Any track within Timeline+ can be resassigned to control one or more new targets, these can be any other pin groups or pins of the same data type. Tracks can have multiple control targets at once meaning a single layers timeline+ programming can be applied to multiple layers, both on the local machine and to other networked Hippotizers.
To assign control targets right click on the track in the Timeline+ editor and select ‘Edit Control Targets’, this will open up a new control targets window. In order to activate custom control targets you must toggle the notice to disable class inheritance.
Inheritance
If a track has a custom control target it no longer uses it parents control target information, therefore if I set a custom control target for the layer1/Geometry pin group and then reassign Layer1 to control Layer2, the Layer1/Geometry control target will still only control its custom target and will not inherit its target information from the parent Layer.
Upon reassigning a parent control target with children which already have a custom target, a warning window will appear explaining this. You maye continue while maintaing all control targets, cancel the current action or reset all the children control targets and continue with the new parent target.
Off-site Programming and Backup Systems
Reassigning tracks can be used to prep a show on a PREP or other machine, imported onto the show machine and each mix can then be re-assigned to the correct local mixes or networked mixes. Sharing control targets across machines on the same network opens up the opportunity for live backup machines which each share the same programming.
Custom Control Target Symbol
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