I know, I know, the U.S. adopted the metric system in the 1970’s.  I’m still a pre-70’er and would like the field (and other measurements) in feet and inches (or yards).   I’ve looked around but find no help button, search bar, etc.  So, I just need someone to tell me how.   Thanks, Rick

I am Rick Moore currently residing in Northeast Tennessee.  I have been using Finale since the mid-1990’s and previously used Personal Composer before that.  Oh, that’s right, this is the Finale3D forum. My life has been in music and event production mostly for / with churches in Michigan, California, Wisconsin, Missouri, Virginia, and Tennessee.  I have hired other companies for the pyro portion of our events, e.g.- Zambelli, San Diego Fireworks, and Garden State Fireworks.  But, now it’s my turn to do the firing myself and I’m lovin’ it. I bought my first electronic firing equipment earlier this year and blew my first show on July 4th (2023) . . . at church!   They loved it. I’m still using Finale (music notation software) regularly.  So, now I have / use TWO Finale’s in the house!  They are BOTH very complicated software (which also means they’re quite flexible [preferred]).  So, the learning is killin’ me right now!  Hope to get a lot of help right here! My organization name is Axehead Event Productions, LLC.

Hello Using Finale 3D for a long time can cause eye strain. Can I change the Scripts and Effects window to dark mode?

It may be worth making another topic to state this on, but this is a common thing I’ve seen finale users talk about. I’m pretty sure we narrowed it down to the creation of the audio file itself in a daw. If the timeline goes from empty space into your track, you will likely experience the ‘pop’ when the audio starts in Finale. I could give the technical, audio reason for anyone interested, but I won’t bore the rest. The solution, if you want empty space at the beginning of your track is to use the ‘insert silence’ feature of your daw and blend that into the start of your track.

Thanks for the post. We understand the importance of the translations and we have reached out to the Chinese translator a few times. I reached out again yesterday and he replied that he will work on updating the translation next month. If he is still not able to do the translation at that time, we will look at other options.

When will the Chinese translation be updated, I’ve been waiting for two years

Here are some suggestions that I’ve come across while working in Finale (Apologies if some have already been named):   – Utilization of “Fullscreen” with Lite so the script bar is removed. – I’m sure this verbiage will become utilized, but when a shell has “Falling Leaves” in it, make the break either silent or quiet… secondary, add the term “Quiet” or “Silent” to be utilized with Slightly and Very as well as by itself to lessen the noise of a shell. – Utilize the term “Loud” so you can increase the noise of Salutes without using the effect editor. Slightly and Very would modify this term. – Ability to “randomize” shell/product launches in Lite; if already a premium feature, that’s fine; I do have a workaround. – Have the music bar static from the scripting bar; when you start scripting a lot of cues, the scripting bar gets extremely messy and gets hard to see where the “peaks” of audio are to align your cues with.   I believe this is everything I can think of that hasn’t already been mentioned either directly to Drew or via another post…

Hi Curtis, I think you’ve probably just stumbled on a kind of crackle that isn’t represented in VDL. There are so many variations of crackle. We added several common kinds to VDL this year but there are certainly more. For now, the best approach is probably to use the closest kind of crackle that VDL supports and then tweak using the effect editor.

It may just be me late at night, but I’m trying to figure out how to add a pearl that will emit a very sparse delayed crackle along with the other color pearls that are in there… I’ve got 0.25″ 40.00s 0.20 PFT 280 Shot Red Green Yellow Candle but it also contains soft almost whisper like crackle pearls in the candle as well.