Some of my favorite film software's are not in post-production but rather pre-production. Sure, I love and use Final Cut Pro every single day of every single week but my biggest joy comes from using software's such as Celtx, OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle.

While I use Celtx and OmniOutliner with my writings, OmniGraffle is a tool that I use almost with any task. For complicated graphics, I plan out my tasks in the program.  I even try out basic graphic idea's, this is easy to do as OmniGraffle supports layers like Photoshop. This is not a professional image editing tool like Photoshop but to play around to see what works and what does not, this is a more suited tool. Also, when I scan my storyboards, I generally use OmniGraffle to make additional notes. Now this is visual organization tool, so it does that really well. It has wonderful integration with OmniOutliner so there no need to start over when you move to a different stage in the project. Check out this review of OmniGraffle for a better idea on what it does. In my ideal software world: OmniOutliner integrates with Celtx for moving from brainstorming to writing, Celtx integrates with OmniGraffle when I start to storyboard, OmniGraffle integrates with Final Cut Pro when I need to edit what I have shot and then Final Cut integrates with OmniGraffle for the graphics brainstorming phase, and, finally, OmniGraffle integrates with a graphics program to finish it off. Of course, this is not necessary but it would certainly be fun.