This Academic Edition has the same features and capabilities of the retail version, and is shipped to you in a factory sealed retail box. However, this version is able to be sold below the retail price because of an educational discount.
Final Draft 8
You have a story to tell. Use Final Draft to write it.
Use your creative energy to focus on the content; let Final Draft take care of the style. Final Draft is the number-one selling application specifically designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics, and stageplays. It combines powerful word processing with professional script formatting in one self-contained, easy-to-use package. Don't waste valuable writing time on stringent formatting rules – Final Draft automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards as you write.
Key Features
The Industry Standard
For the last 20 years, nearly every film and television show has been scripted with Final Draft software. Final Draft software is the #1-selling scriptwriting program for screenwriters, TV writers, playwrights, and writers of new media and is also the industry standard for scriptwriting. It seamlessly formats your script as you type. Tab and Enter keys make formatting your script a snap, and More’s and Continued’s automatically appear at page breaks where needed.
Panels System
Keep your script in sync with Index Cards and Scene View.
Like most writers, you probably need to keep a lot of ideas at the front of your mind while you're writing. With the Panels System, you can split your screen into separate panels and view your script pages in one panel while you view another section of the script, your Index Cards, or Scene View in the other panel.
ScriptNotes
Keep track of ideas and feedback about sections of your script
ScriptNotes are a handy way to collect ideas and feedback without displaying them in script view. ScriptNotes are effective pop-up windows that hold your ideas, suggestions, or scene fragments you've cut but don't want to toss.
Toon Boom Storyboard Pro
Toon Boom Storyboard Pro is essential to the beginning of any audiovisual project. It helps you take an idea or message and bring it to life in a structured and professional manner. Storyboard Pro was developed in conjunction with seasoned storyboard artists and significantly speeds up the production and revision process. Toon Boom Storyboard Pro delivers powerful features that make it the tool of choice to create an entirely digital storyboard.
User Profiles:
Storyboard Artists
Directors and Producers
Game Designers
Communication Specialists
Key Benefits:
Faster turnaround
Reduced costs
Professional animated storyboards
Efficient visualization of your ideas
What’s New in Storyboard Pro 2
Content Creation Tools
Extended set of Tools and Tool Properties
Fast creation and reuse of brushes with specific settings
Easy creation of custom brushes using a stroke or a series of strokes
Practical setting of separate colours for Brush, Pencil and Paint tools
Convenient selection of strokes based on the selected stroke colour
Extended rich text support for captions
Convenient addition of sketch captions on a panel-by-panel basis
Input/Output Capabilities
Final Draft 8 support
Practical customization of the PDF export on a panel-by-panel basis
Improved PDF Export with Analyze functionality
Extended export to Final Cut Pro through XML
Final Cut Pro Conformation (Import / Export)
Easy assembling of scanned images based on new naming convention
Storyboarding Capabilities
Quick creation of new panels using all or only specific layers of currently selected panels
Practical tracking of changes made to panels
Naming convention improvements
Safe locking of panel names
Animatic Capabilities
Impressive camera movements across panels
Optimized playback
Real-time transitions
Convenient Thumbnails playback option
User Interface Improvements
Full scene antialiasing support (smoother drawing)
Enhanced support of both horizontal and vertical layer displays
Academic Proof Required
Student 
Organization 
The Industry Standard
Panels System
ScriptNotes
