FINALE Fireworks User Guide

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User Interface Layout In subsequent chapters, we’ll take a closer look at most of these components. Briefly, they are: FINALE Fireworks User Guide • Main Menu. The options in the Main Menu let you open and save shows, switch backgrounds, create “Launch Positions”, add music to your show, and so on. For real-world designers, the File submenu lets you write your show as a firing report in a number of standard formats. • Inventory. The Inventory section lists the fireworks that you can drop into your show. Every time you launch program, the application connects to the FINALE Fireworks website and downloads fireworks into your Inventory, so your fireworks list will always be up-to-date. • Sky Field. This is where your show is displayed. You can drag-and-drop fireworks into the Sky Field, move their launch and “target” positions (the target is the firework’s highest point), delete individual or groups of fireworks, and so on. • Wind Slider. FINALE can add a wind effect to your show. You increase and decrease the wind (and change its direction) by moving the Wind Slider up and down. As you move the slider, the speed and direction of the wind is displayed above the Wind icon. To remove all wind, move the slider to the vertical center of the window. • Zoom Slider. When you launch FINALE Fireworks, the Sky Field is set to simulate an area that’s about 900 feet high and 2000 feet wide. If you resize the window, the resolution changes—your fireworks will appear to be closer or farther away—but the dimensions of the simulated area don’t change. To zoom in and out of the Sky Field, move the Zoom Slider up and down. The simulated height is displayed above the icon as you move the slider. • Timeline. The Timeline shows the temporal positions of your fireworks. In the illustration, we see three fireworks, represented by the white “blips” along the Timeline. Exactly which part of the firework a blip represents depends on the type of firework: For shells, it’s the burst event; for fountains, comets, and mines, it’s the launch. If you look closely, you can see a wavy black section superimposed on the Timeline. This is the waveform of the music that you’ve added to your show, making it easy to synchronize your show to your soundtrack. • The Playhead represents the current moment that’s being displayed in the Sky Field, and moves left-toright as you play your show. You can drag the Playhead to quickly “scrub” through your show. • Playback Controls. The Playback Controls that are displayed onscreen let you start and pause your show, and rewind to the beginning. A number of other controls (incremental fast forward and rewind, seek to end, and so on) are provided in the File > Timeline submenu. All of the controls, onscreen or not, are bound to keyboard keys making it easy to control your show. Most notably, the spacebar toggles between Play and Pause, and arrow-left/arrow-right moves a paused show forwards and backwards by a single frame. PAGE 12
User Interface Layout Other Views FINALE Fireworks User Guide In addition to the default workspace, FINALE presents two other important views: The Firework Editor and the Firing View. • The Firework Editor presents a set of sliders, menus, and other controls that let you modify the attributes of a firework. To display the Firework Editor, you double-click on a firework that you’ve added to your show. The editor is presented as a series of tabs across the top of the main window: Firework Editor The Firework Editor is described in detail starting with the Creating Your Own Fireworks chapter of this User Guide. PAGE 13
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Page 20 and 21: 4 Launch Positions: The Basics Rath
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