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Movie Magic Screenwriter 6 is the best selling screenplay formatting software and the choice of Hollywood professionals. lt automatically formats while you write so you can focus on what you're writing, not where it goes on the page. ln addition to movies, it also formats for television, stage, novels and comic book scripts so you've got an all in one package for any story you want to write. With a massive set of features designed to make the rewriting process fast and simple, such as integrated outlining, online collaboration, the ability to compare drafts of screenplays and the most comprehensive production features of any screenwriting software, you can get from FADE lN: to FADE 0UT effortlessly. 25 new TV show templates for a total of 8

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Award-winning Movie Magic Screenwriter is unsurpassed in features and flexibility. Whether you write novels, plays or movies this will format for you, leaving you to think about only the story. The power feature, SmartCheck, even finds and corrects common formatting errors before you print or send your story.



Movie Magic Screenwriter 6
Movie Magic Screenwriter is the best selling screenplay formatting software and the choice of Hollywood professionals. Screenwriter automatically formats while you write so you can focus on what you're writing, not where it goes on the page. lt also formats for television, stage, novels and comic book scripts so you've got an all in one package for any story you want to write. With a massive set of features designed to make the rewriting process fast and simple you can get from FADE lN: to FADE 0UT effortlessly. lntegrated outlining, online collaboration, the ability to compare drafts of screenplays and the most comprehensive production features of any screenwriting software all make Movie Magic Screenwriter the clear choice for getting your stories from concept to screen.

The 0fficial Screenwriting Software of the Writers Guild of America, East

New in Version 6:

• lntegrated outlining lets you create and manipulate outlines up to thirty levels deep.
• The NaviDoc technology lets you navigate through your document effortlessly and has four panels:
  • The 0utline panel lets you add, remove, and rearrange outline elements
  • The Scenes panel lets you navigate and sort your scenes at the click of a button
  • The Bookmarks panel lets you set bookmarks to jump to any place in your document
  • The Notes panel lets you create and sort color-coded notes & note categories
• 0ver 30 new templates for a total 104 templates and 12 sample files
  • 25 new TV show templates for a total of 86 TV templates
  • 2 new sample files (comic story arc & radio play) and 2 updated sample files (screenplay and stage play) for a total of 12 sample files
  • 3 new lnstructional templates (classic film structure outline , screenplay, & sitcom structure) for a total of 8 instructional templates.
  • 4 new blank templates (generic comic, Gossett-Kayle comic, radio play, & radio show) and 1 modified template (stage play) for a total of 10 blank templates
• Courier MM Screenwriter custom-made font for superior onscreen display and printing--not available anywhere else on the market
• lmproved tool bars & context menus
• Fit width zoom automatically adjusts the text size of your script as you resize the window
• Redesigned look and feel to accommodate the latest versions of Windows and Mac.
• Menus reorganized for easier use
• Send documents as email attachments in RTF or Adobe Acrobat PDF formats
• Retain previous versions of documents
• Makes back up copies of documents
• Automatically checks for Updates

What Does a Script Formatter Do?
Writing scripts for film, television, and theater has traditionally been a time-consuming task. There are many elements in a script that must be correctly placed in your script. Following these conventions is essential in making sure your script is receiving proper attention from agents, producers and contests.

Screenwriter 6 works by your side, automatically formatting action, character name, dialog and other elements as you write your script. Even better, there are no function keys or special command keys to memorize-your fingers stay on the keyboard, always ready for creative thoughts to flow onto the page!

FREE Technical Support!
Unlike Final Draft, technical support for Movie Magic Screenwriter is provided at no additional charge. Whether you call by phone, fax or email your questions, or visit our first rate support web site, you are not charged by the minute (or at all) for technical support.

Why Movie Magic Screenwriter?
All writing tools are not created equal. Naturally, Screenwriter uses a simple TAB-ENTER system to quickly get your creative thoughts flowing into the computer. Screenwriter has index cards, script notes, simple entry of character names, spell-checking, and of course, smart margin changing. The comparison ends here.

