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Our Verdict
Fade In is a fully featured professional screenwriting app for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, and is priced affordably. It has all the features you’d find in the more expensive apps, such as Final Draft and Movie Magic Screenwriter, and there’s even free and paid iPhone, iPad, and Android apps available.
As an independent filmmaker for many years who has written screenplays in AppleWorks, Word, Movie Magic Screenwriter and, for over a decade now, Final Draft. Fade In, from GCC Productions, offers many of the same features found in the pricier apps, and far more than the free and discounted ones, such as Celtx.
Like all major screenwriting software, Fade In makes it easy to just write; it handles formatting of scenes, scene headings (such as INT. HOUSE – DAY), character names, dialogue and more, using the tab and return keys. It keep track of character names and locations, so you don’t have to type them out completely—just the first couple of letters. Fade In also supports CONT’Ds and MOREs, has a pretty good spellchecker and dictionary. You can number scenes, and there is a full screen mode that keeps you focused on writing. They also provide several templates, including screenplay, stage play, television: half-hour sitcom, and television: one-hour drama.
If you’ve written a script, or read a book on screenwriting, such as Screenplay by Syd Field, you know it’s all about staying organized. Fade In offers the usual organizational tools, such as creating index cards, or a list of your scenes. What I really like is organizing by color, and not just all the scenes, but by entire sequences, or import plot points in the script. I really like this fully customizable way of organizing a script.
This is especially useful when it comes to revisions, whether you’re doing another draft to tighten the script, or on-set rewrites. In the revision mode, you can lock pages or scenes, color code the latest scene rewrites, and manage everything. You can also create various reports and breakdowns that are needed for budgeting and scheduling. You’ll be able to export into a format that can be easily opened by a variety of pre-production software.
A common and growing trend in screenwriting software is the use of different apps. Final Draft is the industry standard, but many filmmakers and writers are turning to a variety of apps, including Fade In, Celtx, Adobe Story, and more. This does have the potential to be difficult if your co-writer is using Celtx, while you write with Fade In. The only unity when opening the script files is using Final Draft’s .fdx format, or .rtf. Fortunately, Fade In can open, edit and export RTF and FDX, along with .epub, PDF, XML, and more.
In this age of cloud computing, it’s great that you can access your script online or from another computer via Dropbox. I like this, because Dropbox is proven, and I don’t have to pay a monthly or annual fee for a cloud service on top of the cost of the app.
There are two Fade In Mobile apps, for iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android, one is free and the other is paid, but has many more features. You can import screenplays you’re working on in the desktop app via Dropbox, and work on more than one script at a time. I recommend going with the paid app.
Bottom line
With all the major features—and then some—found in industry standard Final Draft, but at a quarter of the price, GCC Productions’ Fade In is a great and affordable screenwriting app. It’s ability to import, edit, and export in the common .fdx format, is a huge plus. But what passes the big test for me is that the program gets out of my way and lets me be creative, while handling the chores formatting, organization, autocomplete typing, and more.
Fade In Content Viewer provides you a powerful script which can turn ordinary HTML content wrapped around DIV tags into a series of interactive contents, with one faded into view on demand. You can use it to spotlight new or important contents on. ...
- Fade In Content Viewer
- JavaScript Kit
- Freeware (Free)
- Linux , Mac OS , BSD , Solaris
With AudioQuick Editor you can edit audio quickly and easily, delete audio parts, apply fade in and fade out, crop audio, insert silence, adjust volume. You can convert audio between 7 formats, record all streaming music from your sound card.
- aqedit13.exe
- Pianosoft
- Demo ($19.90)
- 4.93 Mb
- Win2000, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Win98, WinVista, WinVista x64, WinXP
For the generation mp3, Abelssoft now provides the brand-new and even free app “mp3 cutter” to easily edit mp3 files. It helps you to cut out squeaky spots in a music file that was converted badly, cut out silence at the beginning or end and more.
- mp3cutterfree.exe
- Abelssoft
- Freeware (Free)
- 13.48 Mb
- WinXP, WinVista, WinVista x64, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, WinOther, WinServer, Windows 8
Its very easy to: -Fade in and out; -Add text; -Add images; -Add components; -Change colors; -Change shapes; -No Actionscript knowledge is required. Simply drag and drop one of the four objects into your existing Flash project! Free support as always. ...
- Flash Slide w/ Easing InfoPanel
- FlashComponents
- Shareware ($6.00)
- 488 Kb
- Win98, WinME, WinXP, Windows2000, Windows2003, Windows Vista
Fast MP3 Cutter Joiner cuts and trims a large MP3 file into multiple smaller pieces, and joins multiple MP3 files into a single file. It also offers forward and backward overlap, fade-in and fade-out, keeping ID3, batch cut, and batch join.
- fast_mp3_cutter_joiner.exe
- MP3-CUTTER.NET
- Shareware ($29.95)
- 868 Kb
- Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 3.x, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003, Windows Vista
After you input an audio file or record an audio sample, you can perform visual editing like cut, copy, paste, delete, trim, etc. MP3 Editor Pro provides audio effects like echo, fade in/out, chorus, normalize and a number of filters.
- Mp3EditorPro.exe
- MEPMedia Inc.
- Shareware ($29.95)
- 9.46 Mb
- WinXP, WinVista, WinVista x64, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Win2000, Windows2000, Windows2003, Windows Vista
A free screensaver showing several high quality apollo pictures with over 30 animations and fade in out effects. A must download for apollo lover.
- apollo.exe
- Affiliate Funnel System
- Freeware (Free)
- 1.21 Mb
- Win95, Win98, WinME, WinXP, Windows2000, Windows2003, Windows Vista, Windo
FreeTrim MP3, a small and efficient tool, enables you to trim MP3 file with high speed. This software can trim many kinds of audio files (WMA, WAV, MP3, MP2, MPGA, CDA, OGG, etc.) and save them to WMA, MP3, WAV & OGG formats.
- FreeTrimMP3.exe
- LeadMediaSoft
- Freeware (Free)
- 7.01 Mb
- Win2000, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, WinOther, WinServer, WinVista, WinVista x64, WinXP
Free MP3 WMA Cutter can cut MP3/WMA/WAV/OGG sound piece from big audio format files directly. You can add fade-in, fade-out and some other cool & handy effects to the audio selection with ease.
- FreeMP3WMACutter.exe
- FreeAudioVideo Software
- Freeware (Free)
- 7.25 Mb
- Win2000, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, WinOther, WinServer, WinVista, WinVista x64, WinXP
Software that will allow you to join and merge up to 30 different kinds of formats of video. It is also a video editor that will allow you to customize your video joins by adding effects such as fade-in and fade-out.
- x-video-joiner2-for-mac.dmg
- xilisoft.com
- Shareware ($19.95)
- 29.98 Mb
- Mac OS X
WaveMaker MP3 to WAV Converter is an easy-to-use audio software that lets you convert MP3 files into CD quality standard PCM wave (.WAV) digital audio files with support for Normalize, Fade-in, Fade-out and Delete Silence among other trendy features.
- MP3toWavSetup.exe
- Sumanasa Technologies
- Shareware ($)
- 1.01 Mb
- 9x, NT, 2000, ME, XP
PopupNotify is an ActiveX control provides MSN style popup alerts. Popup alerts fade in and slide up above the taskbar and disappear after a few seconds. Supports transparency, balloon tips, pictures, gradients, alignments and more! Unicode enabled.
- PopupNotifyDemo.msi
- Teebo Software Solutions
- Demo ($39.95)
- 1.26 Mb
- Windows