Migration guide · Final Draft
Final Draft remains the production-office default. Inkwell does not ask you to pretend otherwise — you import FDX, write in Fountain-native Plot, and export FDX or PDF when the room requires it. This guide walks the first session after import.
In Final Draft, save or export your script as .fdx. If you use revision mode, export the revision you want to continue in Inkwell — locked-page semantics may need a fresh save point after import.
Sign up at Inkwell, open Plot, and start a new screenplay project or open an existing one you want to replace.
In the Plot editor toolbar, open Import / Export and choose Final Draft (.fdx). Review any import warnings — edge-case elements surface here rather than silently dropping.
Before changing a line, create a save point — e.g. Imported from FD — Mar 12. That immutable snapshot is your rollback if the first rewrite goes wrong.
When production needs a file, use the same menu to export PDF (reads) or FDX (systems). The export reflects the version you are on — save points make that explicit.
Standard screenplay elements map into Plot's sixteen Fountain types. Complex production metadata may warn on import — check the import summary before continuing.
Yes. Many writers draft in Inkwell and export FDX for coordinators. Round-trip when you control the handoff; avoid editing the same file in both tools without a named version.
Revision colours ship at launch, included in the Pro tier. The fuller locked-script workflow — locked pages and A-pages — is on the Pro roadmap; import preserves structure, and full locked-script parity is marked partial on compare pages until it ships.
