This video highlights a variety of features that are useful for preparing to design a show in Finale 3D Pro. Features shown include, adding scenery, such as Google Maps ground imagery and 3D models, creating a firing position layout, adding camera presets and position group shortcuts, and creating a site layout complete with position and effect safety distance circles.
This video demonstrates how to restore your "My Effects" collection to an earlier version using an online "Snapshot". This process is extremely useful if you need to recover items that were accidentally (or even purposefully) deleted from your My Effects collection.
This video demonstrates how to move effects between collections using copy and paste. The video also demonstrates how to use copy and paste to export effects to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in order to create a backup or share them with other Finale 3D users.
A blueprint may represent a report or label template, a rack or site layout diagram, a custom table layout (puzzle piece icon), and more. Copy a blueprint from one show to another is useful because it prevents you from having to recreate the blueprint each time you design a new show. In the Hobbyist and Pro versions of Finale 3D, you can take it a step further by replacing the default blank show with your own personalized start-up template.
This video demonstrates how to create and save a custom table layout for the Effects window. You can use the same technique to create a custom table layout for the Script window.
This video demonstrates how to update effects in Finale Inventory by exporting product data from Finale 3D. This video applies if you use Finale Inventory to manage a physical collection of fireworks. This video also applies if you have "Shared Company Effects List". This video does not apply if you store your fireworks in "My effects" or in an offline effect file with a .fdb file extension.
