Given the recent Finale <-> Sibelius discussion, I thought people might want to know that the new Sibelius 5.1 update announced today includes support for importing MusicXML 2.0 files. Since Sibelius 5.0 supported only a few MusicXML 1.1 features, this results in much better transfer from Finale to Sibelius than was previously possible.
If you are using Finale 2008 you can take advantage of most of these improvements right away. If you are using an earlier version of Finale, or if you have graphics in your score that you want to transfer to Sibelius, then you will get much better results using our Dolet 4 for Finale plug-in to create the MusicXML file. This plug-in is available from: http://store.recordare.com/dolet4fin.html If you transfering graphics from your Finale file, note that they need to be linked rather than embedded. You will want to export files with graphics as a compressed MusicXML 2.0 (.mxl) file, so that the graphics stay with the score in one self-contained file. Sibelius 5.1 appears to also offer some nice improvements in the ManuScript plug-in language that should allow better transfers from Sibelius to Finale in the future. In terms of saving your music into an open format, Finale still works much better than Sibelius. There is still a lot of score information that our Dolet for Sibelius plug-in cannot access for export to MusicXML files. There are very few such restrictions within Finale (embedded graphics is one of them). But the level of interchange between the two programs is constantly getting better, in both directions. Best regards, Michael Good Recordare LLC www.recordare.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
