Remembering what
you did this time –
FOR THIS TIME,
AND for next time
We’re behind two of the pioneering tools for documenting show lighting,
letting you create a precise record of your show for the people
running it this time, or for when you all come back to it for that next production.
SPOT TRACK
The tool for followspots
SpotTrack is the tool designed and built for dealing with followspots – making cue sheets, updating them, printing them or distributing them electronically.
It was created when we got tired of people making do with Excel for this, with all the frustrations that entails particularly when trying to print individual cuesheets for each spot. SpotTrack makes the managing, updating and issuing all of this information quick and easy.
SpotTrack has been used on countless shows since it’s creation – big shows, small shows, everything in-between.
Best of all: each copy of SpotTrack sold supports one of the two major backstage charities, Backup Tech in the UK or Behind The Scenes in the US; you choose which.
FOCUS TRACK
INTEGRATED DOCUMENTATION OF YOUR SHOW’s LIGHTING
Launched way back in 2004, FocusTrack pioneered much of the way show lighting is documented these days: the software (rather than the programmer) figuring out which palettes are used in which cues, then controlling the console to turn each light on in each position to be recorded using digital photography. This meant shows could be documented quickly – often in just a single four hour session even for really complex shows. And that’s everything – moving lights and conventionals.
It can then add a picture of each cue, letting you see a complete state then break it apart into components when re-focussing on tour or in later productions. It is still unique in being able to show you focuses cue by cue as you work through a show rather than just palette by palette.
In the time since it has added support for new consoles (ETC Eos, MA grandMA2) and learnt new tricks. Want to know how much haze you’re running in the show? FocusTrack can figure it out. Want to know how much power your lighting uses for each show? FocusTrack can figure that out as well.
It’s a powerful tool that in its almost two decades has provided a precise record allowing the fast, accurate re-creation of some of the world’s most complex shows.