Extract Scenes From a Screenplay

Pull one scene out of a finished draft

An audition side, a director’s sample, a rewrite pass on a single location, a schedule breakdown — they all need the same thing: part of the script, not all of it. This tool splits the draft you paste on its scene headings, then rebuilds only the scenes you tick as clean Fountain, Final Draft XML, or clipboard text you can drop into an email.

How to extract a scene

1. Choose a .fountain, .txt, .fdx or text-based PDF, or paste Fountain or Final Draft XML into the box.
2. Every slugline becomes a numbered row with its location, speaking characters and word count. Filter by slugline keyword, by character, or by location.
3. Tick the scenes you want. The counters show the page estimate and word count for the current selection, priced at the standard 190 words per page.
4. Download Fountain, download FDX, or copy the text straight into an email or an audition sides template.

What the export keeps

• The title page fields from the source file, so an extract still identifies which draft it came from.
• Action, character cues, parentheticals and dialogue exactly as parsed, in script order rather than the order you ticked them.
• A page break before every scene after the first, so each extracted scene can start on its own page the way printed sides do.

Scenes split on scene headings only, so a draft with no INT./EXT. sluglines has nothing to extract — send it through the screenplay formatter first. An FDX export renumbers the extracted scenes from 1 because the extract is a new document, not a revision of the original. For structure instead of selected scenes, use the index card board; for who speaks and how much, the character report. The extraction itself runs in your browser; the file you choose is also stored by Zen Writer, the same way the other script tools here store an upload.

Frequently asked questions