Markdown (.md) → Fountain (.fountain)
Pro Rescuing a script out of Markdown (.md, .markdown) is the Pro part — from there it converts to Fountain (.fountain, .spmd) and every other format on the site. The button below opens the converter with the output format already selected, and the server checks your plan when the file is dropped in.
Run this conversion
Convert Markdown (.md) → Fountain (.fountain)
Opens the homepage converter with Fountain already selected as the output — drop your file, press Convert Script.
What survives this conversion
- Basic screenplay structure: scenes, action, dialogue and transitions.
What can be lost
- no revision colors or production metadata (those live in FDX)
- plain text means layout is conventional, not absolute
Every conversion includes an honest report listing anything that could not translate — you see it before downloading.
How this pair works
Your Markdown file is parsed into a canonical screenplay model (by verified content, not just the file extension), then rendered as Fountain. Fountain background: Created in 2012 by John August, Nima Yousefi and Stu Maschwitz — two independent plain-text screenplay syntaxes (Scrippets and SPMD) merged into one — so screenwriters could write in any text editor and move between tools without lock-in.