Steinberg Nuendo 3 Operation Manual

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3.Make sure the correct tracks are set to linear time base or musical 
time base, respectively.
In our example we want the video track and the audio track with a commentary voice-
over to be linear time based (as well as the marker track, if you are using one). All other 
tracks should be set to musical time base. You change this by clicking the time base 
button in the Track list or Inspector.
4.Set up the Grid Type pop-up menu as desired.
When you click with...

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6.Click in the event display at the start of bar 33 and drag to the desired 
position in the video.
As mentioned above, this can mean dragging to a position indicated by the thumbnails 
on the video track, to a marker on the Marker track or to a time position on an additional 
ruler track.
When you drag, you will see the ruler being scaled – and the music 
tracks will follow.
7.Release the mouse button.
If you look in the ruler at the beginning of the project,...

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You need to create a “lock point” – a tempo event at the first cue po-
sition:
9.Press [Shift] and click with the Time Warp tool in the event display at 
the cue position.
In our case this is bar 33.
As you can see, a tempo event (with the same value as the first one) is 
added at that position.
10.Now match the next musical cue to the next video position, by drag-
ging the musical position to the desired time position as before.
The new tempo event is edited...

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Using the Time Warp tool in an audio editor
Using the Time Warp tool in the Sample Editor or Audio Part Editor is 
different from using it in the Project window, in the following ways:
• When you use the Time Warp tool, a tempo event is automatically inserted at 
the beginning of the edited event or part – this tempo event will be adjusted 
when you warp the tempo grid with the tool. This means that material before 
the edited events won’t be affected.
• There...

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5.Press [Shift] and click in the event at the position of the first downbeat 
(the start of the bar).
When you press [Shift], the pointer turns into a pencil. Clicking adds a tempo event at 
the first downbeat – when you later adjust the tempo with the Time Warp tool, the first 
downbeat will stay in place. Note: if the event started exactly on the first downbeat (no 
audio before the “one”) you wouldn’t need to do this. This is because a tempo event is...

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8.Check the following bars and locate the first position where the audio 
drifts from the tempo.
Now, if you simply adjusted that beat in the tempo grid to match the 
beat in the recording, the tempo event at the first downbeat would be 
changed – this would ruin the match in the previous bars! We need to 
lock these by inserting a new tempo event.
9.Locate the last beat that’s in sync.
This would be the beat just before the position where the audio and tempo...

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Using the Time Warp tool in a MIDI editor
This is very similar to using the tool in an audio editor:
• When you use the Time Warp tool, a tempo event is automatically inserted at 
the beginning of the edited part – this tempo event will be adjusted when you 
warp the tempo grid with the tool. This means that material before the edited 
part won’t be affected.
• There is only one mode for the Time Warp tool in the MIDI editors: When you 
use the tool, the...

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The Project Browser 

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Background
While the Project window and the editors display events and other 
data graphically, the Project Browser window provides a list based 
representation of the project. This allows you to view and edit all 
events on all tracks by using regular value editing in a list.
Opening the Project Browser
You open the Project Browser by selecting “Browser” from the Project 
menu. The Browser window can be open while you are working in other 
windows; any changes made in...