Import a Final Draft File into Plot
Bring an .fdx script into Plot from the projects page, check the preview with its title page, and keep writing with every element in place.
The script arrives as a script
Scene headings, action, character cues, dialogue, parentheticals and transitions arrive as the same screenplay elements you would type in Plot, and the title page comes with them. The project takes its name from the title page.
Fountain files and screenplay PDFs come in the same way. A PDF holds printed pages rather than a script's structure, so the import report says where Plot had to guess.
Check it before it lands
The preview shows the title page and the opening of the script before anything is created. If a line could not be read as a screenplay element, it arrives as action and the import report lists it, so you fix the few that need it.
When the office asks for a file, Plot exports Final Draft, PDF, Fountain and Word.
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Meet Plot: Screenplay Editor Tour
Write a scene, explore a rewrite on a draft line, ask about your screenplay, review an Agent Mode edit, and keep a save point.
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Review an Agent Mode Edit in Plot
Give Agent Mode a scene note, inspect its proposed dialogue change, and accept the edit in your screenplay.
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Ask Plot About Your Screenplay
Ask where your screenplay reveals a character’s fear and follow the answer alongside the scene.
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Write Your First Scene in Plot
Start a new script and write a scene from a blank page: type a heading, press Enter and Tab, and Plot formats every line as a screenplay.
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Try a Rewrite on a Draft Line in Plot
Start a draft line, rewrite a line freely while Main stays as it was, then preview the difference and incorporate the rewrite.
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Keep a Named Save Point in Plot
Write until the draft is worth keeping, save it with a name, and find it at the top of version history whenever you need it.
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When Agent Mode Asks, It Keeps Working
Hand Agent Mode a bigger job, see it ask about the calls that are yours, and answer in one click while it keeps working on the scene.
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Leave a Note and Let the Dramaturg Address It in Plot
Leave a note on the words it is about, hand your open notes to the Dramaturg, and keep or undo the change it makes from the note.
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Choose Which Changes to Incorporate in Plot
Bring a draft line back to Main change by change: leave out what didn't work, and incorporate only the changes you chose.
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