Movie Magic Screenwriter for Mac

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• the app does the job...and the tech support is stellar.

  neimenOctober 27, 2010

  Pros

  the app's smarter and more stable than versions of final draft i've demo'd. feature set really shines in the revision phase (or phases) of scripting. and tech support is as quick and responsive as any i've ever encountered in a mac developer.

  Cons

  the initial learning curve is a little steep. and the app's inability to import final draft files--due to a proprietary format issue, i'm guessing--makes collaboration with someone who works in final draft a two-step process instead of one-step.

  Summary

  i first-draft in scrivener--which i can't recommend highly enough for working writers. but when it's time to get the script in submittable industry format and start finetuning pages and pagecount, screenwriter really helps with the heavy lifting.

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• Interesting Features - Installs Spyware

  TomredsonJune 11, 2008

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Movie Magic Screenwriter has many interesting features that help me better organize and edit my screenplays. This is the kind of thing that Final Draft might have come up with had they had been interested in even the slightest innovation over the last 15 years. The one caveat however is that MMS installs PACE Anti-Piracy software at the root level. This is reminiscent of the SONY Rookit. I realize that piracy is a problem, but there must be another way. If you don't mind giving applications root permission to phone home then you might like Movie Magic Screenwriter. I'll be upgrading to Leopard soon and I don't think that I'll have this running on my machine.

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