I completely have to agree with another poster on here and this is also something I posted a while back on the Montage forum. I like the idea of this program and I think it could have a promising future, but the developers should never have slapped a 1.0 on this and a price tag yet. This should still be in beta or development mode. I said this before and I will say it again:

MONTAGE DEVELOPERS - NO ONE WRITES A SCRIPT IN A FRIGGIN VACUUM!!!!

Your importing and exporting functions still are terrible and unreliable. If you develop a competing product to a well established one, IE - Final Draft, you better make sure and I MEAN SURE, it can deal in a Final Draft world. Take a lesson from Apple. They are becoming a viable alternative to Windows to many more people everyday. WHY? Because they are continually making it handle a Windows world better and better.

Two elements should have been incorporated in Montage from day 1 - a solid import of Final Draft documents and a solid export. There is STILL no ability to to even handle scene numbers and when you import a FD document with them, they are gone in Montage.

Then I ask you, what the hell do people do with scripts written in this program??? Ok, so you are done, but people wanting to go into production are going to need scene numbers, they are going to need to be able to use Tagger for breakdowns and then import it into Scheduling and Budgeting - ALL OF THIS REQUIRES A FINAL DRAFT VERSION!!!

What you have built for someone is a program that will do nothing for them but allow them to finish a script and save it to their computer. The export to RTF and then into Final Draft is a disaster.

To me, the ability to deal in an industry that is all about Final Draft is the MOST important feature for a screenwriting software. NO ONE investigating a good screenwriting software for the Mac should even consider this software until they implement this needed feature.

As it sits, the software is a nice looking, but overpriced, worthless word processing software.