Scripts overview

Scripts let you write, review, and sign off the script for a video inside the same project as its storyboard, so the writing stage and the boarding stage stop living in different tools.

What a script is

A script is a rich-text document that lives inside a project, alongside your storyboards. There is no separate Scripts area in the sidebar: open a project and you will see a Scripts section directly below Storyboards on the project dashboard.

Each script can hold several versions, carries comment threads that are anchored to specific lines of text, and can be shared with clients through a review link. When the words are approved, you can turn the script into a storyboard in the same project.

Creating a script

There are three ways to start a script:

• Click the New Script tile in the Scripts section of a project dashboard.
• Open the project's New menu (top right of the dashboard) and choose Create script.
• Choose to start with a script when you sign up and go through onboarding.

New scripts start blank. Once the document opens, you will see three shortcuts to get going: a Blank script, a ready-made Two-column AV script structure, or Write with Boords Agent to draft from a brief. See Writing and formatting for the editor itself.

The dashboard card

Each script appears as a card in the Scripts section of its project. The card shows the script name, a status dropdown, the number of comments, and a preview of the document. Cards work in the normal grid view and in kanban view, and you can drag a script card between status columns in kanban to change its status.

Statuses

Scripts use the same status pills as storyboards: Draft, In Progress, Needs Review, Changes Required, and Approved. Status is set per version, so an approved first draft stays approved when you open a second round. You can change status from the dashboard card, from the pill next to the script title in the editor, or by dragging the card in kanban view.

Duplicate, move, and archive

Open the actions menu on a script card (or the ⋮ menu in the editor header) to duplicate, move, or archive it.

• Duplicate copies only the current version into a new, independent script. The copy does not carry the other versions with it.
• Move sends the whole script, with all of its versions, to another project.
• Archive removes the script and its entire version history from the project and frees up one of your active script slots. Archived scripts can be restored from the team Archive.

Archiving a project also archives the scripts inside it. Restoring the project brings them back.

Active script limits

Free and Trial teams can keep 3 active scripts at a time. Paid plans include unlimited active scripts. Only active scripts count towards the limit: versions belong to their script rather than counting separately, and archived scripts do not count at all.

When you reach the limit, creating a new script shows an upgrade prompt. To free a slot without upgrading, archive or delete a script you no longer need.

Scripts are included on every Boords plan. See pricing for what each plan covers, including the active script limit and the paid features mentioned in these docs.

What Scripts is not

Scripts is not screenplay software. There are no sluglines, no Final Draft or Fountain import or export, and no screenplay page formatting. It is built for the scripts video teams actually write: commercials, brand films, explainers, social cutdowns, treatments, and two-column AV scripts. If you write feature screenplays, a dedicated screenwriting tool will serve you better.

Where to next

• Writing and formatting: the editor, the AV block, voiceover timing, real-time co-editing, and drafting with the Script Agent.
• Review and sign-off: review links, guest comments, passphrase protection, and the approval trail.
• Versions and exports: review rounds as versions, plus PDF, Word, Markdown, and plain text exports.
• Turning a script into a storyboard: the one-click conversion from approved script to editable frames.