Steinberg Cubase 5 Operation Manual

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23-bit audio (the least significant bit of this last channel 
will be used for networking). In practice this makes no dis-
cernible difference to the audio quality, since you will still 
have around 138 dB headroom on this channel.
To set things up, open the VST System Link panel:
1.Open the Device Setup dialog on the Devices menu.
2.Select VST System Link in the Devices list to the left.
3.Use the ASIO Input and ASIO Output pop-up menus 
to define which channel should be the...

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VST System Link sends and understands all transport 
commands, so you can play, stop, fast forward, rewind, 
etc. the entire network from one computer without a prob-
lem – try it! If you jump to a locator point on one machine, 
all other machines will also instantly jump to that locator 
point. You can even scrub on one computer and have the 
video and audio on another computer actually scrub right 
along with you.
Using MIDI
As well as supplying transport and sync control, VST Sys-...

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5.Go back to computer 1 and check the corresponding 
four VST System Link input busses.
If you start playback on computer 2, the audio should “appear” on the in-
put busses on computer 1. However, to mix these audio sources you 
need actual mixer channels.
6.Add four new stereo audio tracks on computer 1 and 
route these to the output bus you use for listening, e.g. to 
the analog stereo outputs.
7.For each of the audio tracks, select one of the four in-
put busses.
Now, each computer...

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4.Route the VST Instrument channel to the desired out-
put bus.
If you are using computer 1 as your main mixing computer, this would be 
one of the VST System Link output busses, connected to computer 1.
5.Create a new MIDI track in the Project window of 
computer 2, and assign the MIDI output of the track to the 
VST Instrument you created. 
6.Assign the MIDI input of the track to be VST System 
Link port 1.
Now, the MIDI track on computer 1 is routed to the MIDI track on com-
puter...

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Background
Cubase plays back video films in a number of formats. 
Under Windows, video playback can be done using one 
of three playback engines: Video for Windows, DirectS-
how or QuickTime 7.1. This ensures compatibility with as 
wide a range of video files as possible. The following file 
formats are supported: AVI, Windows Media Video (Cu-
base only: you can also import files in Windows Media 
Video Pro format), QuickTime and MPEG.
Under Mac OS X, QuickTime is always used as playback...

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Under Mac OS X, only the QuickTime playback engine 
is available, supporting the formats AVI, MPEG, Quick-
Time and DV. If your system has a FireWire port, there is 
also a FireWire option – see below.
Video quality in QuickTime
When you are using QuickTime as your video playback 
engine, you can select “High Quality” from the Video win-
dow context-menu, or “Use high-quality video settings 
when available” in the Device Setup dialog, Video Player 
page, in the Video Properties section for...

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Playing back video file using video hardware
Under Windows, multi-head graphics cards that support 
overlay functionality can be used to display the video pic-
ture on an external TV or computer monitor in full screen 
mode. The manufacturers nVIDIA and Matrox have work-
ing (and tested) solutions available. Check the card’s do-
cumentation for information on how it handles video 
output and how to set it up for multi-monitor display.
For Apple computers equipped with a FireWire port, you 
can...

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The generated thumbnail cache file will be stored in the 
same folder as the video file and will get the name of the 
file with the suffix “.videocache”.
Generating thumbnail cache files during video import
A thumbnail cache file will be created automatically before 
the file is inserted in the Project window, if:
the option “Generate Thumbnail Cache” in the Import 
Video dialog is activated, when you click “Open”.
you activated “Generate Thumbnail Cache on Import 
Video File” in the...

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When you have a video file in a format not supported by 
Cubase, use an external application to convert the file to a 
format that Cubase can import.
Extracting audio from a video file
If a video file contains audio, it can be extracted. Regard-
less of the audio format in the actual file, the resulting au-
dio file will always be in the format (Sample Rate and 
Record Format) that is specified for the Project in the Pro-
ject Setup dialog.
There are several ways to extract audio from a video...