OSC message to unload preview monitor's content

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ynohtna
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OSC message to unload preview monitor's content

Post by ynohtna »

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?

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Re: OSC message to unload preview monitor's content

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If you have a blank cell (I usually leave Column 1 blank) you can just send the command to preview that cell

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Re: OSC message to unload preview monitor's content

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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 "leave at least one clip slot empty for the de-preview feature to work" leaks developer hacks onto all the users.

I'd be okay with selecting over OSC a clip or layer with zero or negative column/layer index resulting in the preview eject, but my tests show that Avenue - understandably so - discards the messages immediately for not having a valid destination.

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