Hi Kevin, the best way to edit a cake is to select it, then go to Effects > Break apart cake. This opens a temporary show with the cake laid out on the timeline as individual shots. From there, you can make any adjustments necessary, then select the shots and recombine the cake.   Can you send over a link to the YouTube video that you watched? It sounds like it might be outdated and needs to be taken down.    

I watched one of your videos on your Youtube channel about creating effects, where you created a 13-shot slice and was able to directly edit in the effect editor. I’m trying to do the same thing now to make minor modifications and it won’t allow it? I get a prompt that states that a cake cannot be edited, only single items can. Is there a way around this, where I can edit cakes in effect editor. Thank you for any help! Kevin.

So no comments at all then……?

Is there a way to put it into a blueprint to not allow two cues to fire on the same mod at exactly the same time?  Our old firing system doesn’t allow two cues to fire together so we always have to manually space multiple cues about .05s apart.  Visually no one can tell the difference but its a pain in the ass to implement.  Can this be done with some kind of rule? We are using a multi system universe and the cobras can handle it, but the old system can’t.  

  EhrlichFire wrote: HI Drew, I am aware of that feature. I want to use the “Quota” to provide a guideline of what I can use in each show. For Example, I have 25 Red Crossettes in Available (<0) in My Effects. I want to use no more than 8 in each of 3 shows. I unhid the Quota Column in Per show effects, But I cannot populate any quantity in that column. https://finale3d.com/groups/english/forum/topic/using-the-quota-column/#post-2224825

HI Drew, I am aware of that feature. I want to use the “Quota” to provide a guideline of what I can use in each show. For Example, I have 25 Red Crossettes in Available (<0) in My Effects. I want to use no more than 8 in each of 3 shows. I unhid the Quota Column in Per show effects, But I cannot populate any quantity in that column.

Hi EhlanaG, here are a couple questions to help us troubleshoot the issue:   1) Did you recently update Finale 3D? If yes, does the problem go away if your install the version you were running previously? 2) Do you know what version of Finale 3D you have installed?

Hey EhrlichFire, check out Quota in Table 1 of Inventory management basic instructions.   Since a “Quota” is the quantity earmarked for a specific show, the numbers need to be entered in Per-show effects. An easy way to set quotas is to create a spreadsheet with two columns “Part Number” and “Quantity”. Then, save the spreadsheet as a CSV file and import it into Finale 3D by going to File > Import > Import quotas for show. This will populate the part numbers and quotas into Per-show effects. Once they are in Per-show effects, they will show through into My Effects and any other effect collection. Optionally, you can then go to Effects > Update Per-show effects to pull all the other details for the products into Per-show effects.

ok another cool thing to have on rack diagrams is annotations that can have a leader line to each tube, could say things like the product

I have had the same issue today! Been running fine on the same laptop up until today. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but it never opens. IT department said this is all they could find that was showing a sign of error.