What
information can FocusTrack store?
FocusTrack consists of two main sections:
RigTrack:
this stores information about the lighting rig - what
each channel is, where it’s rigged, what
it’s purpose is, where it’s patched. For
conventional lights, which only have one focus, it
can also store information about the focus - in grid,
descriptive or other written form, and/or as a
digital photograph of the focus.
RigTrack can also maintain maintenance logs for
lights, recording when they've been swapped in and
out of the rig and the repairs that have been done to
them, and can track the number of hours that moving
lamp bulbs have burned, giving warnings when lamps
are due for replacement.
It’s like Lightwright - except that because it
has access to your showfile data, it can also tell
you which colours or gobos you have actually used,
and which lights you haven’t. Plus because it
gets the patch from the console, you know the patch
information is correct!
FocusTrack:
this stores information about how moving lights are
used. For each lamp in each position a
‘lamp-focus’ record is created. You can
then add the information you need: a grid focus, a
description of the position or purpose of the focus,
a set plan with a cross showing the focus position,
details of the scene the focus is used in or the
scenery it is used to light, or a digital picture of
the focus. You can also record the first cue that
each focus is used in, if required, making it easy to
see when you need to re-focus lights when stepping
through a show.
FocusTrack can also store a cue list for the show
with a cue description, cue times and a digital
photograph of the cue to give a complete record of
the show.