Quick update: We renamed “Cue Sheet” to “Pinboard Cue Sheet” in hopes of preventing further confusion.    

Hi DB, just keep in mind that even though you’ve restricted a Pin (i.e., Cue) to a single position, another pin on the same module could be used anywhere. In other words, you won’t have wires from different positions that are 300ft apart that need to be plugged into the same pin. But you may have wires from different positions 300ft apart need to be plugged into different pins on the same module. If your shoot site is very compact, this may not be a concern. But if you’re shoot site is larger than the length of your e-match wires, then you may end up in a situation where wires don’t reach the modules they need to be plugged into. I totally get that you’re limited by the number of modules that you own, I just don’t want you to fall into a situation where your show can’t physically be set up.   To learn more about sharing modules across multiple positions, check out this video: https://finale3d.com/video/how-to-share-modules-between-positions/

Hi Brett,   Thanks for the additional info, I was able to reproduce both bugs. The key to reproducing the height issue was knowing that you were creating a cake using effects that had been customized in the effect editor. The bug seems to only apply to custom effects, not VDL effects. For the missing whistle sound bug, the VDL you provided was just what I needed.     Dirk Enders – PyroOffice is absolutely right, you can use the effect editor to add missing whistle sounds. Although, that shouldn’t be necessary, the fact that the sound is missing by default is definitely a bug.

Hi Barehm,   for the first VDL you can try the following effect editor setting:   Hope this helps   Dirk

The closest VDL effect is “Red Strobing Willow”.

I can’t figure out the right VDL to replicate this visual. I’ve seen it in a few fireworks. It looks a bit like the red strobing sparks effect Drew mentioned to me was recently added in another post.   If you watch closely in this video, it’s the second (and alternating) shot in the premium color – green video in the link below      

I’ve got a pretty easy one – can you add the RGB value for Teal to VDL?  I’m shocked how many cannister shells I’m loading into my inventory that use that description.

Regarding the whistles issue, here’s one example:   VDL = 30mm Rising Whirls & Whistles Tail To Blue Peony  [This is silent] VDL = 30mm Rising Whirls & Whistles Tail [Works as expected]   In the first VDL, the effect editor, the star phase of “rising whirls whistles” does not have a sound element indicating whistling. I could be running into a limitation of the DOM that wouldn’t allow the effect to have only whistling on the rise and stop on the break? I’ve found a fair amount of cakes that have a shot like this, so maybe just a nice enhancement?

That was it.   I’m using the Hobbyist version and once I added the pin restriction by position, the labels made more sense. I initially used the module restriction by position, but I needed 20 modules addressing the show that way vs the 16 I needed addressing the show using pin restriction by position (I only have 16 modules). Without either restriction (my original post), I needed 12 modules and I thought I was good until I looked at the labels.   Thanks for the assist!  

Sounds good.   Let me focus on the first one to start (heights that don’t make sense to me). I built ~5 cakes where the heights are all <40m, but the combined cake is 110m. Looking back at the cakes I created today, they’re all related to my poor attempts at trying to recreate very slow flying fish effects. From your other video, I saw Meteor had a better slow movement and hence started doing a path of using the effects editor, which I’ve found to be super powerful.   The easiest way to reproduce this right now is to 1) Build a cake with the VDL below 2) Break apart the cake to see that in fact all 9 shots are 33.5m 3) select them all to make the cake again 4) when the window first opens, looks ok, but when you tab off the VDL field, it sets the height wrong.   If you’re interested in the cake, I’m just trying to do something simple like this:   VDL to Copy:   10mm 110.0m 12.00s 9 Shot Cake (a) {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} + (b) {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}, 1 Row (ababababa/STR)