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Writing a screenplay with Fountain

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Writing a screenplay with Fountain

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- [Instructor] In this final stop on our tour through version control workflows, we're going to look at screenplays. The main app for writing and sharing screenplays is called Final Draft and it happens to use a text based XML file format. In addition there's a markdown based plain text format called Fountain and other activity in the screenwriting space. I'm not a screenwriter, as we'll see, but I gather that having alternatives to Final Draft is a welcome development among certain screenwriters. In any case, let's dive in. I have this little screenplay, a very short one scene screenplay open in Final Draft. It's in the .FDX format. I have the same screenplay written in Fountain open in Visual Studio code. You can see because it's named .fountain. I've installed the Better Fountain extension available in the Visual Studio code marketplace to give me syntax highlighting and some other features. It adds a little button…

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