Hi Eric,   Here's a video that demonstrates how to create 'Touch of Gold': https://www.loom.com/share/ef8f8dbc9ff8463ca113c4fdf3ef98f6   Here's the full description for the cake. All you need to do is copy the text below, then do Ctrl+G in Finale 3D to bring up the create effect dialog, then put the cursor in the input description field and press Ctrl+V to paste.   20mm 119 Shot Cake (a) 30.0 HTM Gold Glittering Comet + (b) 35.0 HTM 1.5 DUR Very Big Gold Glittering Willow, 1 Row (30a56/23a/17a/10a/3a/-3a55/-10a/-17a/-23a/-30a2188/a56/-23a/-17a/-10a/-3a/3a55/10a/17a/23a/30a2406/a56/23a/17a/10a/3a/-3a55/-10a/-17a/-23a/-30a2042/-25b0/0b/25b3594/30a56/23a/17a/10a/3a/-3a55/-10a/-17a/-23a/-30a2529/a56/-23a/-17a/-10a/-3a/3a55/10a/17a/23a/30a2520/a56/23a/17a/10a/3a/-3a55/-10a/-17a/-23a/-30a2911/a56/-23a/-17a/-10a/-3a/3a55/10a/17a/23a/30a2669/-25b0/0b/25b3607/-30a56/-23a/-17a/-10a/-3a/3a55/10a/17a/23a/30a2520/a56/23a/17a/10a/3a/-3a55/-10a/-17a/-23a/-30a2270/a56/-23a/-17a/-10a/-3a/3a55/10a/17a/23a/30a2361/a56/23a/17a/10a/3a/-3a55/-10a/-17a/-23a/-30a1768/-25b0/0b/25b/CAK)

Here are the links.   https://youtu.be/QQytxFqUPtw   https://youtu.be/RvEdoLEvkoU   Many thanks!

In tha last release Note you mentioned: "Added a warning dialog to detect and warn if the active collection has conflicting keybowrd shortcuts for effect macros."   Would be great to have more than 3 saveable Collections Shortcuts. It think you planned it already to give us freedom with creating shortcuts for it and protect us for conflicts with system predefined shortcuts with the above improvement. But at the moment there are just 3 predefined Shortcut possible for collections. Is it part of an upcoming update? Wish to have more shortcuts. ;-)

Hi Eric,   is it possible for you to post some video links of the cakes here  ? That would help others because these brands are not available in europe and so these people don't know the effect and are not able to help you !   Dirk

I have a really good ability with VDL, for some reason I am having a heck of a time with 2 cakes.   1) Winda Lace Impulse -- especially with the lace part, maybe time rain without the sound? how does that look in the input?   2) Dominator Touch of Gold, for whatever reason this one has 3 rows comets then 1 row of 3 palms, the 4 rows of comets the another row of palms then repeat that second part to finish. Everytime I do (a) + (b) etc... in VDL I can't seem to get it right.   Any help appreciated.   Thanks Eric

For technical folks who want to get the most out of copy/paste between Finale and Excel, here is a documentation article that explains exactly how everything works:   https://finale3d.com/documentation/copy-paste/   There is quite a lot going on behind the scenes when you copy an event from the script or 3D window, like whether the copy buffer contains the positions that the effect is shot from, or the definition of the effect from the effects window.  Since Finale uses the system clipboard for the copy buffer and uses simple CSV-style text for the data, you can always paste into NotePad or Excel to look at the data in the copy buffer, to understand what is going on.

Check out this video to learn how to create a 500g zipper cake in Finale 3D:   https://www.loom.com/share/27610fb2d2384907b629156e660a3bc2

Check out this video to learn how to create a 500g zipper cake in Finale 3D:   https://www.loom.com/share/b24f3b81b5dc47fa805bbdd8907eba6f

Hi FOG fireworks + sfx GmbH, great request, thanks for posting. We plan to add this functionality in the future. We envision that you will be able to upload your custom blueprints to your online account and share them with other users in your company. We don't have an estimated release date for this feature I will take your request as a vote to bump it up on the priority list!

I wish a blueprint synchronisation similar to the syncing of the my effects window. Most we working on more than one project until one gets finished. When we improve our report or adressing blueprints cause we need them the first time in another way, they are only saved in this specific showfile. Its a kind of pitty work to copy and paste them ever from specific showfile to several other actual files. We already use craet new show from startUp Template but that doenst help in the daily work with more than one Showfile which is still in a editing phase.