Final Draft is one of the most popular macOS utilities designed to allow professional writers to make sure that their movie script and stage plays are as correct as possible and respect all the industry standards before delivering them to the production team. Powerful script editor with advanced formatting. Whenever you save or the auto-save saves your script, Final Draft makes an additional date- and time-stamped copy (i.e. 30Scriptname) and places it in another folder for safe-keeping. In this example, the file named Scriptname was backed up in 2019, July 4, at 130 PM. All registered users of Final Draft 8 and older are eligible for the upgrade to Final Draft 12. The upgrade to FD12 can be installed on a computer that does not have a previous version of Final Draft installed, and Final Draft 12 will open scripts written in FD8 / 7 / 6 / 5. Click HERE for more information or call 818-995-8995 to speak with a. Final Draft is a serious writing app for professional writers. In short, that means it’s expensive. Like, really really really expensive software. The $249 price tag is nearly ten times the price of Write! Final Draft Pricing Plans. A new license of Final Draft 11 will set you back $249 for either a Mac or Windows version.
NOTE: Live technical support for Final Draft 9 will end on December 31st, 2021. The program will still run on computers with appropriate operating systems, but phone, email and chat support with Final Draft technicians will be unavailable after this date.
Thanks for choosing Final Draft 9! Please read and follow the instructions carefully. In just a few minutes, you’ll be starting your script. You will need your Customer Number handy. If you do not have it, you can retrieve it here.
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If you only see the .zip file, double-click it and the Final Draft 9 Installer.app file will be displayed. Double-click this icon to begin the installation.
2. Press the Install button.
If you copy and paste the number, be careful there are no additional or missing characters. If you receive an error message, re-enter the number from the email or carefully type in the Customer Number.