FocusTrack Helps Keep It Looking Great
(automatically, with Eos, grandMA or Strand consoles!)
Show lighting is complicated. Twenty moving lights, twenty positions each. That's 400 positions to keep track of, even before you start worrying about which gobos you've used. Or which colours. And then there's the whole conventional rig....
Lighting is also ephemeral. Easy for it to slip, for that perfect moment to be lost. If you don't want that to happen, you need to precisely document what makes up the lighting.
That's what FocusTrack does.
It lets you document what your moving lights are doing, cue by cue, as you focus them.
From your showfile, it can figure out how your show is made: which moving lights are used in which focuses, which scenes they're used in, which bits of scenery those focuses are for. Which conventional lights, colours, gobos and more are actually used. No more trawling through the off-line editor manually making lists.
It can help you document your focus with digital photography, a precise record, not a written description; FocusTrack will bring up lights in the right positions for you as you photograph them, then import those pictures. No more perching a laptop on one knee while you call up channels on the radio to take their pictures.
It gives you a cue list straight from the console, accurate without having to cross-check numbers and times, but with space to add more detailed cue descriptions or even cue photographs.
It gives you somewhere to keep information about the show: focus descriptions, cue notes, plans and more.
It can track how the rig is used, keeping maintenance logs or letting you know when it's time to change bulbs in the moving lights.
It can help you figure out how to rationalise the rig for next time - gobos to replace, colours to change, focuses that can be rationalised.
It can help you re-focus the rig as you swap lights, mount new productions or on tour.
It can figure out how much power your show really uses.
It's perfect for plays, musicals, touring shows, rep houses.
If you care about keeping your shows looking good, it's perfect for you. Why not try it for yourself?