Format text into industry-standard screenplay format with scene headings, action, and dialogue.
A page of screenplay is a layout problem: scene headings in caps, action as plain prose, character names standing alone, dialogue indented beneath them, set in Courier 12pt so that one page roughly equals one minute of screen time. This tool takes the text you paste and applies that layout, sorting your content into scene headings, action, and dialogue. It changes presentation, not content: no scene is invented, no line rewritten. What surprises most users is that the input must already follow screenplay conventions - the formatter places what you wrote, it does not guess what you meant. Everything runs in the browser; nothing is uploaded.
The formatter reads the pasted text and assigns each line to one of three elements: scene heading, action, or dialogue. Screenplay conventions are the signal: sluglines name a location and time of day, a speaker's name precedes the lines they say, everything else reads as action. Input that follows those conventions maps cleanly; blended input (a name inside a sentence, a slugline missing its location) is where misplacement shows up.
Industry-standard screenplay layout is a strict arrangement: scene headings in caps, action lines at full width, character names centered in caps, dialogue as an indented block beneath the speaker, set in Courier 12pt. That arrangement is what makes the one-page-per-minute estimate work. The tool applies it to your classified elements; it does not add, cut, or reorder content, and it cannot repair scenes that read badly.
Most likely the input did not signal who speaks. In screenplay format a character's name stands alone, in caps, on the line above the dialogue. If the name is buried in the sentence, the formatter cannot reliably separate speaker from action, and the line is placed with the wrong element. Check the formatter's guidance for how it expects a speaker to be marked, adjust the source, and format again.
No. It reformats text you supply into standard screenplay layout; it does not generate scenes, dialogue, or plot, and it cannot fix story problems. If you want to write directly in formatted pages, a document that starts blank and applies the layout as you type serves that workflow better than a formatter that transforms existing text.
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