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Final Draft — import & export

Final Draft — import & export

Section titled “Final Draft — import & export”

Poneglyph reads and writes Final Draft .fdx screenplay files, mapping screenplay structure to Poneglyph folders and lines.

Export

Section titled “Export”

File → Export → Final Draft lets you turn a Poneglyph table (typically conversations or cinematics) into an .fdx file:

  • Each folder becomes a scene heading.
  • Each line becomes a piece of dialogue or action.
  • Character columns drive who-speaks-what.

Useful when handing the cinematic line set off to a writer for revision, or when generating a recording-ready script for VO.

Import

Section titled “Import”

File → Import → Final Draft brings a screenplay back in:

  1. Drop the .fdx file.
  2. Map characters from the screenplay to your character table.
  3. Map scenes to folders (auto-detected by name; review the preview).
  4. Confirm. Imported lines arrive in the staging area; nothing lands in main until you accept.

Tips

Section titled “Tips”
  • The import preserves the original screenplay text in a column so you can compare against the loc-edit version later.
  • Action lines (vs. dialogue) end up with a different LineType so you can filter them with the query language.