Trackball And Mouse; Followspot Mode - MA SCANCOMMANDER User Manual

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Slow/Fast On/Off
Slow/Fast On/Off
Followspot in standard
operation mode
Fixing the followspot
mode
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3.3.4 Trackball and Mouse

An Atari compatible mouse or trackball makes control of movement very
comfortable. In standard operation mode, no follow spot fixed (see 3.3.3), the
mouse will always control the actual selected scans simultaneously. Unlike
the control via encoder, the mouse even works when Pan/Tilt is not selected in
direct access mode.
The mouse buttons switch the working modes, the new mode will be displayed
for one second in the centre of the display.
Right mouse button (outer buttons on the trackball):
Left mouse button (inner button on the trackerball)

3.3.5 Followspot mode

The Pan/Tilt calculation via the stage coordinates has the effect, that all
beams, starting at the same point, stay together during simultaneous opera-
tion. Outside the stage this effect looses part of its accuracy.
To have a real tracking of a person moving on stage, it is necessary to do the
movement initialization of the four corners at about 1.5 m height, otherwise the
beams will perfectly light up the feet of the person, but not the body. Therefore
the corners have to be marked by a microphone stand or something similar.
In standard operation mode, the mouse controls the actual selected scans.
Using the EXTRA-FOLLOW feature, it is possible to fix one group of scans to
the mouse. Any change of the scan selection while controlling colours, gobos
or any other feature, will not affect the follow selection. The mouse will go on to
control their scans.
Additionally the scans, fixed to the follow mode, won't be affected by any
memory or playback program.
EXTRA LED has to be switched on
FOLLOW
FREEZE FOLLOW inverted
MODE PROGRAM inverted
Switches the mouse on and off, to avoid accidental
movements.
Mouse speed changes between slow and fast.
The display changes to FOLLOW FIX Menu with the
list of Pan/Tilt coordinates.
SCAN Selection
Selection of scans, which shall be fixed to follow
mode.
The selected scans are fixed to follow mode.
Standard operation mode. The mouse always con-
trols the actual selection of scans.
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