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Movie Magic® Screenwriter™ Overview
Movie Magic® Screenwriter™ is an all-in-one package for any story you want to write. Screenwriter handles script formats for motion pictures, theater, television, novels, comic books, and more. It formats while you write so you can focus on what you are writing, not where it goes on the page. Screenwriter’s massive set of features makes writing and rewriting fast and simple.
New in Version 6:
Integrated 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 Outline 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
Over 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 Instructional 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
Improved 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
Other Powerful Features:
Advanced word processing
Real-time spell checking and spelling auto-correction
Automatically checks for formatting errors
Formats for screenplays, TV, novels, stage plays, comic book scripts etc.
Fully editable index card view
Compare two documents
Customizable user links
Text-to-speech
Name bank
Thesaurus
iPartner™ online collaboration
Official formatting software of Writers Guild of America, East and preferred file format of WGA, West
Password protect documents
Import files from any word processor
Export to many file formats
Selective export to PDF
Storyboard linking (Windows only)
Comprehensive production script management
Full production breakdown reports
Industry standard revision draft colors
Revision tracking for shooting scripts
Integrated script tagging for export into Movie Magic Scheduling & others
Generate set lists and rundown sheets
Real-time scene renumbering
Free Internet and email support
Free phone support
Movie Magic® Screenwriter™ is the ultimate industry-standard writing tool crafted by Write Brothers®, the world’s most experienced developer of creativity writing solutions. Write Brothers® is the only company to win an Academy Technical Achievement Award for screenwriting software and has been behind the top award-winning feature films and television productions for over a quarter of a century. Our unparalleled experience makes Screenwriter 6 a tool with the flexibility to craft your story, your way.
Designed by produced writers, Screenwriter’s extensive features accelerate your creative workflow helping you craft polished, industry-standard script formats with less effort.
Screenwriter 6 sets a new standard for ease-of-use, flexibility, and reliability.
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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 Industry Standard Formatting, you can focus on writing your story as fast as you can get your thoughts onto the screen!.
Integrated Outlining
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
Instantly 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. It 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.
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.
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 Organize Your Ideas
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!
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 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!
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. It points them out to you (optionally even automatically fixing them!) saving you from wasting paper and hours of your time reprinting pages.
Don't Let Your Old Work Go To Waste
Screenwriter can import and export almost any text document (e.g. RTF, MS Word, Word Perfect, ASCII), 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
No Writer is an Island
With iPartner Internet Collaboration, Screenwriter allows you and a partner to collaborate on a script live over the Internet. 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.
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. Over 85 Free 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 Our Lives; Desperate Housewives; Drawn Together; Entourage; Ghost Whisperer; Heroes; House; How I Met Your Mother; Joan of Arcadia; King of the Hill; Malcolm in the Middle; Monk; The OC; The Office; 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!
Optional Foreign Spellcheck Dictionaries
Danish · Dutch · French · German · Italian · Norwegian · Spanish · Swedish · UK English
" I’ve tried most of the competing programs, and found Movie Magic Screenwriter to be far and away the best and most intuitive of the bunch. It’s straightforward enough that a new user can start writing perfectly formatted screenplays within moments of installing it. And it has powerful outlining and production features for those who need them. A perfect program, I will not write without it. "
-- Evan Katz
Exec Producer, "24" and "JAG"
"Writing for "24" is hard enough. Thank God we've got Movie Magic Screenwriter 6 that let's us get our ideas down with maximum ease. "
-- Manny Coto
Executive Producer, "24", "Enterprise" and "The Outer Limits"
"I've used Movie Magic Screenwriter for many years. Nothing is as simple, powerful, intuitive and versatile. And the support is outstanding."
Paul Haggis, Writer, Director,Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers, Crash (Best Picture & Best Original Screenplay 2005, Million Dollar Baby (Best Picture 2004)
"Movie Magic Screenwriter is the gold standard throughout the Hollywood studio system.... Superior program for addressing the challenges of production rewrites. There is no better screenwriting software on the market."
Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio, Writers, Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2, & 3, Shrek, Aladdin, Mask of Zorro
"I was the typewriter machine kind of guy and for several years I refused to switch to a computer. I thought it was going to be difficult and messy. But lot of friends finally convinced me. I bought my computer and: it was impossible to write a decent screenplay. I was always fighting the keyboard, with bad results, until someone recommended Movie Magic Screenwriter to me. Bingo! Suddenly everything became easy and professional and clean and...perfect. Movie Magic Screenwriter allowed me to concentrate on my writing, not on the keyboard. Now, all of my friends have switched to Movie Magic Screenwriter and we are very, very happy with it."
Guillermo Arriaga, Writer, Babel, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, 21 Grams, Amores Perros
