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 additional search fil-
ters and the possibility to search for user attributes.
This works as follows:
1.Set up a couple of user attributes using the “View/Attributes” pop-up 
menu.
2.Click the Search button on the toolbar.
The Search pane is displayed in the lower part of the Pool window.
•By default, the search parameters available in the lower Pool pane are 
“Name” and “Location”.
When you move the mouse pointer over the “Name” text to the right of the name field, 
an arrow is displayed to the right. Click on it to open a pop-up menu.
Move the mouse pointer over the “Name” text to the right of the name field…
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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 pop-up menu to change 
the search option above the Location pop-up menu.
This way, you can choose e.g. to display the Size or Sample Rate parameter instead of 
the Name field.
5.If you want to display more search options, select the desired element 
from the Add filter submenu.
This allows you e.g. to add the Size or the Sample Rate parameters to the already dis-
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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 check box, text field or number. You 
can then specify the user attributes for each file, thus categorizing them 
further. (For a detailed description of user attributes, please refer to the 
chapter “The Pool” in the Operation Manual.) All the user attributes you 
created are automatically available as search criteria in the Pool and 
can be added as separate elements to the search pane (or replace the 
search criteria above the Location parameter, see above). This allows 
for a very detailed search, helping you to master even the largest, most 
chaotic sound database.
Pool key commands
•It is now possible not only to open, but also to close the Pool window 
using a key command. By default, this is [Ctrl]/[Command]+[P], but you 
can change this as usual in the Key Commands dialog (Project page).
Video
When working with video in Nuendo, video files are displayed as 
events/clips on the video track, with thumbnails representing the 
frames in the film (if the option “Show Video Thumbnails” is activated 
in the Preferences dialog). In the previous program versions, these 
were calculated in real time and had to be redrawn during e.g. scroll-
ing or moving. As this does consume quite a lot of processor power, 
the reaction sometimes seemed sluggish. To remedy this, you now 
have the possibility to generate a thumbnail cache file which will be 
used in situations requiring a lot of processor power. This is a very 
handy new feature, allowing you to economize system performance 
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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 window will be displayed 
showing you the progress and the estimated time for the process.
The thumbnail cache file is created.
After the cache file is created, the window will be closed and the 
video clip is inserted as usual. When you now start video playback 
and perform processor consuming operations, the thumbnail file is 
used to display the video frames in the Project window. When enough 
processor power is available, the “real” calculated thumbnail frames 
are displayed again.
• The generated thumbnail cache file will be stored in the same folder as 
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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 create a 
thumbnail cache file for.
2.Right-click (Win) or [Ctrl]-click (Mac) on the file to open the context 
menu and select “Generate Thumbnail Cache”.
Just as when creating the file during import, the status window opens (see above).
After the file is created, the window will be closed and the thumbnail 
cache file is used when necessary (see below).
Please note that the cache file will not be automatically updated if a 
video file is edited. Whenever you change a video file (e.g. in a video ed-
iting application), you need to create a new thumbnail cache file manu-
ally, as described above.
When exactly is the cache file used?
The cache file is used in situations where the processor load is very 
high and the correct redrawing or real-time calculation might use sys-
tem resources necessary for editing or processing. When the cache 
file is used and you zoom in on the thumbnails, you will see that they 
are in a lower resolution, i. e. the pictures are not as clean as when they 
are calculated. When the processes that rely heavily on the computer 
CPU are finished, the frames will automatically be calculated again, i.e. 
the program switches automatically between real-time calculation of 
the pictures and the usage of the cache file.
The above paragraphs apply only if “Show Video Thumbnails” is acti-
vated in the Preferences dialog, i.e. if thumbnails are displayed in the 
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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 active staff in a selected system has violet lines.
Showing/Hiding the custom colors
If you have specified colors for notes (or other elements) in the score 
(see the separate pdf document “Score Layout and Printing”), the score 
coloring may become confusing as you might e.g. mistake colored 
notes for selected notes and vice versa. Therefore, you have now the 
possibility to hide (ignore) all color settings you specified for the score:
To hide the color settings you specified, simply click the “Hide Colors” 
button on the Score editor toolbar.
Click the “Hide Colors” button to hide all your color settings.
• If the custom colors are hidden in the Score editor, only the selection 
indicator colors are used, as described above.
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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).
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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 supported for the following devices:
• Steinberg Houston
• Mackie Control
• Mackie HUI
• Yamaha DM 2000
• CM Motormix
• SAC2K
For these remote control devices, an extra display page has been 
added in the Inserts section for the selected channel.
This page is called User and is displayed as the 9th insert page for 
audio channels and as the 5th insert page for MIDI channels. It allows 
you to control the parameters assigned to your user device panel from 
your remote control device. 
						

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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 to Nuendo via a Time Base device, click the corre-
sponding numbered button on the panel.
The button lights up, indicating that the corresponding audio track is record enabled.
3.Set the locators in Nuendo to encompass the audio section you want 
to transfer.
4.Click the Auto Edit button on the Time Base 9-Pin device panel.
This is the button to the right of the transport controls.
The device will automatically go to a position just before the left loca-
tor, start playback, activate recording at the left locator and punch out 
at the right locator. Assuming you have connected the proper outputs 
from Nuendo to the correct inputs of the tape machine, the audio sec-
tion will be played back in Nuendo and recorded on the audio tracks 
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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 preroll and/or postroll for 
the auto edit function.
You can also click directly in the value field and enter the desired pre/postroll value 
manually.