FocusTrack 2.368
Bug fixes, updates for Eos v2.3 and grandMA2 v3, plus the ability to import rig data from WYSIWYG and a new printout to give you a focus checklist when you swap out a moving light. Full details of what’s new here.

It is available NOW!

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Changes from FocusTrack v1 to FocusTrack v2.3xx:

In FocusTrack

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• Support for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad - paperwork to go, without the paper! Read more>

• Support for show import and console control with ETC Eos/Ion and MA grandMA1 and 2 (including shows programmed with XYZ positioning) in addition to Strand 300-500 consoles.

• Support for for importing multiple cuelists from Eos and grandMA.

• New QuickFocus Grid, for notating where lights are focussed and transferring that information to/from Cue List. Read more>

• New data comparison tools for rationalising focuses.

• FocusTrack can display channel names imported from console and use these to find channels.

• Interface improved, tidied and made more consistent.

• Optional simplified, task-led Main Menu screen (choose in Preferences, or click on the 'Main Menu' text in Main Menu display).

• New tool for quickly selecting unphotographed lights.

• Tracksheet for following a single fixture through cues now available in FocusTrack.

• Strand 500: detects positions used in effects, including whether effects are actually triggered by cues.

• All focus photos now live together, to avoid having to separate out conventional and moving light focus pictures.

• Support for VMWare Fusion to run Eos client or onPC for console control on Macintosh computers (also supports Parallels Desktop for onPC). Can control Eos directly using Eos Client 1.9 or later for Mac.

• Strand 500: console control via xConnect improved.

• Focus Loop can speak focus descriptions (Mac only).

• New 'renumber position' function.

• New +/- buttons for quickly adjusting ranges of photo file names.



In Cue List
• Support for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad - paperwork to go, without the paper! Read more>

• QuickFocus screen, allowing moving light focuses to be documented quickly as they're made then integrated into FocusTrack. Alternatively, shows imported into FocusTrack can auto-generate QuickFocus grids to give a handy cue-by-cue reference of what the lights are doing.

• 'Learn Cue Timing' mode, allows Cue List to learn how cues are played back during a show to then allow energy use calculations in RigTrack.

• Separate Cue List management screen, allowing cue lists to be updated without having to update the entire FocusTrack (for quickly updating LD cue sheets during tech).

• Cue List can sort cues following links, useful for giving an easy-to-follow cue list with shows that are heavily linked around a cue sequence.

• Cue List printing improved, with new print poptions including a pictorial cue list.

• Tools for importing and exporting cue list data (eg. to/from Excel).

• iPhone formatted cue list, for following along your show while prowling the theatre, with white or dark backgrounds.

In RigTrack

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• Support for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad - paperwork to go, without the paper! Read more>

• New fault log, for keeping track of faults as they appear in the rig and generating worklists for the people who have to fix them!

• New Super Summary function, reducing what a cue does to its essence without channel numbers - great for summarising what cues do when moving to a different venue and/or rig.

• Support for show import and console control with ETC Eos/Ion and MA grandMA in addition to Strand 300-500 consoles.

• PowerTrack mode: RigTrack can calculate the electrical load of a cue or the power used by a range of cues (or the whole show) based on the console showfile. Read more>

• RigTrack can display palettes of all types used by all channels across the whole show, making figuring out unused gobos or colours quick and easy.

• RigTrack can display channel names imported from console and use these to find channels.

• Cue Summary view now operates with Eos and grandMA as well as Strand imports.

• Interface improved, tidied and made more consistent.

• Optional simplified, task-led Main Menu screen (choose in Preferences, or click on the 'Main Menu' text in Main Menu display).

• New DimTrack module, for managing complex dimmer installations, particularly in venues with fixed installations.

• New 'ownership' category for separating house stock from rental stock.

• New Lightwright comparison mode, will flag differences in fixture type, rigging position, unit number, patch, colour and gobo between RigTrack data and a chosen LW export file. Useful when the console patch has been imported into RigTrack as it allows discrepancies between the real patch and what's in LW to be spotted very easily!

• New fixtures in the fixture library.

• Ability to tag lights as source type LED.

• New Chan Break highlight option, for showing gaps in channel numbers.

• More printing options, including options designed for A4 vs US Letter paper sizes.

• Preference option to hide data entry tools, useful to prevent accidental data changes once RigTrack is being left with a crew on a completed show.

• New tool for quickly selecting unphotographed lights, for omitting blocks of lights, and for showing only one instance of multiple channels (useful when photographing paired channels).

• New print options for printing reference sheets readable on iPhone.

• All focus photos now live together, to avoid having to separate out conventional and moving light focus pictures.

• Use + or - in channel QuickFind to add or remove channels.

• New +/- buttons for quickly adjusting ranges of photo file names.


General:
• Re-designed and clearer control screens.

• Scroll wheel/trackpad support.

• General performance improvements (now Intel-native and MUCH faster on Intel Macs!)

• Data import from WYSIWYG.




More information about console support >



You can see what changed in earlier versions of FocusTrack here, or see more detailed change notes here.

Or why not try it for yourself?