Screenwriter alone has a full suite of internet features, such as real-time internet collaboration, online script registration, and export to Adobe Acrobat PDF format; superior production features, such as built-in script breakdown and detailed export to Movie Magic Scheduling; Script Analysis features; and the finest import and export facilities in the world of screenwriting.

	Nothing Could Be Easier Just hit the 'Tab' and 'Enter' keys to move between different script elements such as Character, Dialogue, Action, etc. That's all you need to know! Since Screenwriter is instantly and automatically handling all the hassles of lndustry Standard Formatting, you can focus on writing your story as fast as you can get your thoughts onto the screen!.		lntegrated 0utlining Just Screenwriter 6's new outline feature lets you outline levels up to thirty levels deep. Now it's easier than ever to block in your ideas wherever you want in the document. Take advantage of Screenwriters instructional templates, such as the one for classic film structure, and see for yourself how useful this feature can be for your writing.
	Move Through Your Script with the Click of a Button lnstantly find and jump to any scene in your script with NaviDoc Scenes panel. The Scenes panel lets you sort the scenes by different criteria without affecting the document. lt also can show you as many lines of a scene as you want: from one to everything! This helps to quickly identify the scene you are searching for.		Better Than Post-its Jot down revision notes, casting suggestions, and research questions quicker than you can slap on a Post-it. The new NaviDoc Note panel feature allows you to quickly organize, access, view and print your script notes. You can hide or show your notes, and print them separately in a report with page-number references. You may even create dozens of different, color-coded note categories.
	Brainstorm and 0rganize Your ldeas Do you prefer to work with index cards? Screenwriter's built-in index card system lets you edit your screenplay and rearrange scenes on fully editable index cards-on-screen! As you develop a new story, you'll be able to quickly write desired scenes, sequences, and plot points on blank index cards and easily shuffle the scenes as the plot and story are fleshed out. Screenwriter even reformats and re-numbers your scenes for you!	caption	A Cast of Performers at Your Side Have a live script reading performed right on your computer with Screenwriter's Text to Speech! Assign different male and female voices to your different characters to hear a whole new perspective on your script. Are you an actor who wants to practice your lines? Simply turn off the voice for your character and the program will automatically pause for your dialogue, letting you play along with the program, practicing with cues and all!

Your Personal Typing Assistant
Type just a few letters of the desired character name, set, scene, etc., and Screenwriter will enter it instantly. Screenwriter's intelligent interface that can virtually read your mind, and pop up menus with the text items you want, without your even needing to tell it you want them.

A Full-Featured Word Processor
Screenwriter is a full-featured word processor which includes dictionary (110,000+ words), thesaurus (80,000 word links), Real-Time Spell Checking with Auto-Typo Correction for basic letter inversion corrections, and full support of foreign characters. 10 levels of Undo/ Redo assures that none of your changes are ever final!

A Virtual Proofreader Screenwriter's SmartCheck scans your entire script looking for and correcting common formatting errors. You'll never again have to reprint your script to fix errors like extra blank lines or characters who you inadvertently left speaking twice in a row. Go to print and it scans the script, instantly zeroing in on the most common typing & editing errors. lt points them out to you (optionally even automatically fixing them!) saving you from wasting paper and hours of your time reprinting pages.

No Writer is an lsland With iPartner lnternet Collaboration, Screenwriter allows you and a partner to collaborate on a script live over the lnternet. iPartner lets either one of you watch over your partner's shoulder as they compose and edit, allowing the viewing partner to see all the edits and additions as they are made just as if you were in the same room.

Don't Let Your 0ld Work Go To Waste
Screenwriter can import and export almost any text document (e.g. RTF, MS Word, Word Perfect, ASCll), as well as scripts written with most other screenwriting programs. And since Screenwriter imports using context recognition, imported scripts are much more accurate than with other script writing software programs

Real-time text and voice chat lets you break the distance barrier, without the long distance phone changes! (Click here to listen to ZDNet Radio's story on Screenwriter's iPartner feature.)

What's in a Name?
Your characters are unique, and their names should be too. Create countless unique character names from NameBank's huge database of male, female, and last names.

