Hi Andrew, I think i facing the same issue Ehrilch, your new update 20.9.2024 have so much issue. Im urgently require you to fix this bug because we have a show on next week and need finalise our proposal.

I just emailed Drew. The size column in My Effects still has no data except for effects listed as “Single Shot”. What I was talking about was when you click on an effect, then click “edit this item (VDL or rack)” for that effect, the VDL window opens and in the Visual Description of ALL shells, the size is not listed. As soon as you add the size to the Visual Description, and click “Enter” the size populates the “Size” column for My Effects, or whatever effects DB you are using.   As I reported in the Forum after your email, the VDL for each effect does not contain the Size in the Visual Description. All VDL effects for shells are defaulting to 3”.   I did figure out how to determine the size of the effect by the pre-fire times for the shell. I am going to continue to work with the Unnamed effects for now.   Please take a look again this morning and see if you are seeing something different.  

  EhrlichFire wrote: Drew, I also am finding that the shells I know are 5″ shells, the VDL is missing the size in the description and it is defaulting to 3″. I am updating the VDL File in my unnamed effects. As a matter of fact, ALL of the effects are missing the size in the Visual Description of the VDL File. It is defaulting to 3″ in the VDL.   Hi EhrlichFire, I sent you an email yesterday about one hour before you made this post to let you know that we had fixed the issue and restored your My Effects collection to the exact state it was in just before you lost your size values. If you restart Finale 3D and sync and you should see that your My Effects data is fully recovered.   An effect’s size is stored in the Size column, not in the VDL column. For example, if you create a new effect and type 5″ Red Peony, you will see that 5″ is stored in the size column and Red Peony is stored in the VDL column. This is by design and perfectly normal. When an effect is missing its size, it defaults to 3″. The trouble you were having had everything to do with missing values in the Size column (which have now been restored). There’s no need to add the sizes of your effects to the VDL column.

Drew, I also am finding that the shells I know are 5″ shells, the VDL is missing the size in the description and it is defaulting to 3″. I am updating the VDL File in my unnamed effects. As a matter of fact, ALL of the effects are missing the size in the Visual Description of the VDL File. It is defaulting to 3″ in the VDL.

Hi EhrlichFire, thanks for the report. We are fairly confident we understand the issue — we’re investigating right now, and I will follow up as soon as we have more information or a fix.

While working on scripting a show, I noticed two of my effects had incorrect available quantities after I had previously corrected them. I thought maybe I had not synced with the network. So I made the changes again and after syncing with the network, I no longer have any data in the “Size” column of my effects and cannot filter “My Effects” by “size” since that data is missing. I tried saving the show, closing the app, and restarting, but that did not fix the problem. How do I fix this?   Other information, “Per Show Effects” has data in the “Size” column, but no data in the “Available” column. Both “My Effects” and “Per Show Effects” have data in the “Used” column. However, they do not list the effects in the same order even when filtered by the “Used” column.

FEATURE REQUESTS:    1. A “home” dialog that shows recent projects. I’m rarely interested in opening Finale with a blank project. 99.9% of the time I will close it and open the most recent project I was working on. Would be nice to just have a “home” page that shows the last 10 recent .fin projects and perhaps a “pin” option that saves them to the top of the list. This is an industry standard feature for most all other software I use and is very helpful.   2. In addition, this home page could also have a “New” project section with saved project templates. Then project templates can be either show templates or SIM templates. SIM templates would be just a project but when created, it would prompt for a name, then create a .fin project AS WELL AS an effect database of the same name to keep the custom SIMs separate in their own .fdb for better organization and sharing.   3. Once that is done, it would be nice to have a “Share SIM” option that uploads the project and effect DB to a central repository for all to enjoy. Then a repository search would be nice to find custom SIMS made by the community. I have a TON of these I could share.

Curtis B  CTRL+TAB would be the best practice for this I believe.

1000 thanks for sharing that !

Hi,   Coming back to this subject as DMX lights are more & more used in our shows. I understand you’ll resume working on transition & fades after you are done with rack layout improvements. For the time being, I am still doing manual ramps (boring but working).   But what about visual rendering ? Maybe I’m doing something wrong, but when I have a PAR LED, I start by selecting the colour. That’s ok and I can see a cone in the simulation even if dimmer is 0%. But after that, if I do a manual rampup of the dimmer (10%, 20%, 30%, etc…) light cone disapears in the sim. Strobe also seems not rendered. Are there any project in the pipe to improve DMX light rendering ?   Thanks ! Romuald