Re: [Finale] Scanning, what to do now?

2016-09-26 Thread David H. Bailey
My apologies -- I thought you had already upgraded to Finale v25. If you haven't already wasted your money on Finale25, then don't because it obviously won't offer you anything positive over what you're already doing. But there's no need to be snarky about it, apology or not. Just stick with w

Re: [Finale] Scanning, what to do now?

2016-09-26 Thread David H. Bailey
On 9/26/2016 10:21 AM, John Witmer wrote: > Yes, but how do you scan into Finale from a 3rd party scanner? > John Witmer Sharpeye and Photoscore allow you to save as MusicXML or MIDI, either of which you can import into Finale. -- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com http://www.d

Re: [Finale] Scanning, what to do now?

2016-09-26 Thread Robert Patterson
The scanner creates a tiff, right? If so, you file->import the tiff into Fin14.5. I believe the issue here is that MM inexplicably and inexcusably removed the tiff import from Fin25. But if you import it into Fin14.5 (or some earlier version), you then save it as musx (or mus). There is no need to

Re: [Finale] Scanning, what to do now?

2016-09-26 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I believe you'd have to save it in xml format and import it into finale. Sent from my iSomething -- > On Sep 26, 2016, at 7:21 AM, John Witmer wrote: > > Yes, but how do you scan into Finale from a 3rd party scanner? > John Witmer > Clemson Downs Retirement Community > > On 9/26/2016 10:10:16

Re: [Finale] Scanning, what to do now?

2016-09-26 Thread John Witmer
Yes, but how do you scan into Finale from a 3rd party scanner? John Witmer Clemson Downs Retirement Community On 9/26/2016 10:10:16 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Well, to be fair, makemusic is owned by a company who also owns Alfred music, which is like one of the biggest music publishers in the wor

Re: [Finale] Scanning, what to do now?

2016-09-26 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Well, to be fair, makemusic is owned by a company who also owns Alfred music, which is like one of the biggest music publishers in the world.so. Plus, there are plenty of third party programs that do a better job of scanning. Sent from my iSomething -- > On Sep 26, 2016, at 6:32 AM,

Re: [Finale] Scanning, what to do now?

2016-09-26 Thread Craig Sylvern
Thanks David!! H…let’s see… I think I’ll spend $149 to have to go through more steps to get my work done. Wow…there’s a good business strategy. I know that’s a little snarky but, to be honest, I’m getting very tired of all the workarounds I have to do with Finale these days. Sibelius isn

Re: [Finale] Scanning, what to do now?

2016-09-25 Thread David H. Bailey
On 9/25/2016 5:41 PM, Craig Sylvern wrote: > First, please forgive me if this topic has had an exhaustive discussion. I > haven’t had the opportunity to read the postings for a little while. With > that being said. . . I do a lot of transcribing of solos and ensemble pieces > for my saxophone

Re: [Finale] scanning

2012-08-12 Thread David H. Bailey
On 8/12/2012 9:38 AM, Robert Blais wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm considering purchasing the newest version of Finale in order to use the > scanning option. I often need to transpose/transcribe parts for my youth > orchestra. Past versions have been less than helpful in their scanning > ability. Has a

RE: [Finale] Scanning Software recommendations

2009-09-03 Thread James Gilbert
www.jamesgilbert.music.com > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On > Behalf Of Florence + Michael > Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:00 PM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] Scanning Software recommendations

Re: [Finale] Scanning Software recommendations

2009-09-03 Thread Florence + Michael
I recently had a look at the demo of PhotoScore from http:// www.neuratron.com/ : it looks very impressive. I haven't seen an independent review that compares the various scanning programs, but I think they all have demo versions: I'd certainly try all the available demos before making a dec

Re: [Finale] Scanning Software recommendations

2009-09-03 Thread Bill Thompson
I own an older version of SmartScore, and for the most part I find it to be pretty effective. A friend of mine uses Visiv SharpEye, and I've been very impressed with how well it scans. So much so that it is on my wish list. The differences between SmartScore and SharpEye, from my limited expe

Re: [Finale] Scanning Software recommendations

2009-09-03 Thread David W. Fenton
On 3 Sep 2009 at 14:13, dhbailey wrote: > when I did experiment, I > found that Sharpeye was the best software. It's available > from www.recordare.com and it outperformed the other > scanning software I tried (that which came with Finale and > with Sibelius.) I don't scan from scores but fr

Re: [Finale] Scanning Software recommendations

2009-09-03 Thread dhbailey
Ken Parsons wrote: I'm thinking about purchasing the SmartScore Pro software for use with Finale, but wondered if there's a better program out there, or if SmartScore is the way to go. I will admit that I haven't done all that much scanning for work with Finale (or Sibelius) but when I did

RE: [Finale] Scanning

2008-04-05 Thread Richard Yates
>I have the standard scanning software supplied with WinFin 2006 which I am using with an Epsom 3490 Photo scanner You have to take the advertisements with a grain of salt. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Finale] Scanning

2008-04-05 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
thanks - I'll try that. The original copy is new and very clean - in fact it was produced by a friend of mine scanned by his Sibelius software (don't know what scanner). The original from which he scanned and produced good results could not be usefully scanned at all by my software/scanne

Re: [Finale] Scanning printed music into Finale

2007-08-27 Thread Henry E. Howey
As part of the Music XML 2.0 that Michael Good has been doing, Herve Bitteur has been developing a Java-based music scanning program that seems quite good, even in alpha mode. I love SHARPEYE, which is for PC only. I also have the NEURATRON app PHOTOSCORE, which is (in version 5) far friendlier. I

