Martin TRACKPOD Getting Started page 26

make a "bounding rectangle" which selects any items within it. Clicking
outside of an item will deselect it. With the selection tool you may move
an item by clicking and dragging or you may click and drag on a control
handle to resize the item.
Region tool- Draws a region or zone on the stage floor (click and drag
the mouse). This is useful to specify different areas of the stage where
you might want something to happen. For instance, you may want some
followspots to only be operative when the performer is within a certain
region.
Riser tool - Creates risers or ramps on the stage floor (click twice to
specify the width and length, move the cursor up or down and click
again to set the height). Risers allow the software to automatically
compensate for different stage heights so that it may point the
followspots at the right height when the performer is over them.
Wall tool - Creates a wall (multiple clicks to set start and end points and
right click to set a height). When a TrackPod points at a wall it will
automatically direct the followspots to go up the wall.
Focus point - Creates a single point on the stage which may be used to
quickly direct followspots at it.
Cross-fade line tool - Creates a line and area over which followspots
will automatically cross-fade (click twice to specify the line length,
move the cursor up or down and click again to set the width. This is
useful in large stages, for instance, so that followspots that are closer to
a performer automatically take over when he or she is close by. For
example, imagine you had calibrated 30 Mac2000s and that you draw a
cross-fade line on the top view so that 20 of them are on the right and 10
on the left of the line. When the performer is on the right of the stage the
20 followspots will illuminte him but as he crosses to the left side of the
stage automatically the other 10 followspots will cross-fade and pick
him up. The width of the line determines how quickly the followspots
will cross-fade.
Erase tool - Click on any item to erase it. Tip: to erase you may also
select the item and press the "delete" key in the keyboard.
Riser rotate - Rotates risers along any pivoting point (click once to
choose a pivoting point and click again to accept a rotation). Tip: you
may rotate risers also by selecting an angle in the Riser inspector.
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