Combining two scripts in Final Draft

xhouseboy · Feb 13, 2007

Anyone any idea on how to take two scripts and run them together in final draft?

For instance, let's say one is ep 1, the other is ep 2; how then can ep two be made to roll on directly after ep 1 so that basically it all becomes the one script?

I've used cut and paste to do this on previous occasions, but I'm thinking there has to be an easier way.

Any advice much appreciated.

icerose · Feb 13, 2007

Sorry, I've never tried. Sometimes I will rework scenes outside of the main document then put them back in, but select all, copy, and paste is about as fast as it gets at least that I know of.

xhouseboy · Feb 13, 2007

icerose said:
Sorry, I've never tried. Sometimes I will rework scenes outside of the main document then put them back in, but select all, copy, and paste is about as fast as it gets at least that I know of.

Thanks Icerose.

My main gripe against copy and paste is that the procedure I use is to scroll and highlight text, then right click - copy - then on to the other doc and paste. But for some reason the program will only permit me to do this one page at a time.

Ragnarok · Feb 13, 2007

I don't think there's another way besides good ol' copy and paste. The body of the script is only part of the data in the fdr format. Each of your file will also have bytes reserved for its own title page, revised versions... So merely appending fdr files would be quite a mess to handle for Final Draft.

If you want to select the whole part, put your cursor at the beginning of the text, press shift then scroll all the way down, click at the end and you should have it all.

dpaterso · Feb 13, 2007

Sorry, I can't seem to duplicate your problem, or maybe I don't quite understand it... I opened FD7 (the demo, admittedly) and copy/pasted a script (I'm a MM2000 user), it imported into FD7 A-OK to give me my "ep1" script. I scrolled to the bottom and inserted a blank line just to define the cursor position, then copy/pasted a second script right after the first, giving me one great big script -- not just one extra page. Make sense?

-Derek

icerose · Feb 13, 2007

Do Edit, Select All, and it will do it all for you.

Or the hot key is Ctrl + A

xhouseboy · Feb 13, 2007

Thanks Rgarnok, DP, and Icerose.

I'm about to try all these suggestions.

I was doing what you're doing DP, but the program's going wonky on me.

But I'll keep my fingers crossed for the next time.

ETA: managed it. Saved both docs into text with layout in Notepad, then opened a new FD doc and imported it. A little bit of format needs tweaking, but no big deal.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

icerose · Feb 13, 2007

I'm glad you figured out how to do it. I hope you get your program sorted out. Perhaps you need to uninstall it and reinstall it?

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