Is it possible to use other shortcodes inside shortcode maker

yes. I do it all the time.

great, any chance you could provide an example of how you do it…

I create a shortcode called [su_gold_membership]

In the HTML MODE I put the following

<p>[groups_can_not capability="cyt_premium"][su_note] Only Gold members can see this post. Would you like to upgrade?<a href="/membership-access/"> Click here.</a>[/su_note][/groups_can_not]</p>

groups_can_not shortcode is from the GROUPS plugin
su_note is from this plugin to put the text in a yellow “note”.

and when you publish the post the shortcodes work as expected?

for some reason mine doesn’t… when I publish the post it prints the shortcodes instead of actually processing them, well correction, it processes su shortcodes but not 3rd party ones. maybe its just the 3rd party ext. Im gonna go experiment some more!

I know this is a generic answer but check if there is a plugin conflict. If you turn everything off and leave just the short codes, does it work? Then try the default theme

have you been able to get it to work in php mode?

figured out how to get them to work in php mode you have to use
echo do_shortcode('[tab title="Demo"]Content[/tab]');