FocusTrack is a database system designed for keeping track of how lights are used in shows. Originally designed to allow the focus of automated lanterns to be comprehensively documented, it now offers similar facilities for documenting the use and focus of conventional lighting.
It can be used for productions of any type, but is perhaps of most use for theatrical productions, particularly:
• touring shows, where the focus of the lighting rig (conventional and moving lights) has to be re-created at regular intervals
• long running shows, where a reference is needed so that things don’t creep away from their intended focus over time.
• transfers and new productions, where a reference from the original production is needed either as an aide-memoire, or because you’ve changed parts of the rig - moving to a new type of moving light, for example.
In every case, FocusTrack is particularly useful for allowing the person who programmed the lighting to leave a record of how things were - and, sometimes more importantly - why they were like that with the crew who will have to run and maintain the show.