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Final Draft V8.0.1.89

Final Draft is screenwriting software for writing and formatting a screenplay to meet the screenplay submission standards set by the theater, television and film industry. The program is developed and owned by Final Draft, Inc., headquartered in Calabasas, CA; the company also owns Script magazine. It can also be used to write other documents such as stageplays, outlines, treatments, query letters, novels, graphic novels, manuscripts, and basic text documents. Final Draft is considered the industry standard for writing screenplays, teleplays, and other creative scripts.
The current version, Final Draft 8, was released at the end of April 2009. It contains over 50 movie and television templates, and also allows users to assign computer generated voices to their characters, who then read the script aloud.[1] Other features include CollaboWriter, which allows multiple Final Draft users to collaborate on scripts simultaneously in real-time via the Internet. Final Draft AV is a similar script-writing program which is designed for writing television videos, reality television, news, commercials, corporate and training videos, documentaries, and presentations. First released in 2001, it uses the split-page, two-column audio and video format. A Final Draft companion application for the iPad is currently in development. The application would work with Final Draft 8's .fdx format.
Final Draft's main competitors are Movie Magic Screenwriter, Celtx, and Adobe Story.