Sorry to bother you again but I was sailing along and now when ever I put a effect into My highest number position in the script window under position the module and PIN number is in red  

I like the request of Pyrojim and i also think that Wills suggestion to implement this is an excellent way. Waiting for it.   Just one more input on it. As we actual have the possibility create reports of both windows (camera and script) with the comments feature it could be interesting to create a report with script and commentlines in combination. So sometimes we generate a chronological script and maybe the comment lines could hold additional infos which i want to see in one report script/comment list.

Yes, we still plan to give users the ability to re-map almost all the shortcuts, with just a few exceptions.  The warning message you mention does not interfere with that goal.  The warning message actually pertains to the new “effect macro” feature.  Effect macros have their own user-defined keyboard shortcuts, but these effect macro shortcuts are independent of the function shortcuts.   Effect macro shortcuts are only active when the show is playing.  Function shortcuts, for the most part, are only active when the shot is not playing.  So by and large, there is no conflict between these types of shortcuts, and they can overlap.  An exception is the “i” key for the function of inserting an empty cue, which has to work while the show is playing.   The ability to add more collections shortcuts thus is unaffected by the effect macros.  We have not heard very much feedback about the collections shortcuts, and we didn’t know if people used them.  So your feedback is very welcome!  If you had your choice, how many collection shortcuts would you want?

This is a terrific feature suggestion.  It is especially helpful that you’ve listed the four example use cases.   Example 2 implies that these notes need to be easy, lightweight, to create and delete.   We’ve been thinking of generalizing the camera key frames feature to other kinds of key frames, and I think this implementation strategy is a good path for your idea, which I’ll call “timeline notes”.   We recently added “Show > Looping > Set start/end marker” which is in the recent beta release.  This function is built off the camera key frames foundation, as you can see from the screenshot.  The two vertical dotted lines are the looping markers, and they are represented in the camera key frames table.   I will add this feature idea to our future feature list and look for a time to implement it, because it fits naturally with this implementation strategy.  Do you have in mind what the notes should look like on the timeline when not hovered over and then also when hovered over, showing the note?  For example, in the screenshot below, the looping points are blue dotted vertical lines.  Normal camera key frame lines for the camera are yellowish solid vertical lines.  What do you have in mind?   Your suggestion of “show/hide all comments” seems important.  If those functions hide the timeline notes markers, it might also be useful to have a function “Expand/collapse all timeline markers” to show all the notes themselves without requiring you to hover over them with the cursor.  

I’d like the ability to insert a comment the same way I insert an effect.   This would give me the ability to flag some point in the timeline to:   1) Indicate where I’m doing a song change, 2) Indicate where I left off editing before I got up and left the computer for the night, 3) Flag a particular part (or parts) of a timeline that I want to point out to someone that I’m sharing the file with, 4) Labeling cool sequences so that you can find them later     It could just be a little flag just like an effect, but if you touched it with a curser or whatever, it would show your comment.  Or you could have a command “show all comments” or “Hide all comments” .   I’d use this feature a lot. > >

We’re still in the process of adding new terms like “Lace” to VDL, so in the meantime I created this effect using the effect editor. The full cake description is below. All you need to do is copy the text, 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.   30mm 25 Shot Cake 40 Degrees (a) 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Hi Eric,   Here’s a video that demonstrates how to create ‘Touch of Gold’:   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.       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