No Clutter
Do you like a typing environment clear of clutter and distractions? Screenwriter 6 lets you customize the look and feel to fit your desires. You can even turn off all Screenwriter's buttons and toolbars to give you a beautiful blank page.

0ver 85 Free TV Templates
Movie Magic's new and improved Television Templates are formatted with the correct margins, script styles, act breaks, set lists and character lists for easy 1-key entry, and even include sample text. Get over 85 of the most popular sitcoms, soaps, and episodic dramas, including: Alias; All of Us; Battle Star Galactica; The Bernie Mac Show; Boston Legal; Cold Case; Crossing Jordan; Days of 0ur Lives; Desperate Housewives; Drawn Together; Entourage; Ghost Whisperer; Heroes; House; How l Met Your Mother; Joan of Arcadia; King of the Hill; Malcolm in the Middle; Monk; The 0C; The 0ffice; The Unit; Without a Trace, and many, many more!

Protect Your Work
After your script is finished, protect your work quickly and easily by registering it with Screenwriter's online registration feature. (Windows only)

Ready for the World
Ready to show your script to the world? Screenwriter allows you to save your script in web browser (HTML) and Adobe Acrobat (PDF) formats so anyone with a computer can read your script. You can even publish your script directly to your web site, or to any site on the Web!

0ptional Foreign Spellcheck Dictionaries
Danish · Dutch · French · German · ltalian · Norwegian · Spanish · Swedish · UK English

Calling All Assistant Directors and Script Supervisors
Movie Magic Screenwriter's Production Menu contains an entire suite of production features, allowing you to do everything from locking the script, to inserting or removing revision marks, to production breakdown sheets of your script, to preparing production information for export to Movie Magic Scheduling.

Full Production Revision
Screenwriter features A and B Pages and Scenes, locked Pages and Scenes with multi-locking, an Automated Revision Draft process, onscreen Revision Draft colors, and AutoRevision Marks which automatically mark all editing changes made after the script has been locked.

Complete Production Breakdown Report and Export to Movie Magic Scheduling
Screenwriter's Tagging Mode allows you to go through your script and literally TAG anything in the script as one of over 20 categories ranging from Props to Sound Effects to Stunts to anything else you need. 0nce anything is tagged, Screenwriter will include it in one of its many breakdowns in addition to exporting that information directly to Movie Magic Scheduling.

Screenwriter generates internal breakdown sheets, and allows you to sort breakdowns by script order, lNTERl0R vs. EXTERl0R, Location, Time of Day, and Characters. Production Breakdown Graphs allow easy visualization of character use throughout a script. Screenwriter can even generate Scene Character Lists and Set Lists for TV production!

So why is Movie Magic Screenwriter the choice of Hollywood professionals? Because Screenwriter doesn't just Do lt All--Screenwriter Does lt Better. Way Better. Faster, More Reliable, and Easier to use than all the rest. Period. End of Story. Fade 0ut.








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Buyer's feedback: - * Works for me. ...
I've written screen plays many years ago, but this is the first time I've used a software package to write this type of format. I am used to using different software packages, and using Screenwriter was an easy transition.
The manual that comes with it was very useful, but I was able to start writing my movie script almost immediately, which means that the user interface for Screenwriter was user friendly.
I haven't had to use all of its features, but writing and formatting is very easy and its exporting to PDF worked flawlessly.

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Buyer's feedback: - BUGS!!!!!
I've been using Movie Magic for over 15 years and lemme tell you this is the worst version ever! It's amazing, but they've screwed up so much in this "new & improved" version that it's almost not worth reviewing (let alone buying). Large chunks of what you're writing will suddenly vanish from the screen because of a margin wraparound bug; call tech support and they'll tell you not to worry because it's not really gone - it's just not there on the screen. What? Huh? You also get error messages for no apparent reason that will send you in endless loops of frustration that would make Kafka proud. In short, do yourself a favor: BUY FINAL DRAFT. Loyalty schmoyalty, that's what I'm going to do!

