[Finale] Sibelius into Finale
Richard Yates wrote: Is there any way at all, short of reentering all the notes, of getting a Sibelius score into Finale (even just as MIDI)? Richard Yates It'll cost some money, but if you buy the MusicXML plug-in for Sibelius from www.recordare.com, you can export the music into MusicXML format, I'm no Finalist, but I did once save a Sibelius score as MIDI and then open it in Finale. I wanted to see if it would (unlike Sibelius) notate multiple Scotch Snaps correctly, which it did. The formatting seemed to have flown out the window, and others will know better than I whether that was recoverable. I'd be interested to know, actually, because I'm still sitting on a folder with about 200 backward-facing scotch snaps, and it's either Finale or pen and ink. john harding ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] ETF or what?
I am an experiencedSibelius user, about to try and come to grips with Finale, of which at present I have the demo version of 2004. A Finale score has been sent me as an ETF. It appears good but the extracted parts are very badly laid out - huge spacing between staves - and will need considerable reformatting. It seems to me perverse to try and reformat in Sibelius (in which in any case some features, notably slurs, get mangled in translation). So I really ought to bite the bullet and learn to do it in Finale. Although the ETF file opens well in Finale, I assume I will get on better if I ask to be sent the file in its original format, which is some earlier version of Finale. I would be grateful for confirmation of this, and any other advice. john harding ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
