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Hi Brett,

I’m sorry to hear about the timing issue with your last show. The good news is that there are some simple steps you can take to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

For audio files that do not contain timecode, there are only two ways to move them on the timeline. The first is by turning off the Lock songs in place setting and dragging on…Read More

Hi George,

I just realized that in my test, the position names did not come out unique as they should have. Just like you, I got:

POS-~a

POS-~b

POS-~a     <— Duplicate

POS-~b     <— Duplicate

The correctly truncated and unique position names would be:

POS-~a

POS-~b

POS-~c

POS-~d

I edited my previous post as a corre…Read More

I am getting the same POS-~a, POS-~b, POS-~a, and POS-~b. on Apex.  When I load the show file to Apex it tells me the show is not valid because I have two positions/groups that are the same ( POS-~a and POS-~a) and (POS-~b and POS-~b).  Then all the lines in the show file that have those positions are listed with an error.  Since the show has er…Read More

Hi George,

Having positions with the following names should NOT cause any errors:

POS-13

POS-15

POS-133

POS-153

I just did a quick test and confirmed the Finale 3D truncates position names and makes them unique, as described in the Apex documentation.

I started by creating a simple show with just four positions and four events. For…Read More

It works now 🙂 Thanks!

Hello, great news DrewFinale , AviatorRuss

I got it all sorted out! I would like to say thank you for the responses, they did lead me into the right direction!

My solution, was changing my addressing configuration to just Position Name > Event Time, but because I wanted all of my cakes to be on the same module, that is where I was running…Read More

Thanks Drew this makes prefect sense and just for clarity  The positions were labeled

POS-13

POS-15

added these positions with the Seven characters that caused the issues

POS-133

POS-153

Changed them to this and the issue went away

POS-37

POS-57

I must have forgot I had a six character limit, but now I know why.   Thanks fo…Read More

Hey Barehm, ghosting aside, a shell with colored “bands”, is currently beyond the capability of VDL. The primary limiting factor is that VDL simply doesn’t have the necessary shell break pattern. The closest you can get with VDL at the moment is sweeping ghost using different colored shelf halves. Using quarters is also possible in VDL but the…Read More

Hi Pyro_50000, welcome to the Finale 3D forum!

Here’s the portion of the Apex documentation in the Finale 3D Help Center that explains how position names are handled:

The position names are limited to 6 characters, and must not include space, backslash, double quote, newline, tab, or comma. Finale 3D will automatically truncate positions…Read More

I’m happy to report that we just published a new BETA release of Finale 3D (2025.06.14-7563c981a) that resolves the 3D Google Maps issue. It turned out that Google made a change on their end that required us to do some modifications to Finale 3D.

GNIST

Pyro_340560000

Cody Hanna

Pyro_340560000 wrote:
I have been encountering the same issue with any 3d maps. Black box on the map with both high and low detail 3d. 2d Google maps works. I’ve tried everything within Finale3D to try to correct it. Restarting, new show, reinstalling finale3d and still the same result.

Thanks for the report. We are experiencing the same b…

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I have been encountering the same issue with any 3d maps.  Black box on the map with both high and low detail 3d.  2d Google maps works.  I’ve tried everything within Finale3D to try to correct it.  Restarting, new show, reinstalling finale3d and still the same result.