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- The reason more professional screenwriters use Final Draft isn't because it's the easiest or the most feature-packed. It's because it has the production features professionals need to get their jobs done. Let's take a quick look at some of the more really technical tools. Once a script becomes a production or a shooting draft, it must be locked. That means no matter how many additional changes are made to the text, the page breaks can't shift up or down. Why? A movie or a TV show or a web series is always a collaborative effort. Every creative worker, every book keeper, every executive must be on the same page, literally. If I added a few sentences to the end of this action, you'd expect the new text to push the text beneath it down, ripple through the page breaks, and maybe increase the overall page count, right? But this is a shooting script and that means it's locked. Final draft automatically takes the…

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