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3.5. What is tracking
The dot2 is a tracking console.
Now, you shouldn't really need to worry about that, but it's nice to know some details.
Here's how it works.
In its most basic form you could say that tracking is when fixtures do something if they are explicitly told to. For
example changing a value. If you set a fixture to 50% in cue number one, then it stays at 50% through all your
other cues - as long as you don't tell it to do something in the other cues.
Have a look at this table:
Cue
number
Fixture 1
Dim
1 50
2 50
3 50
4 50
5 50
6 50
Here we can see that fixture 1 is only stored in cue 1 (marked with bold, tracked values are displayed in a normal
font). But if you run cue 2 fixture number 1 is still at 50% - it is tracked.
If we store and merge 60% for fixture 1 in cue 3, it would look like this:
Cue
number
Fixture 1
Dim
1 50
2 50
3 60
4 60
5 60
6 60
So we changed the value for the fixture in cue 3 and now it’s tracking that value from cue 3.
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