Better togetherįinal Draft 10 introduces an improved way for two or more writing partners across town or halfway around the globe to collaborate on a script in real time. Collectively, it’s a powerful trio of features designed to help writers keep their story moving in the right direction.īeat Board provides a visual way to lay out key plot points, which can then be used to keep your screenwriting on track. Those are virtual thumbtacks to help chart a character’s emotions or keep track of where the overall narrative is heading. You can also plan backwards by setting the target length for a script, which helps establish where acts and key plot points should take place.īeat Board entries appear as diamond-shaped markers on Story Map, alongside another new feature called Structure Points. Hovering the mouse over a marker displays a small pop-up preview double-clicking jumps directly to that scene. Enabling this feature adds a horizontal grid sandwiched between the toolbar and page ruler, with grey markers denoting where scenes are located across the entire page count. Story Map provides a high-level view of scenes as they’re being written. Beat Board is designed to help brainstorm ideas prior to committing them to virtual paper, allowing writers to rearrange the progression of beats in a story without a lot of old-school cut and paste. Final Draft 10’s Story Map adds a visual representation of where scenes fall across the entire page count for quickly navigating a script.īy comparison, Final Draft 10 offers six marquee features, most of which make it easier to keep tabs on the direction your story is heading.

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