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8.9 Shared Preset Focuses
8.9.1 Storing a Shared Preset Focus
A Shared Preset Focus enables the user to program a particular Preset
Focus for one Fixture, which is then copied to all other Fixtures of that type.
This is very useful, because it means that you can use a single Fixture
before a show to program Preset Focuses for all Fixtures of that type. It also
means that if you add more lights to an existing show, you don’t have to
waste time programming new Preset Focuses for them.
Any Preset Focus that only has one Fixture Selected when it is stored is
automatically a Shared Preset Focus.
All the automatically created Preset Focus loaded while patching are
Shared Preset Focuses.
8.9.2 Editing a Shared Preset Focus
As soon as more than one Fixture is Selected while recording Edits into a
Shared Preset Focus, those Selected Fixtures revert to ordinary Preset
Focuses within that Attribute, while any remaining Fixtures will continue to
Share.
A dichotomy arises, however, when only one Fixture is Selected, because
you might want this Fixture to record the new Edits uniquely for itself, while
the rest of the Fixtures remain Sharing, or you may wish to use the Edits to
update the Shared information for all Fixtures.
To store an Edited Preset Focus for one Selected Fixture :
Or : to Edit the Preset Focus for all Fixtures.
Effectively the desk assumes that if you store the Edited Focus as normal,
that you wish to make the Fixture unique.
• Turn the Key to Program. Puts you in LIVE PROGRAM MODE.
• Select the appropriate Attribute Bank.
• Press the blue EDIT FOCUS button on the Program Select Bank.
• Press the Preset Focus ADD button or enter the Preset Focus number
and press ENTER.
• Select your Fixture and make the desired changes to the Preset Focus.
• Press the blue STORE FOCUS button on the Program Select bank. Puts
you in the EDIT SHARED FOCUS menu.
Either : to store your changes in that Fixture only
• Press the grey button or type a Preset Focus number as usual to store
the Focus.
• Press Softbutton A [ENABLE SHARED FOCUS] Press the grey button
or type a Preset Focus number as usual to store the Focus.