User Guide
Avolites Pearl 2000 Operators Manual - page 88
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Alternatively you can go through individual Attribute Banks, recalling Preset
Focuses and switching Fixtures OFF.
8.14 Changing the Focus Mask
You can no longer change the Focus Mask without going into the USER
SETTINGS menu. Unless you understand the Focus Mask completely, and
are totally confident of the results of changing it, you are advised not to
tamper with the default settings.
• Turn the Key to Program.
• Press Softbutton B [USER SETTINGS]. Puts you in the USER SETTINGS
menu.
8.15 Help and hints
Problem : I edited some Fixtures in a Preset Focus, and now some of the
other Fixtures seem to have changed.
Solution : You forgot to press the EDIT FOCUS button before you changed
the Preset Focus. You have now accidentally stored the state that your other
Fixtures were in when you made the Edits over their original values.
• Turn the Key to Program. Puts you in LIVE PROGRAM MODE.
• Select the LAMPS Attribute Bank.
• Press the blue EDIT FOCUS button on the Program Select Bank. The
Focus Mask will be displayed on the Attribute Bank LED’s. Lit LED’s in the Attribute Bank
buttons indicate selected banks. Turn banks on and off by pressing the Attribute Bank
Buttons.
• Press the Preset Focus for editing.
ALL THE FIXTURES IN THAT PRESET FOCUS WILL GO TO THEIR
PRESET FOCUS VALUES. THESE VALUES ARE PUT IN THE
PROGRAMMER PRIOR TO RE-RECORDING. See Section 1.6 The
Programmer.
• Switch OFF all the desired Attributes or Fixtures. (See section 4.8 The
OFF button)
• Press the blue STORE FOCUS button and restore the Preset Focus as
normal.
• Select the relevant Attribute Bank. Its LED lights up.
• Press Softbutton C [SET FOCUS MASK]. The current Focus Mask is
displayed on the LEDs of the Attribute Bank. The Prompt line confirms
the Attribute Bank Focus Mask being edited.
• Press the Attribute Bank buttons to select or deselect Attributes on the
Focus Mask. Lit LED’s in the Attribute Bank buttons indicate selected
banks. Turn banks on and off by pressing the Attribute Bank Buttons.
• Press ENTER to confirm the change. Puts you in the USER SETTINGS menu.