Script

An empty Script tab offers four ways in: Brief the Director (the most common: describe the film in the chat), Write it from a brief (the Claude writer), Write it yourself, or Import Fountain. Starters chosen when creating the project open here as version 1.

• Concept is the idea on one page, before the script. It is optional. Each concept starts with a # heading and can carry a = logline line. Choose Edit concept to change it and Back to the script to return.
• Script is the screenplay in Fountain, the plain-text screenplay format: scene headings (INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT), action, character cues, dialogue, V.O., lyrics and transitions.
• One Script checkpoint covers both. While the Director proposes it, Request changes and Approve & continue appear in the toolbar.

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• Press ⌘S (or Save version) to save a new version. Unsaved edits show an amber dot and Unsaved changes.
• Open the version picker (v3 ▾) to see the history. Opening an older version is read-only: Back to latest returns, Restore this version copies it into a new version. Nothing is ever overwritten.
• Unsaved edits are kept in this browser. If you come back later you see Restored your unsaved draft with Discard draft. Drafts do not follow you to other devices; save a version to keep them.
• If the Director saves a version while you are editing, your edits are kept and saving puts them on top.

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Each dialog shows the price before it runs: ≈ N credits (max M) · charged at cost, never above the max. Writing takes up to a minute. For music videos the runtime is the song’s length.

The Spot timing card estimates the runtime from the text and compares it with the target (or the nearest 15, 30 or 60 s spot). Within ±10 % is green; outside it the card says what to do, such as “cut ~4 s of copy or action” or “~7 s to fill (hold shots, add a beat or a super)”.

• Action reads at about 3.5 words per second, dialogue at 2.5; V.O. and lyrics play over the picture; each scene is at least 2 s.
• More than 3 spoken words per second in a scene raises a warning: trim the copy.
• Music videos show Runtime instead: the song sets the length.

• Outline: one row per scene with INT/EXT, time of day, synopsis, characters and estimated seconds. Click a row to jump to it.
• Beats: built from # ACT sections and = synopsis lines.
• Characters: everyone with dialogue, their lines and word counts, and V.O. badges.

Break into scenes turns the scene headings of the open version into rows for the Storyboard (it saves first if needed). Afterwards the button reads N scenes from vN; run it again to refresh them. The toast links to Generate shots from these scenes →. It is free and needs at least one scene heading.

• Draft view colour-codes each Fountain element; Page view shows screenplay margins.
• The status bar shows the current element, words and scenes, problems, and the cursor position. Click problems for the list; for example a heading without “- DAY” or “- NIGHT” gets a hint so boards are lit right.
• Import Fountain accepts .fountain, .spmd, .txt and .md files up to 2 MB, or pasted text, as a concept or a script. Export .fountain downloads the open document.