Thank you that’s very helpful.

Hi Drew, just something I’ve noticed as I’ve had this problem a lot as well. MP3s from GarageBand (on a Mac) do NOT do this but MP3s from audacity always do popping/crackling. Not sure if that’ll help track down the issue at some point or not.

I’ve been trying to adjust the font size of certain areas a label.. I’ve followed this: https://finale3d.com/documentation/report-font-size/ ,  but the EM size in the blueprint window didn’t seem to do anything, and I don’t want everything sized up there are just certain areas I’d like to be bigger as shown in my image.       Not sure if Drew will read this but something that would be helpful is when you are editing a label template or anything you’re going to ultimately print out, it would be nice to have a live preview window of what the parameters you’re changing are actually doing. That might be very hard to do but if it’s in the realm of possibilities it would be a welcomed addition I think.

Welcome to the Finale 3D forum!   If you send your Finale 3D show (FIN) file to support@finale3d.com, I would be happy to take a look and give you some tips on racking.

I run Hobbyist and have designed my racks.  I have 16×36 shot 2.5″, 10×20 shot 2.5″, 4×36 shot 3.0″ and 4×20 shot 3.0″.  Problem I’m having is it won’t let me put all my shots into the different racks.  I want to put my shells in the 4×36 3.0″ racks and it says due to angles 51 won’t fit, well not sure why that matters I don’t have any crazy angles 25 degrees at most.  The next issue I’m having is putting my single shot mines/comets into the different racks it will allow some but not all of them.  I’ve googled and searched to no end so maybe someone can help me here.  I have 7 front positions for mines/comets and 2 back positions for the shells.  Maybe this is the limitations with Hobbyist, I just don’t know.

Hello, my name is Mark, and I am located in Lake Saint Louis.  I don’t own a fireworks company as this is just supposed to be fun for me Ha.  Just trying to learn here and get efficient with Finale definetly a lot different than show creator.  Looking forward to learning some things here and hopefully getting my questions answered, and maybe one day I will be able to return the favor.

Hi DrewFinale,   I haven’t had time to try since my last message, I’m very busy about writing the fireworks for the French national day which is approaching.. I’m currently using my sister’s computer to work on Final 3D while I wait for more time to find a solution.   Thanks for your help! I’ll let you know as soon as I have time to try.

Hi Grothus, I hope all is well. Were you able to get Finale 3D running using the instructions in my previous post or did you find another solution?  

Feature Request: Add ability to specify type (or subtype, or other field currently allowable as a filter) for a given position; automatically filter effects list when position is selected.   The functionality that filters the events window to the appropriate effects when selecting a DMX position is great, and it got me thinking… Could it be possible to do the same for pyro effects? I’ve got positions that are intended to be specific to certain types of items (shells, single shots, cakes, slices, etc.). For folks that shoot display shells, they likely do the same for different sized shells because of distance requirements.   I heavily rely on the filtering available in the effects window, but I repeatedly select the same filters over and over again as I move between positions. Adding the ability to set a default filter for a position (from the Position Details window) would make this automatic. It wouldn’t be a required field (not every position is expected to be exclusive to a type), and the filtering shouldn’t prevent the user from manually overriding (clearing the selected filter, doing additional filtering, etc.).   Thanks for considering! Rich (Finale user since 2014)

  Pyro_341800000 wrote: Has there been any progress on the water cake effects?   No, I’m sorry, we haven’t yet made the necessary improvements to the 3D environment to support water cakes.