cinemasetfreeWriting and formatting
Type. The editor works out whether a line is a scene heading, action, a character cue, dialogue or a parenthetical from what you write and where you are. Tab and Enter move between elements the way screenwriters expect.
The editor works out the element
Screenplay format is rigid and boring, which makes it exactly the thing software should handle. Type INT. at the start of a line and you’re in a scene heading. Press Enter and you’re in action. Type a name in caps and you’re in a character cue, with dialogue underneath.
The format bar is there for the times the guess is wrong or you want to force an element: a shot, a transition, a lyric. It shows what the current line is, and changes it.
Real pagination, live
Pages break where they will actually break, as you type, with proper handling for the things that make screenplay pagination hard. A character cue cannot be orphaned at the foot of a page, and dialogue split across a break needs its (MORE) and (CONT’D).
This matters because page count is a production number. A schedule built on page eighths is only as good as the pagination underneath it.
Dual-column dialogue
Simultaneous dialogue, two characters talking over each other, sets in two columns. The editor handles it as a real element rather than a table you fight with. It paginates correctly, and it survives export.
Autosave runs continuously; there is no save button and no dialog asking whether you meant it. Close the tab mid-sentence and the sentence is there when you come back.