User's Guide

Using SEQUENCER
FasTrac Millennium User’s Guide – May 2003
time lapse to electronic memory. This allows the system to display these frames at a higher
speed upon recall. This operation may take several seconds.
2. SEQUENCER displays a window that describes the first event. This
window also has three command buttons: Next, NonStop, and Abort.
 Next displays the next event. During the sequence, the machine
will pause before each zoom or time lapse to load the event's
frames. SEQUENCER displays the Loading Frames message each
time that this occurs.
 NonStop displays the ensuing events without pausing. You may select NonStop button
at any time during the sequence execution to display the remainder of the sequence
without pausing.
 Abort exits from the sequence review function.
5.1.6 Exiting SEQUENCER
EXIT simply exits SEQUENCER. This command removes the SEQUENCER panel and enables
the functions that are not sequence related. You may use the EXIT command any time that it is
visible. Your sequence and event data are saved. If SEQUENCER is busy, such as when creating
a zoom or prompting the operator for input, EXIT will have no effect.
5.2 Using SEQUENCER with Zooms and Pans
Zooms and pans are special groups of .bmp picture files that you use to create a zoom or pan
effect. In the case of zooms, the map's center remains the same, while the range decreases to
create a zooming-in effect. (The range may increase instead of decreasing when you zoom
outward.) In the case of pans, the map's range stays the same but the center point changes to
create a panning effect. You may also combine the zoom and pan effects by allowing the map’s
center and range to change at the same time to create a simultaneous zooming and panning effect.
Frequently, we refer to zooms and pans separately, but a pan is merely a zoom with a center point
that changes considerably more than its range.
You can create the same effect for non-SEQUENCER zooms and pans by
using the Smooth Transitions feature, found on the View Main panel.
The following conditions must exist before you start this operation:
 You must have already created the view at which you want to start and the view at
which you want to end. You cannot create views from inside the zoom function: you
can select only from pre-saved views. See Section 3.4.1 for information on creating
views.
 It is important to use a meaningful naming convention when you create your zooms,
so that you can recognize and use them in the future. We highly recommend
descriptive names. Assume that you might have a start with a 150-mile map centered
over Huntsville, Alabama, and name it HSV 150. You then zoom in to a 5-mile map
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