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From screenplay to schedule, the handover needs care. Understand what

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scheduling data can carry between tools. The extension stands for

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“Scheduling Exchange”, an exchange format that Final Draft and Movie

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Magic share. In it, per scene, are the number, the

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heading, the page on which it starts, its length in

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eighths of a page and the production elements with category.

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The screenplay text itself is not included; FDX is for

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that. Production, then As Scheduling File (dot S E X)

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writes the file for Movie Magic Scheduling and similar programs.

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Production, then For Gorilla (dot S E X) adapts headings

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and order the way Gorilla expects them and encloses the

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original heading as a comment; Federio Dramatize points out beforehand

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that Gorilla can misread times of day and sort unnumbered

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scenes to the front. After the import, check numbers, pages

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and eighths in the target program. When the production has

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added elements in its program, the dot S E X

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file comes back. Open the matching screenplay and choose Production,

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then Import Scheduling Data from dot S E X. Federio

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Dramatize matches every scene of the file to a scene

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in the screenplay by number and heading, shows how many

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it could match, and asks whether the elements should be

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taken over. Try these tools on a copy of your

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

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guide whenever you need the details.