I run Dorico Pro under Windows 10/11 and want to import a piece from Finale. The music has three movements (flows) and in Finale they are seperated simply by some extra space in the document. I created an XML file of the whole piece hoping I could import this into a blank new project with three empty flows predefined in my Dorico setup.
I tried to keep things simple by not changing any of the import preferences in Dorico. In spite of testing various import options the entire music with three movements was imported into a new flow at the end of my project (after the third flow). Multibar rests were presented as a collection of single bars - perhaps a limitation of the MusicXML language.
On the positive side the import appeared to match my expectations having very few errors so I decided to copy/paste each movement into its respective predefined flow and edit them from there. This did not work very well. For example, the music contains many time signature changes but these were not included in my efforts to Copy/Paste so bars quickly fell out of sync with ties over barlines etc.
There are two questions here:
- Was my strategy for importing into a project with three flows wrong and how should I correct this?
- Why did my select, copy/paste not include all the details included in the imported XML file? (fourth flow).
John McWilliam (jsmcwilliam@gmail.com)