SceneCraft
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Story to Screenplay

Turn your story into a finished screenplay

Paste a raw idea, outline, short story, or novel chapter — SceneCraft structures it into a properly formatted, production-ready screenplay you can refine line by line.

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  • From prose to format
  • 100+ languages
  • Export to FDX & Fountain

SceneCraft turns a raw story — an idea, outline, short story, or novel chapter — into a properly formatted, production-ready screenplay. It breaks your narrative into real scenes, applies industry-standard formatting automatically, and lets you edit or regenerate any element, all inside one studio where you can also analyze and storyboard the result.

What you get

From shapeless prose to a script that reads like the real thing

SceneCraft doesn't just insert line breaks — it adapts your story into scenes, dialogue, and action that follow professional screenplay convention.

Start from anything

An idea, a logline, an outline, a short story, or a novel chapter — paste raw prose and SceneCraft works out the scenes for you.

Industry-standard format

Sluglines, action, character cues, dialogue, parentheticals, and transitions — all formatted to spec, automatically, as the script is built.

Real scene structure

Your story is broken into proper scenes and acts with cause-and-effect flow — not a wall of text with line breaks.

Keep your voice

Every element stays yours to control. Edit any line by hand, or ask AI to regenerate just that beat — nothing is locked.

Write in 100+ languages

Adapt your story into a screenplay in your own language, with localized AI writing from the first line.

Export production-ready

When the draft is right, export to PDF, Final Draft (FDX), or Fountain — ready for collaborators, contests, or a production binder.

How it works

Story in, screenplay out — in three steps

  1. 1

    Paste your story

    Drop in your idea, outline, short story, or a chapter of prose. The more you give SceneCraft, the closer the first draft lands.

  2. 2

    AI structures the screenplay

    SceneCraft identifies scenes, sets headings, and rewrites your narrative into formatted screenplay action and dialogue — production-ready, not a rough sketch.

  3. 3

    Refine and export

    Polish or regenerate any scene or element, run script coverage to pressure-test it, then export to FDX or Fountain.

Why SceneCraft

The conversion is just the beginning

Most converters hand you a formatted file and stop. SceneCraft keeps going — analyze the draft, rewrite weak scenes, and turn the script into a storyboard, all in the same place.

AI Script Generator

Generate a full screenplay from an idea when you're starting from a blank page.

AI Script Coverage

Pressure-test your converted draft with structured, scene-by-scene notes.

Script to Storyboard

Turn the finished screenplay into visual storyboard frames.

FAQ

Story to screenplay, answered

Can SceneCraft turn a novel into a screenplay?
Yes. Paste a chapter or a summarized section of your novel and SceneCraft adapts the prose into formatted screenplay scenes — converting internal narration into visual action and dialogue. Because screenplays are far more compressed than novels, you'll work chapter by chapter and shape what survives the adaptation, with full control over every scene.
What can I paste in as the source story?
Anything from a one-line idea to a full outline, a short story, or novel prose. SceneCraft is designed to take unstructured raw input and produce a structured, industry-formatted screenplay — you don't need to pre-format it.
Will the screenplay keep my story's voice and tone?
Yes. SceneCraft adapts your own material rather than inventing a new story, and every element remains editable. You can rewrite any line by hand or regenerate a specific beat until the voice matches what you intended.
Is the output in correct screenplay format?
Yes. The output follows industry-standard screenplay formatting — scene headings, action, character names, dialogue, parentheticals, and transitions — and exports cleanly to PDF, Final Draft (FDX), and Fountain.
Can I keep editing after the conversion?
Absolutely. The converted screenplay opens in the full SceneCraft editor, where you can write, restructure on the beat board, generate new scenes, run coverage, and even build a storyboard from the result.

Turn your story into a screenplay today

Start free, paste your story, and watch it become a formatted screenplay in minutes.

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