Screenplay Editor

Writing and drafts

The Screenplay Editor is the writing surface for an editable draft, separate from your Library. Start with a blank page, import an existing screenplay, or continue from a script in your Library. Professional formatting, autosave, checkpoints, importing, and exporting are free. Drafts and checkpoints do not count toward your script limit.

A draft can stand on its own or begin from a script in your Library. Editing never overwrites the Library script. When a revision is ready, add it to your Library. The draft and its checkpoints stay in Editor.

Importing and exporting

Import PDF, Final Draft .fdx, Fountain, or Fade In as an editable draft. Prescene parses the file into real screenplay elements so scene headings, character cues, dialogue, parentheticals, and transitions behave correctly in the editor.

Export PDF, Final Draft .fdx, Fountain, or plain text. PDF exports can include a proper title page, optional scene numbers, and a watermark. Your screenplay stays portable whether you continue in Prescene or send it somewhere else.

Scene numbers

Scene numbers printed in your source script are respected, gaps and A-numbers included. The editor locks those and only auto-numbers scenes you add.

The assistant while you write

The writing assistant is the optional AI layer inside the free editor. Ask about plot, structure, themes, character motivations, continuity, or selected text. Use it to pressure-test an idea, recover context, explore a scene direction, or request a rewrite. It works from the draft you are writing and the freshest available scene and character intelligence. A paid plan is required to switch it on.

With the assistant on, Prescene refreshes scene and character intelligence after you leave a scene or pause. Typing is never blocked. Rewrites arrive as coherent, reviewable proposals that preserve screenplay structure. Accept or reject individual changes or the full proposal; a checkpoint saves before accepted changes apply. With the assistant off, there is no background analysis, no suggestions, and no AI usage. Writing and autosave continue either way.

Saving a draft back to your Library

When a revision is ready, add it to your Library: Prescene creates a new analyzed version from the draft. The draft stays in Editor. Adding an unchanged draft is blocked, so you cannot spend on a no-op. For an episode, add the new version to its series without starting Coverage. Open the series in Coverage afterward to run or update the report separately.