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Account Setup & Licensing
Getting Started & General Tutorials
Creating and Editing Effects
Inventory Management
Positions
Music and Soundtracks
Scripting
Racking
Addressing
Reports, Labels, and Diagrams
DMX
3D Models and Google Maps
Finale 3D Community
Simulations vs. Real Life Shows
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Account Setup & Licensing (9)

Overview & Licensing
Lite vs. Hobbyist vs. Pro | Key features compared
System Requirements | Selecting a Computer for Finale 3D
Creating an Account
Accessing Supplier Catalogs
Assigning Licenses
Switching Computers (Resetting Machine Activations)
Connecting Finale Inventory to Finale 3D
Finale Inventory Connection Settings

Getting Started & General Tutorials (12)

PyroJam 2023 | Making of the PyroJam Show Design Template
Updating to the Latest Release of Finale 3D
Saving a Show
How to Restore My Effects
Copying & Pasting Effects
Copy and Paste Blueprints from Show to Show
Copying blueprints and saving show as start-up template
Creating a Custom Table Layout
Effects Window Click Action Settings
Updating Effects in Finale Inventory
Enabling/disabling voice cues during playback
Exporting a firing system script with a time offset

Creating and Editing Effects (20)

How to Create an Effect & Save My Effects
Editing in the Effects Window and Script window
How to Create a Cake from Single Shots
How to Store Your Effects Offline (using fdb effect files)
Sharing an effect by copying the VDL input description
How to create a new effect using a shared input description
Creating finale chains (two different ways)
Creating a straight-up 100 shot gold & blue & crackle cake
Creating a cake – 90 shot W shaped red, silver, & blue
Creating a cake – Demons Fury 500g by Pyro Demon
Creating a cake – Mammoth Ring of Fire by Dominator
Creating a cake – Skull King by Sunwing Fireworks
Creating a cake – Sparta 500g by Sunwing Fireworks
Creating a cake – Touch of Gold 500g by Dominator
Creating a cake – Anxiety Attack by Lynch Imports
Creating a lance set piece
Breaking apart a cake and using the cake shots in a show
How to create a multi-break Italian style fermata shell
Creating a 3-break Maltese style beraq shell
Creating Matrix Letters and Vertical Letters

Inventory Management (4)

Updating quotas from a sales order and doing ‘Update Per-show effects…’
Leveraging ‘Remaining Available’ and ‘Subtracting used quantities’
Importing effects and inventory from an Excel spreadsheet
Adding effects from an HBS file to My Effects

Positions (1)

Rotating a line of positions

Music and Soundtracks (5)

Creating a soundtrack and editing songs in Finale 3D
Adding silence to a soundtrack in Audacity and shifting timeline cues/events
Adding SMPTE time code to your soundtrack
Fixing MP3 audio artifacts
Combining pyromusical shows using Copy and Paste

Scripting (14)

How to ‘Group’ Items on the Timeline
Inserting and Replacing Effects with Keyboard Hotkeys/Shortcuts
Inserting empty cues
Importing empty cues from a spreadsheet
Mastering Angles – Pan, Tilt & Spin
Creating a sequence of comets (V-shaped pairs, firing center out)
Using ‘Fan’ and drag & drop to make complex single shot patterns
Moving effects from position to another position
Troubleshooting hidden items on the timeline
Fixing Pan angles
Designing non-DMX flames for COBRA
Fanning a chain and cross-loading into racks
Combining pyromusical shows using Copy and Paste
Duplicating into a flight, creating a sequence, reversing order

Racking (4)

How to make an iShot plug and fire rack
Troubleshooting Racking of Candles
Fanning a chain and cross-loading into racks
Re-Arranging Tubes in Racks to Avoid Angle Collisions

Addressing (9)

Differentiating between types of cakes when assigning addresses
Restricting each module to a rack cluster | Hobbyist vs. Pro
Specifying addressing order using the Custom Position Field
Putting multiple items on the same pin (2 ways)
Fixing ‘Type’ for addressing with single-shots first
Fixing wiring errors caused by ‘Pre-assigned rails’
Sharing fireTEK modules and slats across multiple positions
Using ‘Rack Type’ to pair fanned shells or fanned chains with fan racks
How to Share Modules Between Positions

Reports, Labels, and Diagrams (6)

Creating Custom Reports
How to customize labels (adding content to labels)
Creating a custom report for total NEQ by Hazard Classification
Combining rows in the Script window and exported reports
Printing labels for specific items (filtering labels)
Custom report highlighting based on firing system address

DMX (2)

DMX Show Design Tutorial
Troubleshooting firing system “Universe” vs. “DMX universe”

3D Models and Google Maps (2)

How to Import Google Maps Ground Imagery
Copy & Paste Models w/Positions

Finale 3D Community (4)

How to create a long exposure photo and enter the Monthly Photo Contest
PyroJam 2023 Finalist | Iain Keightley, Selstar Fireworks Ltd | “Escaping Reality”
PyroJam 2023 Finalist | Forrest Gabriel Salvador Cruz | “Jazz It Up!”
PyroJam 2023 Finalist | Patrick Sheeder | “Legend from the Lamp”

Simulations vs. Real Life Shows (11)

Christmas Pyromusical | Sim vs. Reality
College Football Team Intro | Sim vs. Reality
“Escaping Reality” | PyroJam 2023 1st Place Show | Sim vs. Reality
“Jazz It Up!” | PyroJam 2023 2nd Place Show | Sim vs. Reality
“Legend from the Lamp” | PyroJam 2023 3rd Place Show | Sim vs. Reality
PyroJam 2023 Opening by IPC Displays | Sim vs. Reality
Simulation vs. Real Show | PyroJam 2022 | Germany Competition Show
Simulation vs. Real Show | PyroJam 2022 | Philippines Competition Show
Simulation vs. Real Show | PyroJam 2022 | Turkey Competition Show
Simulation vs. Real Show | PyroJam 2022 Opening by IPC Displays
Simulation vs. Real Show | PyroJam 2022 Closing by IPC Displays