Even if you’re reading a screenplay purely for fun, you’re reading something that isn’t a final product. You’re proofreading your own draft, checking for plot holes, misspellings, or colossal suckiness. You’re “breaking down” a script for production. You’ve promised to give a friend your honest opinion on her latest effort. Reading screenplays, however, is more than just “reading”-it’s work. Maybe not as good as a Kindle, but darn good. It’s painfully obvious that the iPad is good for reading. I knew that there would be some way that the iPad would become the powerhouse document reader I’d dreamed of. So for this reason alone, the price of the iPad felt “pre spent” to me on the day of the announcement. The only real option I considered was the (now discontinued) Kindle DX, which could correctly display PDFs and cost $489. A Thousand Screenplays in Your Pocketīefore the iPad was even announced, I dreamed of a better way of reading screenplays.
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Most screenplays are shared in PDF format, and that’s a very good thing. But it lacks annotation features, so there is room for Final Draft Reader-if FDX files and their embedded “scriptnotes” are exclusively the world you tread in.īut of course, that’s not the case for most filmmakers. FDX Reader is a must-have for any screenwriter, and a model of iPad beauty and simplicity. Screenwriter and Fountain co-creator John August has an excellent app for just that. There’s nothing new about reading FDX files, the native format of Final Draft, on an iPad.
It will be interesting to see what they’ve come up with. The company had already warned us that they were scaling back their iPad efforts from a full screenplay editing app to just a reader. announced yesterday that they’ll be releasing Final Draft Reader for iPad next week.
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