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cduesman
07-13-2021, 05:28 PM
I didn't shoot a show on the 4th, but I recently did a show for my daughters graduation. She picked the music. (I had never heard of some of the music she suggested.) We finally agreed on some music that was fireworks worthy.

I used Finale 3D to design the show. It was my first time using Finale 3D. (I'd used Finale Fireworks in the past.)

I was pretty happy with everything except for my go-to slow whirlwind cake which fired in 12 seconds rather than the normal 30.

Here's the video. If you hit the CC button to turn on the closed caption subtitles, it will display what items are being fired. It's all 1.4G/1.4G Pro.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJSq4pn-avA

http://www.pyrotalk.com/bulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=5885&stc=1 http://www.pyrotalk.com/bulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=5886&stc=1 http://www.pyrotalk.com/bulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=5887&stc=1

I have some pictures of the setup shared on Google Photos (https://photos.app.goo.gl/nZpJRvwLnNoLC2WN9)

Chris Duesman

jtfannin
07-13-2021, 07:03 PM
Nice show. Good selection of product as well.

Arles
07-13-2021, 07:41 PM
St. Emlos Fire, eh... I like the cut of your jib. Great show!

Engineer Cat
07-13-2021, 10:01 PM
Very nice work. Thanks for the product shout outs. That's very helpful to me.

Rick_In_Tampa
07-14-2021, 12:14 AM
Beautiful show. Beautiful setting. That's one lucky birthday girl!

cduesman
07-14-2021, 12:24 AM
Very nice work. Thanks for the product shout outs. That's very helpful to me.
Thanks. I find the product listing helpful as well. I have a script that takes a cobra or finale script and generates the closed captions.

I altered more 500G cakes in this show than ever before for better timing/control. I shot several cakes row by row. Some of the cakes that typically had a quickened finale I either shot the normal part and the finale part seperately or in a few cases, I replaced the fast fuse in the quickened finale with normal slower visco.

Chris

Mattp
07-15-2021, 02:12 PM
dissecting and altering cakes is alot of work.. but really cool results!! great graduation gift!!