Steinberg Nuendo 3 Operation Manual
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NUENDO Synchronization 25 – 591 •“Display Follows Locating Device”. This is a very useful option for tape-based machines that take a certain amount of time to locate to new positions. When this option is checked and sync is enabled, the project cursor in Nuendo will reflect the position of the 9-pin machine’s transport as it locates to different positions. For instance, if you place the cursor several minutes ahead of the current tape position, Nuendo can immediately locate there but the tape machine...
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NUENDO 25 – 592 Synchronization 9-Pin Preferences There are several options for 9-pin control in the Preferences dialog on the Transport–Machine Control page. They are as follows: •“Machine position follows mouse edits”. When this option is activated and the transport in Nuendo is set to “Edit Mode,” the 9- pin device will track the edits you make with the mouse in the project window. Actions such as adjusting event boundaries, moving fade handles and even selecting events will cause the 9-pin...
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NUENDO Synchronization 25 – 593 Audio Layback for 9-Pin Devices Nuendo has some special features for working with 9-Pin devices (typically video decks). These allow you to transfer audio to the 9-Pin device by recording it from Nuendo, manually or automatically. A typi- cal application would be audio layback – if you have edited audio for a video in Nuendo and want to transfer the audio back to the audio track(s) in the video deck, at the correct positions. This assumes that Machine Control of the...
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NUENDO 25 – 594 Synchronization 7.Set the locators in Nuendo to encompass the audio section you want to transfer. 8.Click the Auto Edit button in the 9-Pin device panel. This is the button to the right of the transport controls. •If the Auto Edit function is supported by the 9-Pin device, the device will automatically go to a position just before the left locator, start playback, activate recording at the left locator and punch out at the right locator. Assuming you have connected the proper outputs...
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NUENDO Synchronization 25 – 595 In the Project Setup dialog are two settings for frame rates: •The Frame Rate pop-up is automatically adjusted to the frame rate of the incoming timecode. There is an exception to this when you are synchronizing Nuendo to MIDI Timecode: If you have selected 29.97 fps or 30 dfps as Frame Rate in Nuendo, this selection will be kept, since these frame rates are not included in the MTC format. The Project Setup dialog contains six frame rates to choose from: •The Display...
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NUENDO 25 – 596 Synchronization 3.When you’re done, click OK to close the dialog and save the settings. The Frame Rate you specified will now be the one used when you se- lect “60 fps (user)” in the Display Format pop-up. Sync Options The following options are available in the Application section in the Synchronization Setup dialog: Drop Out Frames On an analog tape with timecode, dropouts may occur. If a drop-out is very long, Nuendo may (temporarily) stop. In the Dropout Time field you can set how...
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NUENDO 26 – 598 VST System Link Introduction VST System Link is a network system for digital audio that allows you to have several computers working together in one large system. Un- like conventional networks it does not require Ethernet cards, hubs, or CAT-5 cables; instead it uses the kind of digital audio hardware and cables you probably already possess in your studio. VST System Link has been designed to be simple to set up and oper- ate, yet give enormous flexibility and performance gains in...
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NUENDO VST System Link 26 – 599 Preparations Requirements The following equipment is required for VST System Link operation: •Two or more computers. These can be of the same type or use different operating systems – it doesn’t matter. For example, you can link an Intel-based PC to an Apple Macintosh without problems. •Each computer must have audio hardware with specific ASIO drivers, installed and working. •The audio hardware must have digital inputs and outputs. Of course, to be able to connect the...
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NUENDO 26 – 600 VST System Link Making connections Below, we will assume that you are connecting two computers. Should you have more than two computers, it’s still best to start with two and add the others one by one once the system is working – this makes troubleshooting easier if you run into problems. For two com- puters, you will need two digital audio cables, one in each direction: 1.Connect a digital audio cable from the digital output of Computer 1 to the digital input of Computer 2. 2.Connect...