Steinberg Nuendo 3.1 User Manual

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Networking
The Shared Projects dialog
There are two new buttons in the Shared Projects dialog, called “Merge 
Active Project to Selected Network Project” and “Download Selected 
Tracks”.
•When you click the “Merge Active Project to Selected Network Project” 
button, the currently active project will be merged with the selected 
Network project.
You will be asked whether you wish to download the shared project before merging. 
Clicking “No” allows you to simply...

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About opening projects with network settings
When you are loading a project containing Network settings and the 
Network is deactivated in Nuendo, the following dialog appears:
• Click “Activate” to activate the Network in Nuendo and try to reconnect the 
project.
• Click “Remove” to remove all Network settings. 
You can choose this when you do not want to work in the network any longer. 
Note that can also be handy if you have e.g. older projects with corrupt...

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• For this to work, the Master project has to have been saved once. If the 
project was not saved before being unexpectedly disconnected, the set-
tings are lost and the participants cannot be automatically reconnected.
• Please note that if you are unsure about the state of connection, it might 
be a good idea to unshare the project and to submit it as new Network 
project, in order to avoid conflicts (see also the description of the “Verify 
communication”...

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General improvements
Recovery of audio recordings after system 
failure
Stability and reliability of Nuendo have further improved with the re-
lease of version 3.1.
Normally, when a computer crashes, all changes made to your current 
project since you last saved it will be lost. Usually, there is no quick 
and easy way to recover your work.
With Nuendo 3.1, when your system crashes while you are recording 
(because of a power cut or other mishap), you will find...

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Working with film transfers 

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Background
Framerates
Since Nuendo has been created from the ground up as a total media 
production system, it must be capable of working with all different 
types of video and film framerates.
Standard framerates
There are several framerate standards in use today. They are as follows:
• 23.98 frames per second (23.98 fps) used for cinema film to NTSC transfer.
• 24 frames per second (24 fps) used for cinema film cameras.
• 25 frames per second (25 fps) used for...

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The audio recorded along with the film must also have these speed 
changes applied to it in order to remain in sync with the picture once 
it has been transferred to video. Sometimes the speed change is ap-
plied at the same time as the film transfer and is recorded directly on 
the videotape. This allows the video editor to hear the audio along 
with the transferred video while editing.
These speed changes also result in pitch changes. Other artifacts can 
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The Telecine process
A telecine machine is the device used to transfer film to videotape. It 
transfers images from each frame of film to frames of video in a very 
specific way. Having a clear understanding of this process will help al-
leviate the confusion surrounding pull-up and pull-down sample rates 
and keeping film audio in sync.
Film frames vs. video fields
One of the first things that needs to be understood is how video sig-
nals are formatted in general....