Exporting a script

When your script is ready for someone else, export it. Studio makes the file itself, so exporting works offline in the desktop app too.

Export a script

1. Open the script.
2. Open its file options (the sliders icon at the top left) and click Export script…, or press Cmd+K and run Export….
3. Choose a format, set the options and click Export.

The file is named after the script, and Studio remembers your choices on this computer for next time.

Add a BYOK Seal

Tick Add a BYOK Seal in the export window, or choose Export with a BYOK Seal… in the script's file options, to end the script with a BYOK Seal: a code and a link where readers can see how it was written. Whichever format a reader has, PDF, Final Draft or Fountain, they can drop it on the Seal's page to check that it matches. Page numbers, scene numbers, (MORE), (CONT'D) and the title page don't count, so any export of the same script matches. A Seal needs a Studio account and a connection.

PDF

The PDF is set like a professional script: 12-point Courier, the standard margins, and page numbers at the top right from page two. You can choose:

• Paper: US Letter or A4.
• Title page: start with the title page. The title, credit line, writer and Based on are centered; your contact details go bottom left and the draft date bottom right.
• Scene numbers: number every scene, in both margins.
• (CONT'D) when a character keeps talking: adds (CONT'D) after a name when the same character speaks again with only action in between.

Below the options, Studio shows how many pages the PDF will be, which is also about how many minutes of screen time.

When a long speech is split across two pages, the PDF marks it the way scripts do: (MORE) at the foot of the page, and the name with (CONT'D) at the top of the next. Sections and scene summaries don't print.

Letters Courier can't print

The PDF uses the Courier built into every PDF reader. It covers English and most Western European languages: letters like é, ü, ñ, ç and ø, curly quotes and dashes. Anything else, such as Polish ł, Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese or emoji, prints as ?. When that happens, Studio lists the letters affected after the export.

Final Draft and Fountain exports keep every character.

Final Draft

The .fdx file carries your scene headings, action, characters, parentheticals, dialogue, transitions, dual dialogue, bold, italic and underline. Tick Title page to include it. Final Draft lays the script out with its own settings when you open it.

Sections and scene summaries have no place in a Final Draft file, so they're left out.

Fountain

Fountain is plain text that most screenwriting apps can open, and it's how Studio keeps your script, so nothing is left out: the title page, sections and scene summaries all come along. There are no options to set.

Import a script

Bring scripts from other apps into Studio:

1. Click Import on the dashboard, or the upload icon in the drawer.
2. Choose one or more .fountain or .fdx files.
3. Each becomes a script in the folder you're in, named after the file.

From Final Draft, the title page, scene numbers, dual dialogue, bold, italic and underline come in with the words.

On your phone

On a phone or tablet, open the script's file menu (the sliders icon) and export it as Fountain. Tick Add a BYOK Seal first to end it with a BYOK Seal. For a PDF or a Final Draft file, export from the web or the desktop app. The mobile Files tab imports .fountain files; import .fdx files on the web or in the desktop app.