Steinberg Nuendo 3 Operation Manual

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Options
When you click the Save button, an Options dialog opens in which 
you can enter information about the file. This additional information 
(called the ID3 tag) will be embedded as text strings in the file, and 
can be displayed by some mp3 playback applications.
• For the information to be included in the file, you need to activate the 
“Insert Options” checkbox in the dialog.
Ogg Vorbis files
Ogg Vorbis is an open, patent-free audio encoding and streaming...

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Real Audio G2 files
Real Audio files (extension “.rm”) allow very high compression rates and 
can therefore be made very small. This makes the format especially use-
ful for downloading and streaming multimedia from the internet.
The following options are available for Real Audio files:
Coding and Content
This is where you specify the desired audio quality for the file. In the 
Real Audio G2 format, this information is divided in two pop-up menus: 
Coding (determining...

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The following options are available for Windows Media Audio files:
Attributes
This pop-up menu allows you to select a bit rate for the WMA file. As 
a rule, the higher the bit rate, the better the audio quality and the larger 
the file. For stereo audio, 96 kBit/s is often considered to give “good” 
audio quality.
Options
When you click the Save button, an Options dialog opens in which 
you can enter information about the title and author of the file, as well 
as...

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•Click the Options button to open a dialog in which you can make set-
tings for the Windows Media Audio files. When you have made the 
desired settings, click OK to encode the file.
The following options are available:
Input Stream
Here you set the sample rate (44.1, 48 or 96 khz) and the bit resolu-
tion (16 bit or 24 bit) of the encoded file. These should be set to 
match the sample rate and bit resolution of the source material. If no 
value matches that of your...

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•Mode
The WMA Pro encoder can use either a constant bit rate or a variable bit rate for en-
coding to 5.1 surround, or it can use lossless encoding for encoding to stereo. The op-
tions on this menu are as follows:
Note that if you encode to a surround file, it can only be played as in-
tended on computers using Windows XP, since no other Windows ver-
sion supports WMA surround. With other operating systems than XP, the 
surround file will instead be reproduced as a...

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•Bit Rate/Channels
This menu allows you to set the desired bit rate – from 128 kbps to 768 kbps, depend-
ing on the selected Mode (see above). If the Mode “Variable Bitrate with Quality” is 
used (see above), the menu allows you to select from six levels of desired quality, with 
10 being the lowest and 100 the highest. Generally, the higher the bitrate or quality 
you select, the larger the final file will be. The menu also shows the channel format (5.1 
or stereo)....

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• Off: If Quiet Mode is off, the dynamic range settings that were automatically 
calculated during the encoding will be used.
• Little Difference: If this is selected and you have not manually changed the dy-
namic range settings, the peak level will be limited to 6 dB above the average 
level during playback. If you have manually specified the dynamic range, the 
peak level will be limited to the mean value between the peak and average val-
ues you specified.
•...

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Synchronization 

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Background
What is synchronization?
Synchronization is said to exist when you make two pieces of equip-
ment agree on time or tempo and location. You can establish synchro-
nization between Nuendo and a number of other types of devices, 
including tape recorders and video decks, but also MIDI devices that 
“play back”, such as other sequencers, drum machines, “workstation 
sequencers” etc.
When you set up a synchronization system you must decide which 
unit is the master....