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Getting Started
Basic light definition
The TrackPod supports up to 1000 DMX fixtures or devices, using up to
3584 DMX channels (with three optional DMX cards, 512 is the
standard). The system needs to know specific information about the
lights that you will be controlling. To enter this information choose
“Fixtures” from the “Set-up” menu.
Press the “Add” button to add any number of fixtures from the library.
You may select a light model, an addressing mode, a base channel, and a
link. If you add several fixtures the system automatically suggests their
DMX channel address if you selected “auto address”. The fixtures can
be seen in the spreadsheet, where you can sort them by clicking on the
different column headings.
Groups
The system has permanent groups for all “Calibrated followspots” (i.e.
fixtures with controllable pan and tilt that have been calibrated) and for
“All fixtures” which includes all defined fixtures and DMX devices
regardless of whether they are calibrated. The system also automatically
creates groups of fixtures with the same model, if there is more than one
present.
Apart from these automatic groups you may also specify up to 100 “user
defined groups”. In the spreadsheet, select the fixtures that you want to
group —you may shift-click to make contiguous selections or ctrl-click
to make non-contiguous selections—and click the “New group” button.
This creates a new group which can be renamed by clicking on its name.
You may add more fixtures to this group by dragging and dropping the
fixtures from the spreadsheet to the group. You may remove a fixture
from a group by unchecking the group’s name from the fixture’s
“Groups” column in the spreadsheet.
Fixture IDs
During set-up the system assigns a unique numeric ID to each fixture or
group. This ID is the number used by the console or TrackPod operator
to call up the specific fixture or group. For example, if the group “All
Mac 500s” has an ID=8 the TrackPod operator may load all Mac 500s
by simply typing the number 8 in the keypad and pressing OK. The ID
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