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#CONVERT FINAL DRAFT TO CELTX MAC#
I’m using TextEdit on the MAC in this case. If you use *.txt format here your script will look like this:ģ. Automatically Add Extra Lines At Scene BreaksĪlright. Now, what we need to do is the following. Since every element has it’s extra line without any double line spacing in between scenes Final Draft would not recognize single scenes. What we need to do is get extra lines in between scenes to help Final Draft figure out where one scene ends and the other begins.
It would be tedious work to do that manually so we’ll use the “Find and Replace” function. Hit Cmd-F to open the “Find” bar up top and activate the “Replace” checkbox to reveal the “Replace” box underneath. What that will do is look for all our external scenes.
We also need to tell TextEdit that we want a line return before every external scene. The way we’re going to do that is we paste a “line return”-character in the “Replace” box IN FRONT of the “EXT.”.
TextEdit doesn’t allow us to see the “invisible” text return characters but they’re there nonetheless.Ĭopy one line return character by click-dragging with your mouse from the beginning of the scene heading line to the end of the line above. Alternatively you can move your cursor to the front of the scene heading line and then press the left arrow key while holding shift. What that does is it marks only the line return character without any text. Next, copy that marked line return character (Cmd-C), and paste it in the “Replace” box above IN FRONT OF the “Ext.”.ĬAUTION: Now, you might end up with what looks like an empty “Replace” box all of a sudden. That’ sonly because the line return character takes up so much space in that box.
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