Hi Brad, happy to help. Please make a show with a single effect at 5 seconds on the timeline and then render a video from 00:00.000 to 00:10.000 (10 seconds). Send the show and the matching video support@finale3d.com. I’ll try to reproduce the issue using your show. If I can’t, that may suggest something unique about your machine that is causing the problem.

Any time I render a video, whenever there are no effects in progress, the left half of the screen is black.  As soon as an effect hits, it renders normally.       Here is my version info: Anyone have a workaround or know the cause?

Hello, I’m Axel and I’m hobbyst of the pyro. And I create some pyro show for fun   Have nice Day

Sounds fair to me.

  Pyro_72050000 wrote: Hello Drew just wanted to ask you a quick question. Is it okay to put strobe pots back in the cake area ? It does not say you can or can’t in the list but since they are small figured their would not be a issue.   While I can appreciate the reason for the request, I have to refer to our rules which state “Strobe Pot” are restricted to the “P” positions.  This is probably an oversight on my part and I will note this for our next competition, but for now, we will have to stick to it since there are already some who have submitted their designs and it wouldn’t be fair to change the rules after the fact.  Hope you can understand my position.

  DrewFinale wrote:   Tim Jameson, this one’s all you, what do you say?         I am game

  Tim Jameson, this one’s all you, what do you say?   Pyro_72050000 wrote: Hello Drew just wanted to ask you a quick question. Is it okay to put strobe pots back in the cake area ? It does not say you can or can’t in the list but since they are small figured their would not be a issue.    

Hello Drew just wanted to ask you a quick question. Is it okay to put strobe pots back in the cake area ? It does not say you can or can’t in the list but since they are small figured their would not be a issue.

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.   Hello everyone, My name is Matthew Loreto and i was raised in fireworks! I love everything about fireworks but my favorite is designing and watching a show come to life right in front of your eyes!! It is truly amazing how far along finale has come from when I started playing on the trial version back in 2014-2015

  DrewFinale wrote: Hi nicola fici, the set piece and moving wheel effects are made possible using a “macro”. A macro allows effects to be animated and have a distance offset from the position. The downside is that macros will not show a ‘Used’ quantity. You’re not doing anything wrong; this is just a limitation of the macro functionality. When you use a macro, the price is being added to your show, but you will need to keep track of the quantity manually to make sure you don’t exceed the available quantity. thanks drew, you were very clear.