Steinberg Nuendo 4 Manual
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211 Surround sound Additional parameters (Standard mode) Center Level. This determines how center source signals should be reproduced by the front speakers. With a value of 100%, the center speaker will provide the center source. With a value of 0%, the center source will be provided by the ghost image created by the left and right speakers. Other values will produce a mix between these two methods. Divergence Controls. The three divergence controls determine the attenuation curves used when...
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212 Surround sound Under Windows you can also export a 5.1 surround mix to a file in Windows Media Audio Pro format. This is an encoding format tailored for 5.1 surround – see “Windows Media Audio Pro files (Windows only)” on page 442. You can also export a surround mix to a Dolby Digital AC3 file or a DTS file, if you have the Steinberg Dolby Dig- ital Encoder or the Steinberg DTS Encoder (both optional, separate plug-ins) installed in your system. Please go to www.steinberg.net for details. For...
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214 Automation Introduction In essence, automation means finding and recording, for each and every moment of your project, the right values for a particular mixer parameter. When you create your final mix, you won’t have to worry about having to adjust this particular parameter control yourself – Nuendo will do it for you. Automation is a key feature when mixing audio data in complex, multi-track projects. Whether you want to mix a music project or if you are performing a feature-film re-re-...
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215 Automation These buttons light up as soon as there is a single en- abled Read or Write button on any channel/track within your project. When “All Automation to Read/Write Status” is dis- abled and you click on one of these buttons, all Read/ Write buttons on all tracks/channels are enabled. When “All Automation to Read/Write Status” is enabled, this means that at least one of the Read/Write buttons on one of the channels of your project is enabled. When “All Automation to Read/Write Status” is...
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216 Automation Editing curves on automation tracks offers a graphical overview in relation to the track contents and the time po- sition. This makes it easy to quickly change parameter values at specific points, without having to activate playback. For example, this method gives you a good overview if you have a voice-over or a dialog on one track and a music bed on another track, the level of which needs to be lowered by a specific amount every time the dialog occurs. By using write automation in...
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217 Automation The Automation panel The Automation panel is a floating window, similar to the Mixer and Transport panel. You can leave it open while you work – the Project window will always have the focus. To open the Automation panel, open the Project menu and select the Automation Panel option or click the Automa- tion Panel button on the Nuendo toolbar. The Automation panel gives you access to all automation options in Nuendo. By default, all seven sections are dis- played. You can change the...
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218 Automation When no automation data exists for a particular parame- ter, and you perform an automation pass for this parame- ter, its value at the moment when you start the automation pass is saved as the initial value. When you punch-out of the automation pass, it is this initial value to which the pa- rameter will return. This has one very important consequence: As soon as the initial value is set, the corresponding parameter is fully au- tomated, on this track, at any given timecode position of...
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219 Automation When you select one or more break-points of an auto- mation curve with the Arrow tool and press [Delete] or [Backspace], no gap is created. Instead, the selected break-points are deleted. The curve between the deleted points is replaced by a new line connecting the two points to the left and right of the deleted points. The “Terminator” setting You can “force” any automation track into using virgin ter- ritory, by defining any automation break-point on the auto- mation curve as the...
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220 Automation Touch Typically, you would use Touch mode in situations where you want to make a change lasting only a few seconds to an already set up parameter. As the name implies, Touch will write automation data only for as long as you actually touch a parameter control – punch-out occurs as soon as you release the control. After punch-out, the control will return to the previously set value. The Return Time setting (see “Return Time” on page 229) determines how long it takes for the parameter...