Copying and Pasting Storyboard Text Without Losing the Character, Scene and Prop Links

Quick answer: Inside the editor, copying keeps the links: copy text from a segment’s storyboard or from the edit box, paste it into an edit box, and the coloured @ pills come back with it. Text pasted from somewhere else — a document, a chat, a note — arrives as plain words. When you save, names that can be matched are linked again, and a message says Names in the text were linked to their characters, scenes and items. If that message does not appear, or a name still shows as plain text, insert it with @ yourself.

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Copy one shot from segment 1, paste it into segment 2 in edit mode, and look: the names arrive as pills.

Inside the editor: pills come back

Select text in a segment’s storyboard or in the edit box and copy it. Paste it into any segment’s edit box in the same project and the character, scene and prop pills come back, along with shot markers and voice tags. This is the safe way to move a shot from one segment to another, or to duplicate a line of dialogue.

A storyboard segment: location, time and weather fields, then numbered shots with durations, asset chips and spoken lines — Copy from the storyboard and paste into the edit box: the coloured pills come back with the text.

Text from outside the editor

Copy the storyboard into a document, rewrite it there, and paste it back: the pills are gone and the names are plain words. Save anyway. If the editor can match names to entries in the project, it links them again and shows the message about linked names. Read the shots after saving: pills mean linked, plain words mean not. Rewritten sentences are the ones most likely to stay plain; link those names with @.

How to check a segment

Open it with Edit: every character on screen in a shot should be a pill.
An amber note above the storyboard after saving can list names written without @.
Before generating, the editor asks if some shots have no linked characters.

The amber notes · Shots with no linked characters.

Linking a name by hand

Delete the plain name, type @ in its place, and pick the entry from the menu. Scenes go on the Location line, props on the Props line and in the shot where they are handled. The @ menu.

Copying out

Text copied out of the editor into a document is readable plain text, which is handy for review or for sharing a storyboard with someone. Keep a copy of a segment before big edits; the editor also keeps a text history you can restore. Text history.

You paste	Into	Links
Text copied in the editor	An edit box in the same project	Come back as pills
Text from a document, unchanged	An edit box	Usually linked again on save; check the message
Text you rewrote outside	An edit box	May stay plain; link with @

FAQ

Why did my pasted names turn into plain text?

The text came from outside the editor. Save, then look for the linked-names message; link any plain names with @.

Can I copy shots between projects?

The text pastes, but pills only link to entries that exist in the project you paste into.

Does linking names cost anything?

No. Editing and saving text is free.

I pasted a whole segment and the video had no faces. What happened?

The names were plain text, so no sheets were used. Link them with @ and regenerate the segment.

Copy inside the editor

Move shots with copy and paste in the edit box, and the links come with them.

Open the editor

Updated October 2, 2026