Artist Help:Focus Palette

This displays the Focus index place holders. These place holders are a link to stored data to set mirror of yoke parameters in all active Fixtures that have data defined for this index.

Clicking on a Focus place holder will set position parameters on the active Fixtures. If the Beam place holder selected does not contain data for an active Fixture, the Fixture will not change.

This displays the Focus Indexes which containing positional data for mirrors and yokes.

These Indexes differ from the colour and brush indexes in that they are stored as index references when saved in a cue, scene or step. This means that any cues, scenes or steps with these references are changed if the Focus Index data is changed.

To Create a Focus Index

Say you wish to create an index that has data to send all of the fixtures that can point to the centre of the stage to the centre of the stage.

• Activate all the required fixture and set the 'Preset level' for all off then. This will turn the light output on in white etc.
• Position all the beam to the required centre stage position.
• Click 'New Focus'. This will open the Palette Data dialog displaying all the position parameters that will be store in the Index.
• Click OK. A new focus index is added.

To Use a Focus Index

Clicking on a Focus Index will cause the selected Fixtures to move to the stored position. If the Focus selected does not contain data for a selected Fixture, the Fixture will not change.

In the tree view any position parameters that are set to an Index will have a yellow icon and a small blue 'i' to left of it. This indicates that when you save to a cue, scene or step it will be saved as a reference to the Focus Index. Consequently any subsequent change of the Focus Index data will be reflected in the playback of the cue or scene.

Adding Focus data

During programming you can select a Focus Index from the combo box and click 'Add To'. This will open the the Palette Data dialog from where you can alter any data that will be stored to the selected Index.