Hi dylan.paiva, happy to help!   Here are a couple questions to help us give you the best guidance:   1) What version of Finale 3D do you have (Lite, Hobbyist or Pro)?   2) What firing system are you using for your show?

Hi Brett, yeah, at the moment, to move events automatically when you drag songs you can only drag one song at a time. Since you need to move everything (all songs and events), I would take this approach:   1) Go to Window > Songs window and add exactly one minute to the Start Time for each song. Note that you do not need to unlock the songs to do this.   2) Select the Script window and press Ctrl+A to select all events. Go to Script (menu) > Time adjustments > Shift times and enter 01:00.000 (or 60s or 1m) to move all events exactly one minute.    

Hi Madness Fireworks, you do not need to recreate your label template each time you start a new show.   Report and label templates are saved as blueprints within the show (.fin) file. This means that any custom report you create will only appear when you reopen the specific show in which it was created.   However, you don’t need to recreate your custom report or label template each time you start a new show. You can easily copy the blueprint for your template from one show to another. You can also set a show containing your custom blueprint as your startup template, so that each time you launch Finale 3D, it opens with your custom blueprint instead of the default blank show.   Here are a few resources for you:   https://finale3d.com/video/copying-blueprints-and-saving-show-as-startup-template   https://finale3d.com/documentation/copying-reports   https://finale3d.com/groups/english/forum/topic/i-customized-my-window-layout-reports-and-labels-where-are-they-saved

Hello, I created a label template, but it won’t save. When I close the software and create a new project, it disappears.   I have to recreate it. Do you know how I can save it in the software so I don’t have to recreate it each time?   Thank you very much.

Hello everyone, I am back! I have a show that I am shooting on the third. I started from scratch as I normally do by importing songs and mapping out rounds accordingly. I have racks mapped out and everything set, but I need to get everything set with the timecode before I export the firing system script. That’s the issue I’m having is exporting.   I have exported all of the songs into a .wav file, but I haven’t seen to get past that regardless of reading through the resources. Any help would be greatly appreciated and thank you so much!

I realized I needed to inject a minute of audio at the beginning of my show this year and ran into an issue I wanted to check on. The ability to drag around songs with events has been great in the past as I wanted to rearrange parts of the show. However, This is the first time I’ve just wanted to shift everything back. I selected all the songs (there’s a menu option) but found it did NOT move the events even when I have that option selected. CTRL clicking songs results in the last song’s events moving but nothing else.   Is this a known limitation that you can only move songs with events one at a time or is there a way to do this I’m missing?   -Brett

Hello everyone!   Brad Heitmann from Lake City South Dakota Semi-retired serial entrepreneur Dakota Pier LLC / Ooh Aah Pyro of South Dakota – Boat docks and lifts, repairs and aluminum welding.  I have enjoyed Fireworks for most of my life and joined PGI in 2022, PAT in 2025, WPA in 2025 to gain more knowledge making my own effects. I have set up and launched numerous shows using, hand fired, fused, various firing systems. New to Finale 3D and wanting to learn to script my own shows using software. Thanks for the forum and the information.   Best Regards, Brad

Hi DGHofstee, the Lite version of Finale 3D is limited to manual inventory management and doesn’t support importing effects/inventory from a file. Here’s a screenshot from the full feature comparison.    

Hello all! My name is Jonathan and I am located in South Western PA. I’m the designated “fireworks” guy at my family gatherings and events. Most of what I set off is donated by others so I’m going to be making a lot of 1.4 effects.   Doing the trial of Lite right now to see if it covers my needs. This year is the first time using a firing system so we shall see how it goes!

Is there a way on the LITE version to import effects?  I followed the video tutorial, but do not have the option.  Is it only available in upper licenses?