Script blocks: Action, Dialogue, Caption, Note and Lyric

The five types

• Action: what happens. The default for anything you type.
• Dialogue: a speaker and their line. The speaker is an element (@mention), so it carries a picture and stays consistent; an extension dropdown adds (V.O.), (O.S.) or (CONT'D).
• Caption: on-screen text such as a title card, super or subtitle.
• Note: a production note, shown on amber. Notes are not read aloud by voice-over and are kept out of the screenplay body.
• Lyric: a sung line with no particular singer. A character who sings is a Dialogue row marked as lyric.

Making and changing blocks

• Enter starts a new Action block. Type / on an empty line to choose Dialogue, Caption, Note or Lyric from the menu.
• Type a name in capitals (or NAME:) on its own line and it becomes a Dialogue row; Tab key from an action line does the same. If you paste text with names written as plain lines, the view offers Speaker names written as text found.
• The grab handle on the left of any block opens Turn into (Action, Dialogue, Caption, Note, Lyric), Color, Duplicate and Delete; drag it to reorder, or use ⌘ Shift ↑/↓.

Two people speaking at once

On a dialogue row, the / menu offers Speak together: the next dialogue row sits side by side with it (dual dialogue in Final Draft). Unpair splits them; the pair moves as one when you drag.