Steinberg Nuendo 3.1 User Manual

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Pool Operations
The extended search functionality in the Pool
A number of new features have been added to the Search pane in the 
Pool window. When you click the Search button in the Pool toolbar, a 
lower Pool pane is displayed, allowing you to search for files on your 
hard disk or other media. This is described in detail in the chapter 
“The Pool” in the Operation Manual. The new program version allows 
for a more extensive search, including a range of...

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3.When you click on “Name”, the Extended Search pop-up menu opens.
This contains six options determining which settings will be displayed above the Loca-
tion parameter (Name, Size, Bitsize, Channels, Sample Rate or Date) as well as all the 
user attributes you specified (in this example two: Vocals and Drum Loops, see below) 
and the Add Filter and Presets submenus.
The pop-up menu with the extended search options.
4.Select one of the topmost 6 options in the...

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It is also possible to further refine the Search options by including 
your user attributes to the Search criteria:
•When user attributes have been defined, these will also appear on the 
pop-up menu (see above).
This is handy when you have a large number of audio files in the Pool. 
You can set up user attributes via the View/Attributes pop-up menu on 
the toolbar. These attributes will then get their own columns in the Pool. 
Each attribute can be defined as...

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Generating thumbnail cache files during video import
When you import a video file into Nuendo 3.1, you will find that the ad-
ditional option “Generate Thumbnail Cache” is available on the Import 
dialog. 
The Generate Thumbnail Cache option activated in the Import Video dialog.
When you activate “Generate Thumbnail Cache” in the Import video 
dialog and click “Open”, a thumbnail cache file will be created before 
the file is inserted in the Project window. A...

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Generating thumbnail cache files from within the Pool
When you have video files without thumbnail cache files (e.g. if you did 
not create a thumbnail cache file during import, if you imported the file 
by drag & drop or if you are working with an older project), you always 
have the possibility to generate the thumbnail cache file at a later stage. 
This is done from within the Pool.
Proceed as follows:
1.Open the Pool window and locate the video file you want to...

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Score editor operations
About the selection indicators
With version 3.1 of the program, the display of selected elements in 
the Score editor has changed. The following applies:
•Selected events are displayed in red.
•The active staff has blue lines and a blue rectangle to the left.
Please note that you can use this blue rectangle to select, move or edit the active staff.
•A selected system (grand staff) is indicated by a red line regrouping 
the staves.
•The...

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The Set Note Info dialog
The Set Note Info dialog now contains an option called “No Flag/
Beam”. Activate this to hide the flags or beams of the selected note(s).
The No Flag/Beam option in the Set Note Info dialog.  

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Remote Control
Accessing user panel parameters via remote 
control devices
Nuendo allows you to control external MIDI devices through user de-
vice panels. When you have assigned project parameters to a device 
panel to be displayed in the Mixer (i.e. when creating the panel, you 
must select the Channel Strip Size option in the Add Panel dialog), 
you can now access these parameters through some of the remote 
control devices supported by Nuendo.
This feature is...

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Machine control
Auto Edit for Time Base 9-Pin devices
The Time Base 9-Pin control panel (which is opened when selecting 
Time Base 9-Pin from the Devices menu) provides an Auto Edit but-
ton to the right of the regular transport controls.
To use the Auto Edit function on the Time Base 9-Pin control panel, 
proceed as follows:
1.Make sure the Online button is activated.
2.To record enable an audio track in a 9-Pin device (e.g. a video recorder) 
that is connected...

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Setting Preroll and Postroll for Auto Edit
For the Auto Edit function provided on the 9-Pin device panels and 
the Time Base 9-Pin device panel you can set individual preroll and 
postroll values. This is done in the Device Setup dialog.
1.Open the Device Setup dialog and select the 9-Pin Device or Time 
Base 9-Pin entry from the Devices list.
2.Click on the up/down arrow buttons in the Auto Edit Preroll or Auto 
Edit Postroll fields to set a new value for the...