Final Draft as a data-source.

[Sam Richards]

I was talking to somebody who had implemented an auto-populate feature for the location field (and possibly a couple of others) from an external database, which I think might have been from Final-Draft.

Is this something that anybody has implemented? Or thought about before?

It seems doable to get the location and principal actors from the final-draft xml, but I'm not sure what else. Or is it more common for somebody to first take the data from something like final-draft and then re-work it for other uses (i.e. manually create the scene description, rather than just stick in the dialog).

Sam.

[Jack James]

I've written some stuff in the past that captures data from Final Draft- you can actually get quite a lot of data from the file, as a bear minimum you can get:

• Scenes
  
• Scene numbers
  
• Scene summaries
  
• Characters
  
• Locations
  
• Shots
  
• Script notes
  

IIRC I just wrote a python script to grab each of these.

[Sam Richards]

Thats what I was thinking, I was wondering how often a data-wrangler would have access to the final-draft file? 

Also, were you calling the python script from inside filemaker?

Sam.

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[Jack James]

Unfortunately the wrangler wouldn't normally have access to it, I usually specifically request it when working on-set, but I imagine on larger productions that would be a problem.

Yes I was calling the python from inside Filemaker, which was a real headache and I don't recommend doing it this way unless you have to. I really ought to get around to publishing a white paper on how it's done…

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