Mac Finale, v27.4, Mac OS X 14.7.6 (Sonoma), iMac Apple M3, 24 GB RAM
Without seeing an actual Finale document we can only guess. Thoughts: 1) The key signature in your example can also be created as a Linear Key Signature. You might find that a Linear Key Signat...
You can add an extra staff to the document, for the display of the “2 small measures”. Scale the extra staff to a smaller size as you like (use the Resize Tool - icon: %). Hide the staff where you ...
Instead of hiding the notehead, replace the notehead with a different font character, e. g. the space character. This is done in Special Tools Tool, sub-tool Note Shape Tool.
… 'Help' told me to use the text tool and to then to choose 'text' … This sounds strange. Finale has a Chord Tool for entering chord symbols. I wonder why 'Help' did not tell you about the Chord ...
… The only thing I might want now is to remove the blank space where the staff was … I suppose that you mean the vertical staff height, right? Page Layout Tool. Page Layout menu > Systems > Edi...
If I understand you correctly, you need to hide everything in the staff except lyrics and chord symbols, right? This is done with the Staff Tool. To get to the Staff Attributes, double-click the ...
I could be on the wrong track here, but there might be another culprit: Are there - by any chance - any glissandi in the document?
Since your MIDI/Audio setting is “Play Finale Through VST”, recording to audio file is done in “real time”. In Other Words: If the piece has a duration of 3 minutes, then saving to audio takes 3 mi...
My first guess would be that the culprit is the “virtually stuck key” syndrome. Sometimes the computer misunderstands the connection to the computer keyboard, and wrongfully gets the idea that a ke...
1) If you play back the Finale document, then does the playback stop at the same “fermata a few measures after the opening”? 2) What playback device are you using in this particular Finale docume...