Account Setup & Licensing (9)
System Requirements | Selecting a Computer for Finale 3D
Overview & Licensing
Lite vs. Hobbyist vs. Pro | Key features compared
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 startup 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 (25)
How to Make a Cake from Single Shots
Editing in the Effects Window and Script window
Creating an Effect & Saving My Effects
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
Making a ground salute
Breaking apart a cake and using the cake shots in a show
Creating a Relampagos (Lightening) effect using the Effect Editor
Adjusting duration proportions for color changing effects using the Effect Editor
How to create a multi-break Italian style fermata shell
Creating a 3-break Maltese style beraq shell
Creating Matrix Letters and Vertical Letters
Tuning Crossettes using VDL and the Effect Editor
Using VDL & the Effect Editor to create a custom “Palm Surprise”
Inventory Management (4)
Updating quotas from a sales order and doing ‘Update Per-show effects…’
Leveraging ‘Remaining Available’ and ‘Subtracting used quantities’
Importing effect 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 (4)
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
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 (3)
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 (5)
Creating Custom Reports
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 (3)
How to Import Google Maps Ground Imagery
Converting a SketchUp model to a different version
Copy & Paste Models w/Positions
Finale 3D Community (1)
How to create a long exposure photo and enter the Monthly Photo Contest
Simulations vs. Real Life Shows (5)
Simulation vs. Real Show | PyroJam Germany Competition Show
Simulation vs. Real Show | PyroJam Philippines Competition Show
Simulation vs. Real Show | PyroJam Turkey Competition Show
Simulation vs. Real Show | PyroJam Closing by IPC Displays
Simulation vs. Real Show | PyroJam Opening by IPC Displays
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