Pistol Idle Animation has different location during play than Animation Preview

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Hi.
I am following along with this tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Q57Yso9mM&t=3484s

Around the 1 hr mark, I start to test the pistol Idle animation. My animation preview looks like this,

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However, when i play test the pistol idle animation looks like this,

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UE5 5.6.1 is being used with first person template. The character tree looks like this,

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Does anyone why this is happening and how to fix?

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Ok, what you do is you move your pistol down the arm even if it looks wrong, because sometimes the anim preview is a little off.

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I do think this is the quick dirty fix, but is there way to adjust the anim preview to align well?

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Not that I would know of. A lot of people use this trick because of ue5 sockets being, well, weird.

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This does fix the issue, but I think there might be a bigger problem. Your animations that require precision will be impacted since its just a guessing game for socket attachment. But regardless, Ill mark solved.