David & Allen, Thanks! I am a Mac user, but a friend of mine is an electrical engineer and PC expert and has multiple PC's and has offered to give me one to use. The composer doesn't want to pay to have his score re-entered and now has someone who uses Score that is interested in completing his project. Since I am a power user of Finale for many years, I'd hate to have to work in another program. I am just thinking about the quickest and easiest way to be able to extract his parts for the already entered music. I have done some scanning but with a score of this nature, I am sure it would take a lot of editing.
I was surprised to see that there is a 5.0 version of Score available and it looks like it was only recently released but I would still much rather work in Finale. The composer is having difficulty obtaining the disks of files from his previous engraver of many years - actually since 1990!!! I was curious to see how Finale imports into Score but doubt it would be practical for this project. Also know that scanning tabloid pages into a letter size scanner is not a great idea. Thanks! Bonnie Bonnie Ruth Janofsky composer / songwriter 818-784-4466 www.BonnieRuthJanofsky.com Message: 14 Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:35:30 -0500 From: Allen Fisher <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Finale] importing Score files into Finale To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; format=flowed; delsp=yes I recommend either scanning or entering from scratch, having not seen the score, I would probably reenter it. Score is really frustrating to get installed (it is a DOS program) much less learn for one project; there's not much demand for it these days On Apr 25, 2009, at 6:45 AM, dhbailey wrote: > Bonnie Janofsky wrote: >> There is an opera where the first third of it is already >> input in Score, the old notation program for PC. Has >> anyone tried inputting Score files into Finale? Was >> there much editing to do? In the import menu, Score is >> listed. >> I was given very old Score files which of course did not >> open in Finale and had ".ham" as the suffix. Which would >> likely be best for that portion of the score already >> input? The score can be printed as is but needs to be >> input to create parts. The other two thirds of the score >> of course I was going to input into Finale. Or should I >> learn Score? I'm great at learning programs quickly but >> would think that Score wouldn't hold a candle to Finale >> and this is a complex classical full orchestra score. >> I can try and get a hold of the Score files, and/or scan >> those score pages already complete into Finale using >> SmartScore X Pro (although my scanner is letter size and >> the score pages are tabloid - so I'd have to either >> reduce them or scan in 2 parts), and/or I could purchase >> Score and learn the program. I thought that Score was >> discontinued long ago but found one site on the web where >> a new version of Score 5 is sold. I think importing the >> Score files would be fastest and the best choice if they >> come across pretty clean. There is both a tabloid sized >> full score and also a piano vocal that is letter sized. > > > > As you say this is a complex classical full orchestra score, most > likely scanning won't save you very much time over entering from > scratch, as frustrating as that sounds. Scanning isn't nearly close > to 100% accuracy, so you'll need to check (and quite likely edit) > all the notation and the lyrics may well get screwed up in the scan/ > import process. Scanning the current tabloid pages in 2 parts won't > work at all, based on my importing experience (admittedly not much > since it's so frustrating and inaccurate for anything other than > simple music). > > Buying Score and learning Score to enter 2/3 of the full score, > compared to entering the whole score into Finale, it seems to me > that first off you will need to know whether Score will run on your > computer. It's a DOS program, isn't it? not all of them will run > anymore, so you'll need to do research. Then you'll need to take > the cost of Score plus the learning curve -- it's quite different > from any of the Windows notation programs, from what I have heard > although I have no experience with it. > > My choice, were I in your position, would be to enter the entire > thing from scratch into Finale so that you will have a complete > score which will (knock on wood) be openable in future versions of > Finale should future editing be necessary. > > -- > David H. Bailey > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Allen Fisher Founder and Principal Developer Fisher Art and Technology [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
