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When I send a Fountain or FDX screenplay into a breakdown/scheduling tool, what comes across (scene headings, characters, tagged elements, revisions, scene numbers) and what must be exported another way?

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A plain .fdx import into Movie Magic Scheduling brings only sluglines and speaking characters; breakdown tags need a Final Draft Scheduling Export (.sex). Fountain offers scene numbers, notes, sections and synopses but no tag or revision markup, so a Fountain-only project has no standard carrier for breakdown tags. Revision-mark handling on import is not documented in the pages read. Curator qualifications: Docs/code read 2026-10-22; no script imported, no tool run. Final Draft version gates (11-13; older cannot export) and locked-pages pages (S7, S9, S10) from producer reading. Limitations: Docs/code read 2026-10-22; no script imported, no tool run. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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    {
      "url": "https://fountain.io/syntax",
      "note": "Movie Magic Scheduling docs: Importing Breakdown Sheets, Script File (bytes equal pin); Final Draft KB: tagged FD script into MMS (IA id_ 20250811203549; bytes differ from pin); fountain.io/syntax (live)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250617225204id_/https://kb.finaldraft.com/hc/en-us/articles/15575278457492-I-want-to-number-other-elements-such-as-shots-characters-or-dialogue",
      "note": "Movie Magic Scheduling docs: Importing Breakdown Sheets, Script File (bytes equal pin); Final Draft KB: tagged FD script into MMS (IA id_ 20250811203549; bytes differ from pin); fountain.io/syntax (live)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://mms-docs.ep.com/Breakdown/ImportingBreakdownSheets.html",
      "note": "Movie Magic Scheduling docs: Importing Breakdown Sheets, Script File (bytes equal pin); Final Draft KB: tagged FD script into MMS (IA id_ 20250811203549; bytes differ from pin); fountain.io/syntax (live)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250811203549id_/https://kb.finaldraft.com/hc/en-us/articles/15574927910036-How-do-I-get-my-tagged-FD-script-into-Movie-Magic-Scheduling",
      "note": "Movie Magic Scheduling docs: Importing Breakdown Sheets, Script File (bytes equal pin); Final Draft KB: tagged FD script into MMS (IA id_ 20250811203549; bytes differ from pin); fountain.io/syntax (live)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250803050108id_/https://kb.finaldraft.com/hc/en-us/articles/15575252743316-Can-Final-Draft-export-to-Movie-Magic-Scheduling-and-Budgeting",
      "note": "Movie Magic Scheduling docs: Importing Breakdown Sheets, Script File (bytes equal pin); Final Draft KB: tagged FD script into MMS (IA id_ 20250811203549; bytes differ from pin); fountain.io/syntax (live)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://fountain.io/_downloads/Brick-&-Steel.fdx",
      "note": "Movie Magic Scheduling docs: Importing Breakdown Sheets, Script File (bytes equal pin); Final Draft KB: tagged FD script into MMS (IA id_ 20250811203549; bytes differ from pin); fountain.io/syntax (live)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250327035953id_/https://kb.finaldraft.com/hc/en-us/articles/15575262637204-What-are-locked-pages",
      "note": "Movie Magic Scheduling docs: Importing Breakdown Sheets, Script File (bytes equal pin); Final Draft KB: tagged FD script into MMS (IA id_ 20250811203549; bytes differ from pin); fountain.io/syntax (live)"
    },
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      "url": "https://fountain.io/syntax/",
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Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] A plain .fdx import into Movie Magic Scheduling brings only sluglines and speaking characters; breakdown tags need a Final Draft Scheduling Export (.sex). Fountain offers scene numbers, notes, sections and synopses but no tag or revision markup, so a Fountain-only project has no standard carrier for breakdown tags. Revision-mark handling on import is not documented in the pages read. · locator: Movie Magic Scheduling docs: Importing Breakdown Sheets, Script File (bytes equal pin); Final Draft KB: tagged FD script into MMS (IA id_ 20250811203549; bytes differ from pin); fountain.io/syntax (live) source

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documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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