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Page 50 MacFinish 2D-USB and MF8.x software Hoofdstuk 7.2.3 : Recording extra participants after you saved the MacFinish file Sometimes you want to read the photofinish results IMMEDIATELY after one or two or ... athletes crossed the finish line, if you want to announce the OFFICIAL (=photofinish) results asap to the media (TV, radio and press). You could already do this, but to create one MacFinish file with ALL results, you needed to create the 'Result table' twice (once with the first two or three participants, and once with all participants). It is now possible to let the MacFinish software 'MERGE' the two parts together to one file, even if you already read some results in the 'results table'. WARNING: Never press the 'stop' button of the 'action' window, if there are still athletes running ! Otherwise you will loose the timing information for these athletes. Procedure to follow; 1. Record the start of the race, and the finish of the first 'x' athletes, but do NOT press the 'stop' button. 2. Press the 'save' button (or F11 if the function keys are enabled). Give a filename, and save the file on disk. 3. If you want, you can create a partial official result by filling the result table. 4. At the same time you can continuously record extra athletes that are finishing. 5. After the finish of the last athletes you can merge (add to the same file) the photo and time recording of these participants, by pressing the 'save' button (or F11 if the function keys are enabled) again. You will then see the following window on your screen. This window indicates that the MacFinish software already has a filename, and request you to confirm to merge the two data packets. The text message on that window informs you that an update on screen (of the result table) will only be done if you first have saved and closed the photo window, and then pressed the save button in the actions window.
MacFinish 2D-USB and MF8.x software Page 51 Hoofdstuk 7.2.4 : Recording of Electronic Split Times by means of the Finish Photocells By means of the small arrow pointing down in the Actions-window (bottom-right), you can 'open' the actions window, to be able to electronically record a split time using the photocells. As you can see, the box-window has now a 'Split timing' flag (disabled, this means inclusive a red cross), but is still in 'Arrival mode' (check box 'ON', see picture below). There is NO difference with this condition and the previous situation, before you further opened the actions window, or after you close the window again. Arrival mode, image recording, SPLIT timing disabled If you disable the arrival check box, no finish time can be displayed on a timing scoreboard, but a photo could be recorded ('Record' check box is still ON) . Split mode, image recording, SPLIT timing disabled If you now click on the 'split flag', the red cross is gone (left picture), to indicate that split timing is now enabled. During split timing mode, there can be no 'finish timing' mode, so the 'arrival' check box is out. The next signal of the photocells will initiate a split timing (time paused on the scoreboard for a predefined time), IF your arrival remote control box is set in “auto” position. For split timing you can choose to enable or disable the photo recording (see 2 pictures below). Split mode, image recording, SPLIT timing Enabled Split mode, NO image recording, SPLIT timing Enabled When the photocells are now interrupted by the leading athlete, (or you press 'F7' and the function keys are enabled in
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