CONTOUR Converter

Extract text from Screenplay files (CONTOUR)


Drop or upload your .CONTOUR file
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How to extract text from your CONTOUR file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your CONTOUR file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert CONTOUR to another file type

To convert CONTOUR Screenplays to another format, you need Contour or other Text software.

Convert a file to CONTOUR

To convert other file formats to the "Screenplay Outline File" file type, you need software like Contour or a similar tool.


About CONTOUR files

The .contour file extension is a proprietary screenplay outlining and story development format created by Mariner Software for their Contour application. Writers use this format to plot out character arcs and script beats based on a highly specific story structure. The primary disadvantage of the .contour format is severe vendor lock-in. It is a closed, proprietary file type that requires a paid license for the Contour software to open or edit natively. You cannot natively import a .contour file into industry-standard screenwriting software like Final Draft or standard word processors like Microsoft Word. This makes sharing outlines with producers, agents, or co-writers extremely difficult unless they also own the exact same software. For professional collaboration, you must convert .contour files to universally readable formats. PDF is the best target for fixed layout viewing, while TXT or RTF allows text editing in other software. If you are moving to full script production, converting the outline data to FDX (Final Draft) is ideal, though structural metadata may be lost. Because .contour is a heavily restricted and closed format, standard online converters usually fail to process it. Often only the original software can properly read or export the structured data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your CONTOUR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted DEM and RASTER files.


FAQ

If you want to convert CONTOUR file to DEM, RASTER, TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW, PART, DOWNLOAD or CRDOWNLOAD, you can use Contour or similar software from the "Screenplay Story Outlining" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DEVICE, CACHE, SOCK, SYMLINK, PID, MOUNT, FIFO, LOG, PIPE, TMP, JUNCTION or TEMP files to CONTOUR, try Contour or another comparable tool in the "Screenplay Story Outlining" category.



The CONTOUR Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our CONTOUR converter.