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A strong scene needs a place in the story. Find,

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organise and number your scenes without losing the thread. Click

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“Scenes” in the sidebar. Every scene appears as a card

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with its heading, a number and a few key figures:

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interior or exterior, time of day, number of characters, number

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of dialogues and a short excerpt from the action. A

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click on a card jumps to the scene in the

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text. The icon with the sliders above the list opens

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“Adjust Display”. There you switch the key figures on or

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off individually: location, time of day, characters, dialogues, excerpt and

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status. If you only want to see headings, switch everything

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off. Command or Control plus G or the pin button

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in the toolbar opens a small window in which you

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type a scene number or choose a scene from the

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list. Enter jumps there. In long screenplays this is faster

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than scrolling. Three commands in the Screenplay menu act on

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the scene the cursor is in. “Move Current Scene” asks

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for the new position and moves the whole scene there,

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with everything that belongs to it: text, notes, highlights, status.

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“Duplicate Current Scene” puts a copy directly after the original,

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handy for variants. During development a screenplay needs no scene

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numbers; Federio Dramatize simply counts the scenes in the navigator.

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Once a screenplay goes into production, the numbers become fixed:

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every department refers to “scene 12”, even if scenes are

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inserted later. Screenplay, then Number Scenes assigns consecutive numbers and

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prints them next to the headings. The Scene Navigator combines

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text, scene type, character, act or storyline, exact production status

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and color. The result counter immediately shows how many scenes

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match. Search Commands for “Continuity Check” to find characters without

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an earlier introduction, similar character or location spellings, missing times

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of day and unresolved Script Notes. Each result links to

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its screenplay location. Try these tools on a copy of

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your screenplay. Keep what helps your writing, and return to

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the guide whenever you need the details.