Camera Tours

To run a camera tour, click the Start Camera Tour button in the Tours And Sequences group on the Macros & Tours menu.

The Cameras Tours dialog appears.

Select a camera tour from the Select Camera Tour drop-down menu. All available camera tours are included in the menu.

If you have more than one monitor configured for your workstation, select a monitor from the Monitor drop-down menu. The Start and Start Multiple buttons become enabled.

Click Start. The tour is added to the list in the Running Camera Tours section of the dialog.

To stop a tour, select it in the Running Camera Tours list and click the Stop button (it will become enabled).

To run more than one camera tour concurrently, click Start Multiple.

Under Available Tours, left-click a camera tour and click > to select it for concurrent camera tour running.

Repeat until all required camera tours appear under Selected Tours. Alternatively, click >> to select all available tours.

Click Ok.

To stop multiple running camera tours, press and hold the Ctrl key while selecting them under Running Camera Tours.

Changing a Camera Tour

To change a tour, select it in the list and click the Change button (it will become enabled). The Change Tour dialog appears.

The upper panel in the dialog contains all camera preset positions currently in the tour. You can enable or disable them by clicking the respective buttons. (When a button is in the recessed position, it is enabled.)

The lower panel contains presets that you can add to the tour. One at a time, select the presets that you want to add, and click Add after each selection. When you click a preset button, the Add button becomes enabled.

Click Save when you are finished adding presets.

If you want to make further changes to the tour, click the Advanced button. The following screen appears.

In this screen, you can change monitors, change the dwell time between presets, and see all available cameras for the tour.

If you want to change presets in a more advanced manner, click Details.

You can elect to randomly select presets by checking the Select preset at random checkbox.

The Preset drop-down menu offers the following preset selection options

Preset Option	Description
Use all preset numbers available for the camera type	All presets compatible with the camera type are automatically added to the tour.
Set a range of preset numbers to be used	Only the range of preset numbers are added to the tour.
Select particular presets to be used	Select individual preset numbers to add.

If you select Use all preset numbers available for the camera type, click OK. The presets are automatically added to the tour.

If you select Set a range of preset numbers to be used, Minimum and Maximum fields appear in the Preset Selection area.

Enter beginning and ending values for the preset numbers that you want and click OK.

If you select Select particular presets to be used, select each preset that you want from the Available Presets column on the left side of the dialog and click the forward arrow button, as shown in the following screenshot.

The selected presets are added to the Selected Presets column on the right side of the dialog. You can use the double forward arrows to select all available presets. If you want to move presets back to the Available Presets column, use the back arrows.

When you are finished selecting presets, click OK.

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