RELEASE NOTES FOR MOVIE MAGIC SCREENWRITER 6
August 2007

These Release Notes are organized as follows:

1.	New features in 6.0
2.	Compatibility With Movie Magic Screenwriter 2000 (4.x)
3.	Known Problems
4.	Screenwriter’s New License Management System
5.	Contact Info
	
PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS ENTIRE DOCUMENT!

1. NEW FEATURES IN 6.0

The most exciting new feature is the NaviDoc and the ability to do Outlining. The NaviDoc is a Panel, which appears to the left of your document, that allows you to quickly navigate through your document by Scenes, Notes, user specified Bookmarks and Outline Elements. 

What are Outline Elements? Screenwriter 6.0 includes a new outlining feature that is fully customizable. So no matter what story Paradigm you use (e.g. Dramatica, Three Act Paradigm, Hero’s Journey, etc.) you can outline that way in Screenwriter. 

Here is a quick list of what is new in Movie Magic Screenwriter 6:
	Integrated outlining lets you create and manipulate outlines up to thirty levels deep. 
	The NaviDoc technology lets you navigate through your document effortlessly and has four panels:   
	The Outline panel lets you add, remove, and rearrange outline elements 
	The Scenes panel lets you navigate and sort your scenes at the click of a button 
	The Bookmarks panel lets you set bookmarks to jump to any place in your document 
	The Notes panel lets you create and sort color-coded notes & note categories 

Over 30 new templates for a total 104 templates and 12 sample files 
o	25 new TV show templates for a total of 86 TV templates 
o	2 new sample files (comic story arc & radio play) and 2 updated sample files (screenplay and stage play) for a total of 12 sample files 
o	3 new Instructional templates (classic film structure outline, screenplay, & sitcom structure) for a total of 8 instructional templates. 
o	4 new blank templates (generic comic, Gossett-Kayle comic, radio play, & radio show) and 1 modified template (stage play) for a total of 10 blank templates 
	Courier MM Screenwriter custom-made font for superior onscreen display and printing—not available anywhere else on the market 
	Improved tool bars & context menus   
	Fit width zoom automatically adjusts the text size of your script as you resize the window 
	Redesigned look and feel to accommodate the latest versions of Windows and Mac. 
	Menus reorganized for easier use 
	Send documents as email attachments in Screenwriter RTF or Adobe Acrobat PDF formats 
	Retain previous versions of documents 
	Makes back up copies of documents 

2. COMPATIBILITY WITH MOVIE MAGIC SCREENWRITER 4.X AND OLDER 
File Format
The new features in Movie Magic Screenwriter 6.0 such as the NaviDoc, Outline Elements and Note Categories allow you to store and organize more information in your document than in previous versions of the program. In order to save this information in the document, it required us to modify the file format. The new format uses the .mmsw extension and cannot be opened in previous versions of Movie Magic Screenwriter.
Movie Magic Screenwriter 6.0 can import any files created with older versions of Screenwriter (importing a .scw file will in no way alter that file; instead, a new copy of it will be created in the .mmsw format.). Screenwriter 6 also has the ability to export to the old Screenwriter 2000 (4.x) .SCW format, which will allow you to open the exported file in older versions of the program. However, all of your Outline Elements will be converted to Notes.
Running Screenwriter 4.X And Screenwriter 6 Simultaneously
We do not recommend running both versions at the same time. If you need to transfer text from Screenwriter 2000 (4.x) documents to Screenwriter 6 documents, simply import said document into Screenwriter 6 and copy and paste from there 3. 

3. KNOWN ISSUES
Checking for Updates
The program will check for updates automatically and notify you if an update is available. We strongly suggest that you get every update that is available since we will be addressing the known issues below as well as other issues. 
Alternately you can go directly to the update page at: http://support.screenplay.com/_redir/updates/mmsw6macupdate.html

Other Issues

	• 	When you select an Outline Element and then click on the Script Note icon on the Right Speedbar, the selected text only becomes unselected. 
	• 	Editing an Index Card with Notes while in the Index card window results in all of the Notes in that Category being reset to the Current Note Category.
	• 	The text of an index card scrolls down (jumps) when clicking in the index card. 
	• 	Replace All command becomes enabled after you have searched for a word.
	• 	Character Names with spaces do not get auto-formatted when entered while in Index Card mode.
	• 	Goto Next A-Page option does not work.
	• 	When you drag an outline style from the outline panel to another documents outline panel, all the note categories from the document you dragged from are copied to the document you dragged the outline style to.
	• 	Scene Labels remain in the document after you have unchecked the option Put in “SCENE”.
	• 	Assertion when enabling voice command option in Panther.
	• 	When you compare two documents, the notes and other outline style element colors change to the default note color in the Redlined~StrikedOut document created by the program.
	• 	When you show a Mac Screenwriter document in iPartner to partner on a PC, the iPartner document view on the PC has black text with a gray background color.
	• 	Cannot Undo any editing changes made in the Index Card view.  
	• 	When you select text in an element other than Character Name and then click on the Character Element option in the right toolbar, the selected text gets deleted from the document.  
	• 	When you cheat an element and then attempt to reset the cheated script, the element that was cheated may not get reset.
	• 	Avoid changing the scale percentage in Page Setup to 200% because the margins can enlarge with the text which may cause the insertion of unwanted spaces in the text.
	• 	Screenwriter creates a corrupt RTF file when you export to RTF format if the original script has an orphaned (single) open curly brace “{“.  It is recommended that you do not use curly braces in your document if you plan on exporting to RTF.
• 	Dual column character names do not handle Character extensions when the extensions wrap

4. SCREENWRITER’S NEW LICENSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

We are implementing a new license management system with this version of Movie Magic Screenwriter. This license management system is unique since it puts you, the user, in control. It is similar to the current system in that it allows you to install the program on 3 computers at a given time. However, it is quite different in that it is impossible to “lose” installs. Here is how it works:  

When you activated your copy, you were asked to give a name for the computer on which you were activating the program, using up one of the “slots”. If you were to install the program and activate it on a 2nd computer, you would again be given the opportunity to activate in a 2nd slot. If you were to repeat the process on a third computer it will allow you to specify a computer name for the 3rd slot. Thus allowing you to install and run the program on 3 separate computers.  

Now what happens if you want to install it on a 4th computer? You will be given the option to remove the activation on one of the other computers so you can place it on the fourth one. You do not need to uninstall the program off of the older system, the deactivation will take place automatically through the Internet. 

While no system is perfect, we hope to make this new system as user friendly as possible. A lot of that will depend on your feedback on how we can improve this system and any bugs or problems you have with the system.

5. WRITE BROTHERS CONTACT INFO

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Email:  http://support.screenplay.com/_redir/contactCS.html (recommended)
Or mailto:sales@screenplay.com
Phone: (800) 84-STORY / International (818) 843-6557
Fax: (818) 843-8364

SUPPORT:
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