Import a Final Draft FDX or Fountain file and Production Slate extracts every scene, character, and location automatically — then lets you read the script inside the app with full screenplay formatting and tag breakdown items by dragging the cursor across a word. Each tag creates a real art item in your breakdown.
Every schedule, budget, and call sheet starts from the page. Production Slate reads your Final Draft or Fountain file, builds the entire breakdown, and keeps the original screenplay one click away — formatted exactly how your script supervisor reads it, with tagged elements linked to the rest of your production.
Click "Read Script" on the Script tab and the full screenplay opens with proper formatting — scene headings bold, dialogue indented, character cues centered. Reads exactly like a printed script.
Select any word or phrase in the script body, pick a category (Props, Wardrobe, Set Decoration, etc.), and click Create Tag. A real art item is added to your breakdown with the scene number auto-detected.
Character cues link straight to the cast member's page. Location names in scene headings link to the Locations tab. Scroll-and-highlight takes you to the exact row.
The preview sidebar lists every scene like chapters in a book. Click a scene to jump to it; expand to see every person, location, and prop that appears inside.
Click any existing tag in the script to rename it, change its category, jump to the entity's tab, or remove it. Prop renames cascade to the Art row; character renames cascade to Cast.
Upload a Final Draft .fdx or a Fountain .fountain file (Highland, Fade In, Slugline, Celtx exports). Scenes, characters, and locations extract automatically; FDX TagData becomes breakdown items.
Scene headings parse into INT/EXT, location, and time of day. Each scene becomes a schedulable unit in the stripboard, with page count in industry-standard eighths.
Merge mode matches scenes by their content — not just their number — so inserting a scene mid-script won't shift your data. It preserves notes, honors locked scene numbers, and never touches your shot list. Re-import a revised draft without losing work.
A take-by-take supervisor log that lives inside the Script tab, separate from the Camera Log but auto-populated whenever a take lands. Edit dialogue changes, script notes, pages covered, and take status without re-typing what the AC already entered. Export the standard Daily Script Supervisor's Report PDF at wrap.
When the AC adds a take in the Camera Log, a matching supervision row appears automatically, pre-filled with scene, shot, take, roll, clip, and the circle-take status. The supervisor adds dialogue changes, script notes, pages covered, and overrides the status if needed.
Every take is editable: scene, shot, take, date, roll, and clip. Once the supervisor edits a row it is marked manual, and later camera log changes can't overwrite it. Edit mid-day while the AC keeps updating theirs.
Filter by scene, by shoot date, by status (Print / NG / Hold / Wild), or "Manual edits only" to focus on rows you've touched. Filters compose so you can drill straight to "today's prints in scene 5".
Type scene, shot, take, date, and roll straight off the slate, pick Print, NG, Hold, or Wild, and Save and log next bumps the take number. No Shot List entry or camera log needed, so wild lines and pickups go in too.
Pick a date and export the standard Daily Script Supervisor's Report PDF: production header, status strip (Takes / Print / NG / Hold / Wild), and a per-scene table. Choose which columns print (Roll, Timecode, Director or Sound notes and more) and how wide, or export the whole log as CSV or Excel for editorial.
Print rows tinted green, NG muted, Hold amber, Wild blue. The supervisor sees coverage health at a glance without reading every cell.
Real script supervisors line their pages — vertical bars in the margin showing which shots cover which sections. Production Slate does it for you: when you mark a shot complete in the Shot List, a lining row writes itself spanning the linked scene's range, color-coded by coverage type. Switch the reader into Lining mode to refine ranges manually or annotate a shot with notes.
Tick the green check on a shot in the Shot List and the matching scene gets lined automatically. Re-toggle and the lining stays at one row — no duplicates, no sweeping cleanup.
WIDE → Wide (blue), MCU/CU → Close-up (amber), MS / Cowboy / Two-shot → Medium (green), Insert → Insert (purple). The badge color tells you at a glance what kind of coverage you have for each scene.
Open Read Script and lined sections show colored vertical lines running through the text itself — exactly like a hand-lined supervisor's page — plus stripes on the scene chapter cards. Click any line or badge to edit the lining inline (shot, coverage, notes) or remove it.
Toggle into Lining mode, select text in the script body, pick a shot and coverage type, click Mark Covered. The lining record gets the exact character range you selected — perfect for partial coverage, OS, MOS pickups.
The same reader still does prop / wardrobe / set-dec tagging in Tagging mode. Switching modes never bleeds state between them — pick the right tab for the work in front of you.
The script reader isn't locked inside the Script tab anymore. Open it from the Shot List or Schedule, build shots from the text itself, and let the paperwork write itself.
A Read Script button sits in the Shot List and Schedule toolbars. Check coverage or scene content mid-planning without losing your place in either tab.
In Lining mode, select the action you're covering and create a shot directly from it. The selected text becomes the shot description and the selection's page-length lands in the notes in industry-standard eighths.
The Script Supervision Log suggests Pages Covered from each shot's lining — the supervisor confirms instead of measuring. Suggestions appear in the Daily Report PDF marked with ≈ until confirmed.
Import isn't a dead-end — it's the starting point. Everything you read, tag, or click in the script flows straight into the rest of Production Slate.
Four steps from script file to a fully-tagged breakdown. You spend the time you'd have spent re-typing on actual prep.
Drag in a Final Draft .fdx or Fountain .fountain file. The parser extracts scenes, characters, and locations.
Review every scene, character, and location in tabbed panels. Disable anything you don't want imported.
Click "Read Script" to open the screenplay in a formatted reader. Scene chapters list in the sidebar for fast navigation.
Highlight a word, pick a category, create a tag. Each one becomes a real breakdown item linked to the scene it appears in.
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Import your first script freeor try the interactive demo first
How script pages are measured in eighths and why scheduling depends on it.
Your imported scenes flow straight onto the stripboard, pages-in-eighths included.
Free tool: total scene lengths in eighths and estimate how many shoot days you need.
What the circled take on a script supervisor log means and how it reaches the edit.
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