Movie Magic Screenwriter
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| Use: | Screenwriting software |
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| Website: | www.screenplay.com |
Movie Magic Screenwriter is a word processing program sold by Write Brothers, Inc. to format screenplays, teleplays and novels. Screenwriter was originally developed by ScriptPerfection Enterprises, Inc., under the name ScriptThing. The program was purchased by Write Brothers, with the transition completed in 2001. It supports the Mac OS X and Windows operating systems.
The program is designed to automate the formatting of Action, Character Name, Dialog and other elements associated with writing screenplays using Command line completion. This is done mainly via the Tab and Enter/Return keys.
The Mac version of Screenwriter won a MacWorld Editor's Choice Award for the year 2000.
Movie Magic Screenwriter is the official scriptwriting software of Scryptic Studios - an online organization of comic book writers - and has been given the title of Official Screenwriting Software by Project Greenlight, Writers Guild of America-east, Screamfest, Cinema Seattle, Austin Film Festival and the UCLA Online Screenwriting Program.
Write Brothers' first software program, Scriptor (1982), was the world's first screenplay formatter.
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[edit] Program Features
Import/Export - Import documents written in standard word processors (Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, etc.) and other writing software programs. Export documents to many file formats including word processors and Adobe Acrobat PDF.
Production Revision Tracking - Allows users to lock scripts in order to keep track of exact changes using Auto-revision Marks, Revision Draft colors, A-pages and A-scenes.
Script Tagging - Snippets of words/phrases can be tagged into production categories for breakdown reports and exporting to EP Scheduling (Movie Magic Scheduling).
iPartner - This feature allows two users of Movie Magic Screenwriter to connect to each other to work together, in real-time, on a document. This feature also includes Text and Voice chat.
SmartCheck - Checks for formatting errors, such as extra blank spaces, leading spaces, etc., against industry standard formatting.
Text-to-Speech - Documents can be read back to the user using the pre-defined voices in the speech engine; speed and pitch of the voices can be adjusted.
Cross-Platform - Documents can be used on (and exchanged between) Windows and Mac platforms.
[edit] System Requirements
- WINDOWS
- Pentium or higher
- Windows 95 or higher
- 32 MB RAM
- 25 MB of Hard Disk Space
- CD-ROM drive (network installation not supported)
- iPartner requires Internet connection, optional microphone and speakers for voice chat
- Video Card w/8MB or greater recommended for Full Page View.
- MACINTOSH
- Power PC or higher
- OS 9.2, OS X
- 32 MB RAM
- 25 MB of Hard Disk Space
- CD-ROM drive (network installation not supported)
- iPartner requires Internet connection, optional microphone and speakers for voice chat
- Speak script function requires Macintosh Speech extensions
[edit] Product Reviews
"Movie Magic Screenwriter ... allows the neophyte writer to stop worrying about format and focus all of her attention where it really belongs: on the story. Screenwriter is a super-customized word processing program designed to make writing a script as simple and intuitive as writing a grocery list." - Scryptic Studios (Source)
