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Scripts

Import the screenplay, manage revisions, and keep every department working from the current pages.

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What it does

Scripts holds the living screenplay for the production. Import what your writer sends — Final Draft, Fountain, PDF — and Cinethread reads the scene structure out of it. From there the scenes feed the Schedule and the call sheets, so a script change doesn’t mean re-entering anything downstream.

The Scripts editor: a Navigator panel listing two scenes with page counts, a screenplay page in Courier showing a slugline, action, character and dialogue, and a Document panel with element, behaviour and typography controls.
The editor formats as you type — tab and enter move between slugline, action, character and dialogue, so you never touch a style menu. The Navigator on the left counts pages per scene as you write.

Getting started

  1. Import the draft. Upload an .fdx, Fountain file or PDF. Cinethread parses scene headings, int/ext, day/night and page counts.
  2. Check the breakdown. Review the detected scenes. Fix anything the parser misread — it only takes a moment and everything downstream depends on it.
  3. Push to the schedule. Send the scenes to the Schedule to start ordering your shoot days.
  4. Issue revisions. When new pages arrive, import them as a revision. The current draft is always the one your team opens.

Worth knowing

Real importers

Final Draft, Fountain and PDF — not copy-paste. Scene structure comes through intact.

Revision history

Keep every draft, but make it obvious which pages are current.

Feeds everything

Scenes flow to the Schedule and onto call sheets, so the script is the origin of the day.

Search the script

Find a scene, a set or a line without scrolling through a PDF.

Tip. Fix parser mistakes right after import rather than later — the Schedule and call sheets read from this breakdown, so corrections here save work everywhere else.

Common questions

What formats can I bring in?

Final Draft (.fdx), Fountain, PDF and Celtx exports. Scene headings, action, character and dialogue come across as real elements, not flat text.

How do scenes reach the Schedule?

Link the script to a production and its scene headings become strips automatically. Edit the script later and the strips follow — your breakdown and day assignments stay attached.

Can two people write at once?

Share the script and you both edit the same document, with revision history to fall back on.

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