Very useful information, Robert. Thank you. I am away from home now, but I'll check that number when I get home tonight.
After working with a musical that I wrote back in 1999 that had different files for every song, I swore that the next project like this I would keep in one file no matter what. Raymond Horton Composer, Arranger Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) United Methodist Church Retired Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra, 1971-2016 On Jul 23, 2016 7:15 PM, "Robert Patterson" <rob...@robertgpatterson.com> wrote: > You guys may be hitting the frame limit of 32767, especially if there > aren't many rests or if you use a lot of multiple layers. For any work with > 10's of staves, I wouldn't take it past 1000 bars before splitting into a > new file. > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 4:47 PM, J D Thomas <j...@thomastudios.com> wrote: > > > Hi Raymond, > > > > I have been having very similar issues with a two-act opera I’ve been > > working on. Each act is about 1500 measures, full orchestra and up to 18 > > characters in vocal lines with lyrics. Everything you’re experiencing I > > have been dealing with for the past several months: > > saving file takes up to 18-20 seconds. > > time signature changes takes about 90 seconds. > > instrument changes take over a minute. > > JW Navigation plugin refuses to work at all on these files, but it works > > fine on other files. > > Lyric editing can be most frustrating. I have each character with its > own > > separate verse for overall organization, and sometimes, when selecting a > > verse, I get the spinning beachball for over a minute. But it’s quite > > random. > > File size more than doubled when converting from 2012. > > > > This is all in Finale Mac 2014. 2014.5 is worse; completely unusable. > > And, to be honest, things weren’t much better back in 2012. I abandoned > > that version since it’s quite buggy under my current OS, Yosemite > 10.10.5. > > > > I have discussed these issues with MM, and they confirm Finale doesn’t > > like large files! No shit Sherlock!! > > > > I know this doesn’t help your situation, but you’re not alone here. > > > > *************************** > > J D Thomas > > ThomaStudios > > > > > > > On Jul 23, 2016, at 2:20 PM, Raymond Horton <horton.raym...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > One more one more thing. Trudging along in 2014 now , I have been > > reminded > > > that every time signature change takes a very long time, about a minute > > or > > > so. I hope I can move this file back to 2012 before I die of boredom or > > old > > > age or both. > > > > > > Raymond Horton > > > Composer, Arranger > > > Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) United Methodist Church > > > Retired Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra, 1971-2016 > > > > > > > > > On Jul 23, 2016 3:25 PM, "Raymond Horton" <horton.raym...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > >> I promised this several weeks ago but put it off. Unfortunately, > today I > > >> was forced to go back and forth between the two versions because my > file > > >> kept crashing in 2012. > > >> (Windows 10 , three year old computer that should be fast enough for > > most > > >> apps.) > > >> The file in question is more than 2,000 measures for orchestra, 5 > voice > > >> parts, and two pianos. Orchestra is 8 Woodwinds, five brass, timpani, > > >> percussion, and a xylophone - Glockenspiel staff. > > >> Saving this file in 2012 takes about 3 seconds, in 2014 22 seconds! > > >> Exporting the 2014 file to a 2012 file takes about 11 seconds. > > >> So, I have been working on it in 2012 for the past several months. But > > the > > >> good news for 2014 is that the crashing that has been happening, today > > >> only, every time I edit a certain part of the score happens in 2012 > but > > not > > >> 2014. So, despite the time problems, I may need to finish this file in > > 2014. > > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Finale mailing list > > > Finale@shsu.edu > > > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > > > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > Finale@shsu.edu > > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
