Steinberg Nuendo 3 Getting Started Manual

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5.Finally, on the Appearance–Work Area page, you can adjust the 
brightness and grid contrast in the Project window and editors. 
Adjust the sliders to your liking and click Apply to apply your settings.
6.Click OK to close the Preferences dialog.
Applying track colors
You can use color scheming for easier overview of certain tracks and 
events in the Project window. Applying colors is divided into two areas; 
track and event colors.
•A track color is reflected in...

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In the Inspector, the track name bar at the top becomes light grey and 
a small arrow appears to the right of the track name.
3.Click the arrow to bring up the color palette.
This palette or color set can be edited in the Event Color dialog.
4.Pick a color to apply it to the selected track.
•As you can see, the chosen track color is reflected in the Inspector title 
bar, in the Track list, and in any parts or events on the selected track.
Click here to bring up the...

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•If you open the Mixer, the track color is reflected in the field above the 
name for the corresponding channel. 
You can also set the track color from the Mixer by clicking in this field.
Colorizing parts and events
There is a Color tool (the paint bucket icon) on the Project window 
toolbar that can be used to colorize parts and events.
The Color tool.
Just below the Color tool there is a small strip. Click this to bring up 
the standard color palette. If you...

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•If you press [Alt]/[Option] the Color tool cursor becomes a pipette, 
which can be used to select a color by clicking on a part/event.
•An alternative way to colorize parts and events is by selecting them, 
and then picking a color from the Color selector on the toolbar.  

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Creating a template
If you often work with the same types of Projects, it might be a good 
idea to set up a track layout and then save it as a template. That way, 
you can select the saved template from the New Project dialog each 
time you create a new project, and start with your preferred layout and 
settings.
Let’s say for example that you work with movie post production projects 
a lot and want to create a template with a convenient track layout. You 
could...

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Adding tracks
1.Right-click (Win) or [Ctrl]-click (Mac) anywhere in the Track list, and se-
lect “Add Multiple Tracks…” from the pop-up menu that appears.
A dialog appears, allowing you to specify the type of tracks, the track configuration and 
the number of tracks.
2.Pull down the respective pop-up menus in the dialog, set “Track” to 
Audio, “Configuration” to “Mono” and “Count” to 8.
3.Click OK.
Eight mono audio tracks are now added to the project.
•By default,...

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•To move a track from the lower track list to the upper (or vice versa), 
right-click (Win) or [Ctrl]-click (Mac) it in the track list and select 
“Toggle Track List”.
Now, let’s see, what else do we need for a movie post production 
project? We could use a Marker track and a Ruler track, both of which 
should also be placed in the upper track list.
•Marker tracks can contain Markers, which can be used for locating and jump-
ing to certain positions.
•Ruler tracks...

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Setting up your work space
Before saving the template, you should position the windows the way 
you want them. You may want to hide unwanted windows from view, 
position the Transport panel, maximize the Project window, etc. The 
open windows and their positions will be included in the template.
Saving the template
To create the template, pull down the File menu and select “Save as 
Template…”. A dialog appears, asking you to name the template. This 
could be a...

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Setting up Zoom presets
When working in the Project window and the editors, you will typically 
need to zoom in and out depending on what you’re doing. In the Project 
window, zooming can be done with the zoom sliders to the right, with 
the Zoom submenu on the Edit menu or with the magnifying glass tool 
(see page 73 for more about zooming).
Zoom presets are a handy way to toggle between different zoom set-
tings. In this example we will set up two presets: One...

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5.Click OK to save the zoom preset.
This will now be available on the horizontal zoom menu, from which it can be selected 
and applied.
6.Use the vertical and horizontal zoom sliders to zoom in for a detailed 
view, and repeat the procedure of saving the zoomed factor as a preset.
The preset could be called “Detailed”.
Now it will be possible to toggle between these two zoom factors 
simply by selecting the corresponding preset from the zoom menu.
Setting up...