FIAndrew,
My advice would be NOT to break it up. I did this with an
orchestra/opera piece that was 1600+ measures and the parts were a
nightmare. A deadline shift allowed me to assemble the score from 10
files into one, and the part extraction was much smoother and more
reasonably sane. The client I did this for used many complicated
string divisi and instruments doubled on one staff one time and split
across two staves at others. I didn't even want to think about putting
the parts together from multiple files. Finale handles larger files
pretty well (this file for me was 3.5 megs), altho there was some
slowdown when editing, like inserting measures or updating the layout
from an early page. But this was a small tradeoff for the part
extraction phase. Again, if would NOT break it up.
Just my 2 cents.
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J.D. Thomas
ThomaStudios
West Linn OR
www.thomastudios.com
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On Aug 16, 2005, at 8:01 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
For the first time in several years, I am working on a very large
orchestral piece whose score should probably be divided into several
files. Before making that decision though, I'd like to know what the
current situation (as of FinMac 2K4) is as regards pasting together
the extracted parts.
If I extract from only the first orchl. file, then paste the rest of
each part staff by staff from the other orchl. files onto the
individual parts files, what information if any will be lost?
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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