FocusTrack 1.200, released May 8th 2006, included a host of new features for both managing both moving and conventional lights and cue lists
• Row shading making it easier to read list views.
• Highlight change options to show the start of a new channel, group or rigging position.
• 'Flag' option: a quick way of drawing attention to lights that regularly need re-focussing.
• Status display shows how views are sorted.
• Beep on new options - audible indication of when you move into a new channel, group, rigging position, lamp type or other while focussing lights.
• 'QF' Quick Find buttons make it easy to find channels, groups or other things more quickly.
• 'PhotoShoot Loop' mode - automates stepping through lamp focuses while photographing the rig (just press return for next), and clearer what you're photographing.
• Improvements to session number handling for photo shoots.
• 'Focus Loop' mode - large view of what you're focussing when re-focussing moving lights, automatically ticks off focuses as you do them, just press return the next lamp focus.
• Next Cue can now follow cue links in imported cue list, if required.
• Auto-fill of scene names and scenery used from Cue List, rather than having to re-enter this information repeatedly for multiple lamp-focuses.
• Printing of CD jewel case front and back covers and CD labels.
• New utilites menu, simplifying some common tasks.
• New screen lock mode for when FocusTrack left unattended in public.
• Console control via xConnect (Macintosh computers only) improved.
• Row shading making it easier to read list views.
• Highlight position buttons making it easier to see start of new lamp type or rigging position in list views.
• 'QF' QuickFind buttons make it easy to find channels quickly.
• 'Focus Loop' mode for re-focussing conventional lights, with or without direct control of the console (console control on Macintosh computers only).
• Useage screen lets you see what actually gets used in a light during the show - colours, positions, gobos and more.
• Jumping to big picture views goes to correct conventional or moving light display.
• More patch/Lightwright merge options.
In CueList
• CueList now merges cue list on show import rather than importing it, so you can now add your own cue list or other notes, such as smoke cues.
• Alternate row shading to make cue list easier to follow.
• Cue list display of part cues improved.
• Can highlight new cues or cues deleted since last show import.
• Can highlight scene breaks or sub-scene breaks (perhaps cues at the start of songs).
• Scene break highlighting can be manual (via checkboxes) or automatic (matching text in cue names).
• New buttons allow quick jumping to a cue number or to a scene break cue (picked from a scene list).
• Cue lists can now have pictures imported; these pictures also appear in FocusTrack big picture displays
You can see what changed in earlier versions of FocusTrack here.
Or why not try it for yourself?