn’t won any beauty pageants.
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