BIAB experts will be needed here for better advice, but i thing you will have to set a 4/4 bar to triplets ... and i never worked with finale.
On the note entry window you can set 12/8 then (in BIAB 2019) to check matters, but how it exports as MIDI file format (or XML?)?:


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