elektraLite CP100xt Manual Part Two - Manual (Page 54)

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STAGE FOCUS FOR THE TOURING TYPES
WHAT IS IT?
Stage Focus, sometimes referred to as a Global Focus, is the combination of Cartesian Coordinates
that comprise the geometry of your venues platform.
OK, this time in English!
It’s the 4 corners of your stage .
Basically, you use Stage Focus to set the movement limitations of your moving lights. I realize that
limiting the movement of a moving light is usually the last thing that you’d want to do but Stage
Focus is also what we call “Cue specific”. That means that you have to tell individual Cues to read
the Stage Focus limitations.
WHY IT’S USEFUL
The main purpose for Stage Focus is to globally edit all of your preset focus’.
i.e.: Let’s say that you’re programming for a tour. This particular tour is scheduled to be in all
different size venues with a wide variety of ceiling heights. Now, we’re gonna give you a choice
here. You can either spend every afternoon of the tour reprogramming all 75 of the presets that you
have for all 200 moving lights in your rig OR you could show every moving light the 4 corners of
your stage just once and let the CP-100 do all the bloody work for you! The choice is yours.
Personally, I like getting the chance to make it to catering before the show. But hey, that’s just me. I
get hungry sometimes.
HOW IT WORKS
1) Press: STAGE FOCUS - ENTER
This brings up the “Stage Focus Display”.
STAGE FOCUS Fixture no.: 11
Name: Type: Silverado
P00=1731 T00=2932 P10=8923 T10=2811
P01=1833 T01=7746 P11=8210 T11=7615
Now here we see a bunch of stupid looking letter/number combinations. These are known as
Cartesian Coordinates. The “P”s and “T”s stand for Pan and Tilt. The numbers represent the stage as
if it were split up into four sections.
1: Upstage Right = 00
2: Upstage Left = 10
3: Downstage Right = 01
4: Downstage Left = 11