Movie Magic Screenwriter is a
word processing A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features.
Word processor (electronic device), Early word processors were stand-alone devices dedicate ...
program sold by
Write Brothers to format
screenplay
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s,
teleplay
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s and
novel
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s.
History
Stephen Greenfield and Chris Huntley created Scriptor, one of the earliest screenplay writing programs, that worked by converting word processor documents into screenplay style.
The program's importance was highlighted by an
Academy Award
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for technical achievement in 1994.
Scriptor later purchased ScriptThing, another screenwriting program, which was combined into Movie Magic Screenwriter.
The program was considered an industry standard, along with
Final Draft.
The Mac version of Screenwriter won a
Macworld Editor's Choice Award for the year 2000.
From 2003 to 2006, Screenwriter was the script-writing team's preferred tool on the popular BBC series ''
Doctor Who
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''.
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See also
*
List of screenwriting software
References
External links
* {{Official website , http://www.screenplay.com
Write Brothers, Inc.
Screenwriting software
Classic Mac OS software
MacOS text-related software
Windows text-related software