This confused me as well, but it appears that if you have a Dorico educational license, you're not allowed to produce commercial work. See question 9 at https://www.steinberg.net/en/education/faq.html
Aaron. On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 5:43 AM, David H. Bailey < dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com> wrote: > Why would your "educational" license force you to redo everything in > Finale? Are there restrictions on what sort of results you can get from > Dorico under the "educational" license? > > David H. Bailey > > > On 4/21/2018 5:25 PM, Steve Parker wrote: > > > >> On 21 Apr 2018, at 13:33, Robert Patterson <rob...@robertgpatterson.com > <mailto:rob...@robertgpatterson.com>> wrote: > >> > >> Wait. Is Dorico at the truly professional level? All I've heard is that > it > >> has the potential to be but isn't there yet. I mean, one of the Dorico > >> users in this thread even said they export to Finale for the finished > >> product. (Which surprised me.) > > > > This may have been me? > > > > I don’t export to Finale. I do everything in Dorico, then start again in > Finale. > > > > This is a method of learning Dorico. At this point (after maybe 3 months > proper use), I’m way quicker in Dorico than after decades of Finale. > > The only reason I’m still re-doing in Finale is that I bought an > educational licence for Dorico (I’m a postgrad…). > > When the next paid upgrade comes, I will move to a full licence. > > > > I don’t want to be on the Finale forum as a fan-boy for Dorico, but it > is at a professional level. Some things need workarounds at the > moment—temporarily I’m sure. But I use workarounds in Finale every day. > Even mixed metres with aligned bars can be achieved. For contemporary > music, using music frames which can have any music assigned to them, allows > things to be achieved within Dorico that would require cutting up in a > graphics program. Pedalling, cues, lyrics, instrument changes—all take > significant fiddling in Finale, but none in Dorico. > > > > Steve P. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > -- > David H. Bailey > dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com > http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com > _______________________________________________ > 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
