Time Signature - A specifik question :-)

Hi Forum
I work in FINALE As well as in LOGIC.
1.
If I've written a long passage in finale changing timesignature every bar, how to export these into LOGIC?
2. Im still not familiar with the three tools in Arrange>region>Cut/insert time and the differences between these three. What I often want is to move and insert ( in the middle of a sequenze ) a section with a lot of changing meters.
But I never succed in getting the right bars and timesignatures.
Logic always arsk to insert ekstra bars with strange meters in order to perform my move?
Yours
Bo Lundby-Jaeger

The only consistent way I have found is:
1. In Finale save as ... MIDI file ... (Separate track for each instrument)
In the finder right click (control click) on the MIDI file
Select open in... Logic Pro
The MIDI file will now open in Logic Pro with Tempi (If you have set them up) and all time signatures in place. (sometimes the opening tempo will be wrong, but all subsequent tempo changes should be OK. You will need to adjust the opening tempo in the Global tempo track.
I don't know a way to get time signatures from a Finale file into an existing Logic "song"

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