Seems like I found a solution for my question about amplitudes. I bought the songs from Amazon and it seems to work better. Maybe they decrease the quality if you use a converter to download them. When you buy them all is good.

Dirk and Tim, Thank you both for your help.

Hi Sven,   if the volume is also different you  are able to adjust that in Finale ! Make a right click on the music line and clci Set Volumen. Now you can adjust the tracks volume form 1 to 10 where 10 is maximum volume). You can do this also for all songs in the song window for all song.

  Pyro_7100000 wrote: Are all the videos that have just been uploaded to Youtube the winning cakes?   Not quite! The simulations are compilations of the best VDL descriptions submitted by the winning contestants with refinements made by the Finale team. Soon, we will publish a page with a break down of the VDL for each cake. Stay tuned!

  Sven wrote: Tim Jameson wrote: Sven wrote: Hello, again a technical question. In the picture below you can see the waveforms of 2 identical songs. One is downloaded from Amazon on Highest quality and the other from Youtube. As can be seen the peaks from the Youtube downloaded song are alot higher in Finale 3D [purple song] compared to the Amazon Music version. I did all the editing with legally downloaded Amazon songs and noticed it only afterwards. Could this lower intensity waveform be a problem? Thanks I don’t believe this is actually something that is “Finale related” and can’t see where it would affect anything. Did you happen to open both of them in Audacity (or similar audio editing software)? I’m curious if the same thing shows up there or not. My guess is the Youtube song was simply encoded with a higher amplitude than the one downloaded from Amazon. Thanks for the answer. Yes, I opened and compared both waveforms in Audacity and the same problem with the waveforms is present, i.e. the Amazon waveform has a lower amplitude. But if I get your point it doesn’t really matter for the show and I can keep using my Amazon tracks with lower amplitudes? Yes, that’s correct, just carry on with the Amazon tracks.  Good luck with the competition

  Tim Jameson wrote: Sven wrote: Hello, again a technical question. In the picture below you can see the waveforms of 2 identical songs. One is downloaded from Amazon on Highest quality and the other from Youtube. As can be seen the peaks from the Youtube downloaded song are alot higher in Finale 3D [purple song] compared to the Amazon Music version. I did all the editing with legally downloaded Amazon songs and noticed it only afterwards. Could this lower intensity waveform be a problem? Thanks I don’t believe this is actually something that is “Finale related” and can’t see where it would affect anything. Did you happen to open both of them in Audacity (or similar audio editing software)? I’m curious if the same thing shows up there or not. My guess is the Youtube song was simply encoded with a higher amplitude than the one downloaded from Amazon. Thanks for the answer. Yes, I opened and compared both waveforms in Audacity and the same problem with the waveforms is present, i.e. the Amazon waveform has a lower amplitude. But if I get your point it doesn’t really matter for the show and I can keep using my Amazon tracks with lower amplitudes?

  Sven wrote: Hello, again a technical question. In the picture below you can see the waveforms of 2 identical songs. One is downloaded from Amazon on Highest quality and the other from Youtube. As can be seen the peaks from the Youtube downloaded song are alot higher in Finale 3D [purple song] compared to the Amazon Music version. I did all the editing with legally downloaded Amazon songs and noticed it only afterwards. Could this lower intensity waveform be a problem? Thanks I don’t believe this is actually something that is “Finale related” and can’t see where it would affect anything.  Did you happen to open both of them in Audacity (or similar audio editing software)?  I’m curious if the same thing shows up there or not.  My guess is the Youtube song was simply encoded with a higher amplitude than the one downloaded from Amazon.

  Pyro_25580000 wrote: Hello, my question is, can I use copyrighted music downloaded from YouTube for a show in the PyroJam competition? Tanks! Stefan. Hi Stefan, you may use any music you wish to, we will handle the copyright side of things.

Hello, my question is, can I use copyrighted music downloaded from YouTube for a show in the PyroJam competition? Tanks! Stefan.

Hello,   again a technical question. In the picture below you can see the waveforms of 2 identical songs. One is downloaded from Amazon on Highest quality and the other from Youtube. As can be seen the peaks from the Youtube downloaded song are alot higher in Finale 3D [purple song] compared to the Amazon Music version. I did all the editing with legally downloaded Amazon songs and noticed it only afterwards. Could this lower intensity waveform be a problem? Thanks