All of them that I want to try. But I tried online and I already finished some 4 steps. Steps 5 and 6 that I am really don't know. It said:   How many stars do you want?(4in/100mm normal = 120, 4in/100mm dense = 240, 5in/125mm normal = 140, 5in/125mm dense = 280, 6in/150mm normal = 160, 6in/150mm dense = 320), 7in/175mm normal = 180, 7in/175mm dense = 360:   How can I answer this question?

We did not have a tablet/laptop controlling the show. We just used the 18R2 controller. We were not using the audio box. Deleting the cues step also deleted the audio of the show to the point of the shutdown. We had the music running on a much larger sound system and were able to time the edited show to start with the music.

I appreciate this is a bit late, but just wanted to add if you have a tablet atteched, either to an r2 or command centre, you can use the "jump to cue" function to jump forward 16 mins. This would also skip the audio to the correct place if using the audio box.

Want to lock on to an position and rotate the camera around it, seems hard to control in the camera keyframes window, what is the best method?

Drew, that looks great! Thanks

I will give that a try. Many thanks!

Have you tried creating the individual effects in the cake as single shots and arranging them on the timeline? Pretend for a moment that instead of a cake with fuse between each tube, this was a sequence of 100 single effects. If you can create the effects and script the sequence on your timeline, then all you have to do is select all 100 shots and use the Effects menu option to combine them into a cake.

Hi Walker Pyrotechnics, happy to help. To make this effect look really good, you definitely want to use the effect editor. As a base effect, I started with, White Strobe Peony w/Purple w/Gold Palm Pistil. Then I jumped into the effect editor and started tweaking. I made a lot of tweaks but the most important change was to adjust the number of stars on the Gold Palm 'break' node down to 1. Here's the custom sim, let me know what you think! https://www.loom.com/share/b232c6f2a39f4cc686ce8498b4d193f1   {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}   In Finale 3D, do Ctrl+G and paste in all the text above including the curly braces {}

Hi,   i didn't want to blame you - that was not my intention. But my experience is that a lot of people try to be perfect from the beginning and spend to much time with such things. And so i wrote it here because other people reading this to and if you are a beginner this could be a good tip.  Back to the effect: Did you create the effect as i showed in the video or did you use the posted effect description ? Of course - this is only one effect of the cake you want to create. And of course , you should try  to optimize it. So for example , teh second break taht we inserted is to big and the timing of the  break should be set to the same time as the first break .  It should only show you how to create the peony with one comet in it. Now you must create all different effect colors used at the cake, then place the created effects on the timeline and combine it as a cake.   I used the latest release for my video - maybe there are problems if you use an earlier/older release.   Dirk