cinemasetfreeYour first project
Create a project, then import a screenplay. The import is the fastest way to a populated workspace: one file gives you scenes, characters, locations and props, already linked to each other.
From nothing to a populated project
Create the project
From Dashboard → Projects, press New Project and give it a title. That’s the only required field; everything else can be filled in later or left alone.
Import the screenplay
Open the Scripts tab and press Import Script. Fountain, Final Draft
.fdx, PDF and plain text all work. You’ll get a review panel before anything is written.Review what it found
The panel lists the scenes, characters, locations and props it detected, each on its own tab with a count. Untick anything wrong, which is only cheap to do here, then confirm.
Look at what appeared
Scenes, Characters, Locations and Props are now populated and cross-linked: each scene knows who’s in it, where it happens, and which props it needs.
No screenplay yet? Every one of those tabs has a manual + Add button, and CinemaWriter will write you one inside the app. The import is a shortcut, not a requirement.
What is and isn’t shared
Projects are sealed off from one another. A character named JOHN in one film has nothing to do with a JOHN in another, and there is no cross-project search. The two things that are account-level rather than project-level are your AI model preferences and your editor keymap, both covered in Settings.
Deleting is almost always a soft delete. Rows get a deletion timestamp and vanish from the list, and every list tab has a Show deleted toggle that brings them back into view with a Restore button. The exception is deleting a whole project, which is covered in Data & Export.