what are tracks

[Chris W]

I'm a newb and I can't remember what the manual said about tracks I can't get to it @ the moment? thanks

[PaulXmas]

I am surprised no one has replied yet...

I am new so I have limited knowlege on tracks.

When I create a sequence my timings are 0.10 (one tenth of a second).

Some times you want something to happen at say a fifth of a second.

I create a second track with no timing (free form I think it is called) then right click and devide it into 1500 (undo and pick another if it doesn't look right).

Then I can devide the cell I am working on down some more until I get the ellement to turn on at the right moment.

Not sure if that helps or not...

[bob]

A track is a list of channels and/or RGB channels.

One of the main uses for tracks used to be so that you could have different sets of timings on the same channels - each track could have different timings associated with it, and you could have the same channels in two (or more) different tracks. But tracks are not needed for this anymore; now you can use timing grids instead, and just switch which timing grid is displayed on your single track. You can still use multiple tracks for this purpose, but (in my opinion) you'd just be making the sequence more complicated for no real benefit.

What you might want to use tracks for now is just to group channels together in any particular way that strikes you as useful - for example, perhaps you might want all the channels for a megatree in their own track - or for being able to see two different portions of your channel list at once (by having two tracks displayed).

Another use for tracks, which I believe is more rare, is that in an animation sequence, you can have different lengths for different tracks. For example, you might want a track dedicated to an animated snowman or something, which is just three seconds long (and which will just loop over and over until the "real" end of the sequence is reached, or until the show stops the sequence). Careful doing so, though - make sure that no individual channel is shared between two tracks that have different lengths, or strange things might happen.

You can see the latest copy of the help file online here:

http://lightorama.com/help/

And the help file page on tracks in particular here:

http://lightorama.com/help/index.html?tracks.htm

[PaulXmas]

Dough forget what I said!

Too early and 2 different things!