Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
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FocusTrack, the production lighting documentation system, has been chosen to create a record of the lighting on another hit Broadway show: the new musical Sister Act. The show is now playing at New York’s Broadway Theatre after a hugely successful run in London. FocusTrack was specified by production electrician Michael Pitzer to document Tony Award-winning [...]
FocusTrack, the production lighting documentation system, now has a new purchasing option designed to make it even more accessible than before. FocusTrack’s new Single Show option enables the purchase of FocusTrack for one single production for a cost of just £245 ($375). This compares to the original Full FocusTrack licence at £400 ($600). That licensing [...]
FocusTrack, the production lighting documentation system, is already in use on some of the biggest theatre shows in the world – but it is by no means limited to huge shows, as shown by its recent use to document Roadkill, one of the hit shows at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This harrowing play, directed [...]
New shows in London, New York and Chicago join many others in using FocusTrack to document their show lighting.
The ongoing evolution of FocusTrack, the show lighting documentation system, sees the introduction of PowerTrack, a function for calculating the power consumption of shows. PowerTrack takes the information about the levels lights are at in cues, which it extracts by importing showfile data from ETC Eos/Ion, MA grandMA or Strand 300/500-series consoles, and combines it [...]
The team behind lighting documentation software FocusTrack have marked the new year by announcing the release of FocusTrack 2.100. Continuing to respond to the needs of lighting professionals, the new version adds QuickFocus, a new, dual-purpose and invaluable function for documenting and then viewing the use of each moving light in each cue. “FocusTrack was [...]
