Is there a way to re-record a music clip's hover preview? [SOLVED]
It took me some time to pinpoint what behaviour I was observing here.
My first observation was that the orchestral bass drum track wasn't playing in the hover preview of a music clip. Was the behaviour "orchestral bass drum doesn't play in music clip hover previews"? No, an experiment where I created a music clip with only an orchestral bass drum track disproved that - the orchestral bass drum track played as expected in the hover preview.
Was it "only first stamped instrument plays in music clip hover previews"? No, an experiment where I created a music clip with multiple instruments disproved that - all instruments played as expected in the hover preview.
It wasn't until I edited that music clip with multiple isntruments and deleted an instrument that I discovered what was really going on. The deleted instrument still played in the hover preview, which led to the conclusion: the hover preview of a music clip is "write once". Once you've saved and exited the element, that's it - no do overs for what the hover preview sounds like.
Is there a workaround for this?
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From editing the creation, pause, and click "save version." The sound thumbnail shows on the left, with a button to edit the audio preview below it. Click on that. It shows you audio that was played while editing (last 30 seconds I think?). You can drag a window to select a few seconds from that recording, press a button to preview that selection, or another button to play the old preview.
If there was no audio played while editing, it'll ask if you want to play the scene to record some audio to use for the preview.
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TAPgiles Yes, that solved the problem. "Save version" isn't an interface that I've used much - I think the last time I used it was at the end of early access when Mm advised us to save private online versions of everything that we had saved local only.
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Ah, yeah it's not clear that you should look there, to be fair. I use "save version" all the time though; I save online privately pretty much every time. Safer to have that as a backup in case the local stuff goes wrong...
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TAPgiles Yes, I see the value of having an online backup. But doesn't saving privately online create a new version every time you do it? Using more and more server space that Mm don't have a plan for ever recovering? I'm sure the topic of Mm making a rod for their own backs regarding server space has been brought up here before.
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