Fade In

Fade In

Fade In is professional screenwriting software used by working screenwriters. It provides a comprehensive set of features to help you write, format and revise your script.

Fade In offers a powerful, user-friendly scriptwriting platform to help writers create professional-grade screenplays quickly and easily.

Features

1. Full-Featured Script Editor: Fade In has a full-featured script editor that allows you to write, format, and edit your screenplay in an attractive and intuitive interface. Elements such as scene headings, action, characters, dialogue and transitions are formatted automatically, and a distraction-free full-screen mode is available.

2. Story Organization: Fade In lets you organize your story by sequences, plot points, themes, characters and other elements, add synopses to scenes and color-code everything as you like.

3. Navigator: Fade In's Navigator lets you quickly jump to any scene in your script and reorder scenes, making it easy to move around as you develop and revise your story.

4. Reports: Fade In's reports give you a clear overview of your script, including scene, cast and location breakdowns, which can be printed or saved as HTML or CSV.

5. Revision Management: Fade In lets you lock scenes and pages, track omitted scenes and view, edit and print modified pages in standard revision colors through pre-production.

6. Collaboration: Fade In includes online realtime collaboration with other writers, and the optional Fade In Access service adds cloud storage, file versioning, syncing and web access.

7. Script Writing Templates: Fade In includes built-in templates for screenplays, stage plays and half-hour and one-hour television scripts to help you get started quickly.

8. Dialogue Tuner: This tool shows all of a single character's dialogue in one place so you can check it for consistency and voice, and it highlights overused words by frequency.

9. Production Tools: Fade In includes a variety of features to help with the production of your screenplay. You can tag script elements for production breakdowns and batch generate securely watermarked copies.

10. Import and Export: Fade In opens and saves Final Draft (.fdx) files, imports Word, RTF, Fountain, Celtx, Scrivener and other formats, and outputs directly to PDF.

Conclusion

Fade In is a complete screenwriting application for Windows, macOS and Linux. It makes it easy to write, format, and edit your screenplay. With Fade In, you can organize your story, jump to any scene in your script, generate reports, manage revisions, collaborate with other writers, and more. You can also exchange scripts with Final Draft users and export to PDF. The full version is a one-time purchase with free updates, and a full-featured demo is free to download, although it watermarks printed output.