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Buyer's feedback: - * This is the true Industry Standard ...
I've worked in and around the entertainment industry for almost 15 years now and though there was a time when Final Draft could be considered the industry standard those days are long gone. No matter what you hear I am here to tell you that in my experience, literally, most people actually working in this town use Movie Magic Screenwriter. Not just the writers and directors but the producers and nearly everybody who has to do something with the script during production. The simple reason is: it is more powerful and easier to use.

For that matter I've seen far too many people finally decide to throw Final Draft away (after I had been telling them to do so for years) when in the middle of shooting and trying to rush to get something ready for the next day Final Draft either crashed or had some funkiness that completely gummed up their files. I've never had anybody tell me they've experienced that with Screenwriter.

The new outlining feature is great if still not fully realized. Ultimately the company should have found a way to just integrate StoryView into the program, especially considering it seems this outline feature is the primary reason it took them about 7 or 8 years to come out with a new version and it isn't anywhere near as powerful as StoryView. Having said that the whole Navidoc is excellent. The notes feature is enhanced to make creating different kinds of notes super easy and much more functional than it was before (and light years ahead of anything Final Draft offers). I don't really use the book marks feature all that much but I've spoken to a lot of my co-workers and friends who use bookmarks frequently so you may find it a useful feature.

I can also tell you this: if you truly have plans to actually see your screenplay go into production anybody who will be working with you and the file will greatly appreciate you using Screenwriter. Everybody is still using Scheduling and nothing, NOTHING, works as seemlessly with Scheduling as Screenwriter. Sorry Final Draft. Nobody wants to open another program to do their tagging and production work and go back and forth between that and the main program while doing rewrites and going through the production cycle. Not to mention having all that work go to waste when bugs wipe stuff out.

Beyond the basic funtionality there are so many advanced features in Screenwriter that it would take an expert manual to cover everything. In my experience any time I've thought "hey, it would be nice if I could..." after poking around a bit I've discovered Screenwriter can and I'm off and running. Now with the new outline feature and script notes changes I am almost 100% fully loaded. Not quite, but as close as anything else out there.

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Buyer's feedback: - Thanks to this, I don't have to think about format, just creation
After trying both Final Draft and Screenwriter, I decided on Screenwriter, simply because I had an easier time with the demo than I did with final draft, though it seems others have differing opinions judging by some of the other reviews on Amazon. After looking through the tutorial in the manual, I was easily able to quickly format my scripts, leaving me to think solely about the creative process. As I find writing a difficult process at times, it's nice to be able to let the computer do the formatting instead of me having to worry about it. The Templates included are useful to see how the pros do it, and would be very useful for those writing spec scripts. I use the Mac version, and have had no problems using it on OS X. One great feature I have used was the ability to import a script formatted in Word into the correct formatting of Screenwriter. While only about 75 percent accurate, it sure beat typing all of what I had already written outside of the program again. In summary, I've found it does everything it sets out to do, and you can't ask more from a product than that!

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Buyer's feedback: - * Best of the Best ...
I started using screenwriting software in 2000, with the purchase of Scriptware For Windows. I used it to write several screenplays and it works okay as far as formatting goes. However, it is difficult to navigate from one section of your screenplay to another, especially as it gets toward the end, when it's around 120 pages long. Recently, since there have been no upgrades of Scriptware, I began looking for a replacement. I found that the only two real contenders are Movie Magic Screenwriter and Final Draft. I tried both demo programs before buying MMS and can't believe the reviewers who say that the programs are about equal.
From my experience they are equal only in the fact that they both make it easy to correctly format a screenplay (and other forms). From that point on, Movie Magic Screenwriter blows Final Draft clear out of the water. Ways to outline, annotate, navigate, and bookmark your screenplay are much more obvious and better implemented in MMS. You should also know that the "registration with the WGA-W" feature that is found in Final Draft (and in the Windows version of MMS) is over-hyped. [...]. Simple. So don't make your decision to buy based on that minor feature. Read Ralph Lombreglia's review here for more details; that way I won't have to repeat them. If you make the right choice, i.e. MMS, you will enjoy much easier screenwriting.