Thank you for the response, Arvol. Selecting a blank clip is what I'm doing at the moment, but while it's an effective work-around in the short-term for my personal usage, it's still a hack. I'm working towards maybe releasing a version of my custom controller software and having to document "l...

There are OSC messages to load a specific clip or layer onto the preview monitor. (/composition/layers/X/clips/Y/select and /composition/layers/X/select both sent without arguments).

But is there a message to eject what is on the preview monitor?

I think that endpoint requires the parameter true encoded in the POST body, supplied as the requests.post method call's data or json keyword parameters.

Thanks, Zoltán. I found the log through Console.app and determined the bad plug-ins where from Cymatics. I've had their plug-ins crash on me before, so into the trash they go!

I've been experiencing Avenue crashing immediately upon startup this morning (Avenue 7.4.1 76771, MacOS Mojave 10.14.6). The only thing that has changed on my system since it booted fine was a bunch of old VST audio plug-ins that I installed yesterday (to extract some work from an old project). On a...