

Adding their own improvements, the resulting product was Movie Magic Screenwriter. They researched what they thought were the best programs on the market, and teamed up with ScriptThing. Another, Final Draft, was developed for Macs.Īs the Scriptor company expanded with other products, it recognized that its core "conversion" software was outdated. One of the first was ScriptThing, created by Ken Schafer for Windows. You just wrote your screenplay, and it was instantly formatted. This all changed when standalone word processors entered the picture.


It was wonderful, though still a bit convoluted. Scriptor worked by first writing the script with one's regular word processor (such as Microsoft Word) and then the program's software formatted the work.

This began with a product called Scriptor, created by Stephen Greenfield and Chris Huntley, which was so revolutionary that the Motion Picture Academy awarded them a Technical Achievement Award in 1994 for their contribution to the creative process. (This is a group, by the way, that includes not only professional writers, but also the hugely-growing world of hopeful college screenwriters and even huger world of would-be closet screenwriters with their Great Story to tell.) That moment took all of the bizarre and near-incomprehensible conventions of screenplays and automated them.
