Another issue I am having tonight: I am creating effects and they are not saving anywhere in my effects catalog. I have created a new effect and saved it in myeffects and in per-show effects and when I search for it, it is not there. I just downloaded the beta update this morning, and I am wondering if this is an issue with this latest release?  

  When signing in I have an option to check “work offline” but no option to sync with network When I choose Sync with Network from file drop down,  I get a blank box, nothing  happens.   Any ideas or help would be appreciated

  Pyro_37110000 wrote: Hi Drew,   I found this out as well. Many are much more beautiful but many have been reinterpreted by the software and need to be checked. I assume that once you use the effect editor, all changes due to software interpretation are impossible?   Yeah, I now am still having issues getting any go-getter effects to look normal again. This also messed up a lot of the catalog effects, like the Dominator slices with Go-getters.

Hi Drew,   I found this out as well. Many are much more beautiful but many have been reinterpreted by the software and need to be checked.  I assume that once you use the effect editor, all changes due to software interpretation are impossible?

Hello, Hobbyist. Garbage man by day.  Been using CSC for 6 years, thought I would give Finale a try… feeling a bit whelmed.  not over or under just whelmed. very few  of my products are in the effect tabs.  even though I have got all the 76, racoon, and dom.  I use loads of different Manufactures, Winda, Brothers …making the effects takes way more time than just popping over to youtube and looking it up… not sure I will be renewing next year.         youtube.com/vampmadness

  Will wrote: Hello, I’m the engineer working on effect times. Did Drew’s suggestion fix what you didn’t like? If not, could you give a detailed explanation of how you would like it to work?   If you set the timeline “snap-to resolution” with the menu item, “Show > Show settings > Set timeline snap-to resolution” to be the same as the frame rate of the effect time (Show > Show settings > Set effect time format) then the playhead, and the time counter during playback, will generally NOT show the +ms. They will look nice and clean. But if the timeline snap-to resolution is different from the effect time format, the time counter during playback WILL show the +ms.   Will     In the new smpte updates will be included the option to see the scritp column “event time” in frames as well as “effect time”. Will you answered me a few months ago that you were evaluating it, I hope it will be possible and a reality. Great work with these new smpte updates!   Thank you 🙂

Please add a “snap effect to playhead” feature. I know you can insert an effect at the playhead location, but you can’t seem to MOVE an effect already on the timeline to the playhead location. I assumed right away this would just happen by default.

Thank you so much!  I now have everything I need (and learned a bunch regarding the customizations!)    

Hi Pyro_5750000, the default orientation for site layouts is landscape. It sounds like the site layout blueprint in your show may be outdated. Try installing the latest beta release of Finale 3D from finale3d.com/download. Then, open a new/blank show and create a site layout. You don’t need add anything to the show, or edit the layout in any way, just go straight to ‘File > Diagrams > Site layout’. If the diagram is landscape, then the issue is an outdated blueprint in your other show. To update the blueprints, open your show, then go to ‘File > Admin > Update standard blueprints in show’.

When i print a site diagram for a display the resultant pdf file is in portrait format. How do i get the output to be in landscape which is the more natural view for a site diagram and also how it looks in the documentaion online. Also it would be nice if the site diagram could be exported in png or jpg format for use within other documents.