Moving a show from Finale '10 to Sib 6

Discussion of converting to Sibelius from Finale.
pianoboy
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Post by pianoboy » Tue Dec 01, 2009 4:27 pm

Hello all,

I am starting the process of moving a musical theater piece (about 15 different files) from Finale to Sibelius via XML. I have done a couple of dry runs and have had success - I've found it particularly helpful to strip the Finale file of as many text blocks as possible before doing the XML export.

My big question: Do I want to open the MusicXML file in Sibelius and then:

A) just apply the house style I have created, and then manually rename things like Titles, headers, page numbers (and, down the road, manually add staves for guitars/drums/bass)

or...

B) import the MusicXML information in to a scratch document, then cut/copy and paste from that scratch document into a blank template (including instrumental staves) that I have created for the show (process repeated for each piece).

Has anybody else tackled this process? Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

Jason


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