A Mimic Mystery

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A use Mimic Live in 64 bit DAZ to recoed a voice track.  I don't like it, and I want to get rid of it.  I do EDIT | FIGURE | CLEAR ANIMATION.  The mouth closes.  I scrub through the timeline and I see the mouth is still animated, although there are no keyframes on the Timeline or keyMate.  OK.  I click in the Max frame number box and enter 1.  Both the Timeline and keyMate confirm there is inly one frame.  It is completely impossible, in my thinking, that any animation could be left in there - right?  So I press Start Capturing and I begin speaking.  As the frames are added, I see the mouth moving as if it had a mind of its own.  It is the ghost of the undead prior lipsync attempt, come back to haunt me.

I learned about timelines ages ago in Flash.  The idea that actions can happen yet not show up in the timeline is unsettling to me.  Help me with this please.

• How can I get back to a clean file?  What do I need to do to wipe the animation?

I need to get past this so I can move on to my next failure.

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OK, I think I almost have it figured out.

You can see the visemes in the Animate2 Timeline, if you stretch it out enough.  In fact, if you look at the list of visemes as you scrub along the timeline, you can see which ones were used, and how much, and you can fine-tune them!  I had no idea this was possible!

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Well, this just isn't a lipsync crowd, is it.  I can't blame you.