Re: [Finale] Scanning printed music into Finale

2007-08-26 Thread A-NO-NE Music
I just checked, and it still works with FinMac2k8: File > Scanning >Import and Existing TIFF File... Note that Finale can't read compressed TIFF file. I also don't know why FinMac doesn't recognize my HP scanner's kernel extension. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA

Re: [Finale] Scanning printed music into Finale

2007-08-26 Thread dhbailey
A-NO-NE Music wrote: Stephen Ellis / 2007/08/26 / 01:12 AM wrote: Is there a third-party software that will actually allow you to scan music and use it in Finale? Sees like I heard about one some time ago for Windows (but not for Macs). Any thoughts? A few years ago, I scanned my own mus

Re: [Finale] Scanning printed music into Finale

2007-08-26 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Stephen Ellis / 2007/08/26 / 01:12 AM wrote: >Is there a third-party software that will actually allow you to scan >music and use it in Finale? Sees like I heard about one some time >ago for Windows (but not for Macs). Any thoughts? A few years ago, I scanned my own music as TIF then brough

Re: [Finale] Scanning printed music into Finale

2007-08-26 Thread Stephen Ellis
I have read that as well. Have you any experience with it? I am interested in actual use, not company hype! On Aug 26, 2007, at 2:57 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Hmm, funny, I remember reading this on the Finalemusic.com site. http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/features/enteringnotes/scanning.

Re: [Finale] Scanning printed music into Finale

2007-08-26 Thread dhbailey
Stephen Ellis wrote: Is there a third-party software that will actually allow you to scan music and use it in Finale? Sees like I heard about one some time ago for Windows (but not for Macs). Any thoughts? Sharpeye, available from www.recordare.com will produce MusicXML output which can t

Re: [Finale] Scanning printed music into Finale

2007-08-25 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Hmm, funny, I remember reading this on the Finalemusic.com site. http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/features/enteringnotes/scanning.aspx Stephen Ellis wrote: Is there a third-party software that will actually allow you to scan music and use it in Finale? Sees like I heard about one some time ag

Re: [Finale] Scanning a score

2006-12-30 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends, Permit me to clarify a bit what I wrote earlier.: I lay the film across the glass of the flatbed, scan the images visible at 1200 dpi, and save them as ~.tif files. When I want to view an image, I change the dpi from 1200 to a different figure, and the images are a workable size. I t

Re: [Finale] Scanning a score

2006-12-29 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Will Denayer wrote: Hello All, I received the Hawkes Pocket Score from Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra which I bought at Amazon. The score looks fine but the print is so small that I can hardly read it. This is probably not going to work, but I was thinking that it should be possible to scan

Re: [Finale] Scanning a score

2006-12-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:55 PM 12/29/2006, Will Denayer wrote: >I received the Hawkes Pocket Score from Bartok's Concerto for >Orchestra which I bought at Amazon. The score looks fine but the print >is so small that I can hardly read it. This is probably not going to >work, but I was thinking that it should be possi

RE: [Finale] scanning typeset scores

2004-12-27 Thread Fisher, Allen
t resolution and color depth. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 12/23/2004 9:19 AM To: finale@shsu.edu Cc: Subject: Re: [Finale] scanning typeset scores You w

RE: [Finale] scanning typeset scores

2004-12-24 Thread Jim Mays
Correct. YES in Finale2005. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johannes Gebauer Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 2:59 AM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] scanning typeset scores No, but in FinWin2005. No? Johannes Richard

Re: [Finale] scanning typeset scores

2004-12-24 Thread Johannes Gebauer
No, but in FinWin2005. No? Johannes Richard Yates wrote: I think the Win version of Finale actually supports Twain scanning (ie you can scan from within Finale). Another thing where we Mac users are left out in the cold. Not in FinWin2004. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www

Re: [Finale] scanning typeset scores

2004-12-23 Thread Richard Yates
> I think the Win version of Finale actually supports Twain scanning (ie > you can scan from within Finale). Another thing where we Mac users are > left out in the cold. Not in FinWin2004. > > Johannes > -- > http://www.musikmanufaktur.com > http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de > >

Re: [Finale] scanning typeset scores

2004-12-23 Thread dumusic
ssage - From: "Johannes Gebauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [Finale] scanning typeset scores I think the Win version of Finale actually supports Twain scanning (ie you can scan from within Finale). Another thing where we Mac u

Re: [Finale] scanning typeset scores

2004-12-23 Thread Johannes Gebauer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a word of caution. The scanning and recognition process requires several steps. First you scan, saving the file as a .tif document. Then you run the recognition process. Then you import the file into Finale. I think the Win version of Finale actually supports Tw

RE: [Finale] scanning typeset scores

2004-12-23 Thread Jim Mays
I have been using SharpEye with considerable success. SharpEye is produced and sold by Visiv: http://www.visiv.co.uk/ It uses MusicXML as its export medium. MusicXML is available with Finale via the Dolet plugin developed by Recordare: http://www.recordare.com/finale/ Jim Mays -Origina

Re: [Finale] scanning typeset scores

2004-12-23 Thread dumusic
You will probably get several replies to your question. Later versions of Finale since about 2002(?) include scanning recognition software. The current version includes SmartScore Lite. Just a word of caution. The scanning and recognition process requires several steps. First you scan, saving