Bela Lampert

Optioned Screenwriter / Yoga Instructor

“Cheat” Your Way To A Lower Page Count With Final Draft 12

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Cheating In Final Draft 12 Screenwriters in general are constantly worried about their page count. That is because as a screenwriter you have to tell a complex story with vivid characters and amazing twists and turns, and since a page is roughly one minute of...

Creating Cast Lists In Final Draft 12

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="66973"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Create Cast Lists For TV Sitcom Scripts In Final Draft 12 Let’s have a look at cast lists in Final Draft. This is something that is especially interesting to sitcom writers. Cast lists are lists underneath the scene headings. It is a list of all the...

Watermarking In Final Draft 12

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Secure Your Script With Watermarks In Final Draft 12 In this lesson we’ll look at how to assign a watermark to a script when you print it or pdf it. Sometimes you want to give a script a watermark before you hand it to someone either...

Reports In Final Draft 12

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Exporting Script Information Via Reports In Final Draft 12 (Note: Screenshots are from verison 11, but Reports work the same way in Final Draft 12) Sometimes you as a writer or maybe the production departments needs an overview of certain script information to plan the shoot....

Scene Numbers In Final Draft 12

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="66973"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Scene Numbers In Final Draft 12 (Note: Screenshots are from version 11 but it works the same way in Final Draft 12.) In this article we’ll have a look at scene and page numbers. This is a very important part of the pre-production and production phase...

Final Draft Revision Colors

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Setting Up And Using Revisions In Final Draft What Are Revisions? Revisions are essentially script pages that have been changed after the page and scene numbering of a script has already been locked. Since it’s important in the pre-production and production phase of a movie that...

Writing With Final Draft Mobile

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Write Your Screenplay With The Final Draft Mobile App I honestly thought about not even making a video about this, the writing with the Final Draft Mobile App because it’s so straight forward, but anyway. Maybe you don’t have the app and want to see...

Importing And Exporting Your Script With Final Draft Mobile

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Importing And Exporting Your Script With Final Draft Mobile Let’s look at how you can get files in and out of Final Draft Mobile. I’m showing you this on the iPad but it’s basically the same on the iPhone. Importing We have the start up screen here that...

Importing Your Script With Final Draft 12

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] How To Import Your Script Into Final Draft 12 Let’s take a look at what kinds of file formats you can import into Final Draft 12. It’s all pretty simple and straight forward. Final Draft 12 doesn’t have a real “Import” function because you don’t really need...

Exporting Your Script With Final Draft

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] How To Export Your Script With Final Draft 12 If you want to export your finished script, there are several formats that Final Draft 12 offers you to do that. Let’s have a look at each one of them. FDX Of course. This is Final Draft 12’s...