'Sib. 7.5: Transferring files'

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Sib. 7.5: Transferring files - NickG, 20 Jul 11:26AM
     Re: Sib. 7.5: Transferring files - Robin Walker, 20 Jul 11:41AM
         Re: Sib. 7.5: Transferring files - NickG, 20 Jul 12:03PM
             Re: Sib. 7.5: Transferring files - Roy Moore, 20 Jul 12:55PM
             Re: Sib. 7.5: Transferring files - Laurence Payne, 20 Jul 12:58PM

Sib. 7.5: Transferring files
Posted by NickG - 20 Jul 11:26AM
I'm in the process of transferring all of my Finale files to Sibelius. The transfers are not alway clean, and I have to do quite a bit of editing. Is MusicXML still the best procedure?

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Re: Sib. 7.5: Transferring files
Posted by Robin Walker - 20 Jul 11:41AM
MusicXML is just about the only procedure to transfer files from any other score-editing application into Sibelius.

The transfers will never be perfect, and will nearly always require minor editing corrections in the imported score.

Make sure that, before Finale export, you have updated Finale 2014 to the latest sub-version, and make sure that, before import to Sibelius, you have updated Sibelius to 7.5.1.

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Re: Sib. 7.5: Transferring files
Posted by NickG - 20 Jul 12:03PM
Thank you

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Re: Sib. 7.5: Transferring files
Posted by Roy Moore - 20 Jul 12:55PM
After importing your 'House Style' you will need to 're-set design' in Sibelius to get font changes.

I experience different issues in different scores. I've done one today and I found that all gliss lines had disappeared and some note stems were flipped and were frozen - sometimes different within the same bar.

I've never imported an XML/Finale file that did't need a lot of editing.

A Finale colleague seems to have less problems importing via XML from Sibelius.

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Re: Sib. 7.5: Transferring files
Posted by Laurence Payne - 20 Jul 12:58PM
Your current version of Finale isn't going to fall off your computer. You could consider whether the work needed for wholesale conversion is really necessary. Maybe save a pdf, and an XML, do the tidy-up as and when you need to.

This time next year we may all be moving over to the Steinberg progam anyway.
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Sib. 7.5: Transferring files - NickG, 20 Jul 11:26AM
     Re: Sib. 7.5: Transferring files - Robin Walker, 20 Jul 11:41AM
         Re: Sib. 7.5: Transferring files - NickG, 20 Jul 12:03PM
             Re: Sib. 7.5: Transferring files - Roy Moore, 20 Jul 12:55PM
             Re: Sib. 7.5: Transferring files - Laurence Payne, 20 Jul 12:58PM