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

Aurora Fireworks & DFLee   We have fixed the My Effects sync issue. The items in your My Effects were not impacted by the server outage in any way. You can simply restart Finale 3D and login.

Aurora Fireworks & DFLee   Yes, this is a server-side issue on our end. We’re working to get it resolved ASAP. Please don’t worry, the items in your My Effects collection are stored safely. The problem is with the sync process hosted on the server, not with the data in your My Effects collection. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Good news Lee, just heard back from Drew it is something over at the Finale end and they are working on a fix!   Steve

Yeah, my concern is the catalogue being lost too, like you have many displays waiting to design.

Well Im glad its not just me! In the nicest possible way!   But sucks when we are trying to get ready for season!   Over 20 shows to script so fingers crossed for a quick response!   My concern is that I can go into a previous show, per show effect and add it back into my effects so my worry is all my custom catalogue may have gone!