Steinberg Nuendo 5 Manual

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Using the Details view
The Details view is displayed below the regular marker list. 
It shows the details for the marker that is selected in the 
marker list. If more than one marker is selected, only the 
details for the first marker of the selection are shown.
1.To open the Details view, click the “Show Details 
View” button.
The “Set up Attribute Columns for Details” button appears next to the 
“Set up Attribute Columns button”. 
2.Click the “Set up Attributes Columns for Details”...

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Reassigning marker IDs
Sometimes, especially when setting markers on the fly, 
you may forget or miss to set a marker. When added later, 
this marker’s ID will not correspond to its position on the 
marker track. Therefore, it is possible to reassign the IDs 
for all markers on a track.
Proceed as follows:
1.Open the Marker window and select the marker track 
whose ID numbers you want to reassign.
2.Open the Functions pop-up menu and select either 
“Reassign Position Marker IDs” or...

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•Drawing in cycle markers.
To draw a cycle marker range, press [Ctrl]/[Command] and use the Pen-
cil tool or the Arrow tool. If Snap is activated on the toolbar, this deter-mines at which positions you can draw markers. 
•Resizing cycle markers.
Select a cycle marker by clicking on it. Two handles appear at the bottom 
of the start and end events. If you click and hold one of the handles you 
can drag the event left or right to resize the cycle marker. This can also 
be done numerically...

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•When exporting an audio mixdown of the audio between 
the cycle markers (see 
“Exporting and importing markers” 
on page 145), only the cycle markers of the active track are 
displayed in the Export Audio Mixdown dialog. 
•Most marker key commands affect the active track, see 
“Marker key commands” on page 145.
Locking marker tracks
You can lock one or more marker tracks by clicking the 
corresponding lock button of the track. When a marker 
track is locked, you cannot edit the track...

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Marker key commands
You can check or change any key command assignments 
for the marker commands in the Transport and Marker cat
-
egories of the Key Commands dialog. In the following sec-
tion, the available key commands for markers are listed. If 
not stated otherwise, the key commands only affect the 
active marker track.
Key commands in the Transport Category:
Key commands in the Marker category:
ÖWhere no default key command is specified, you need 
to define your own stroke...

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Importing EDL CMX3600 files (Edit Decision 
Lists)
In Nuendo, you can import Edit Decision Lists (EDLs) in 
CMX3600 format. EDLs are cut lists, i.
 e. representations 
of video edits that can be used to align audio events to a 
reference video file in Nuendo. They contain reel and time
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code data that help you to detect the exact position of 
each video clip. Most EDLs are simple ASCII files created 
by offline editing systems, but you can also create, open, 
and edit them manually...

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Nuendo supports the following ways of scene naming:
•Three number scene naming, e. g. 25-3-5
The first is the scene number, the second is the setting or shooting angle 
and the third is the take number. As separators, the following characters 
can be used: comma (,), semicolon (;), full stop (.), hyphen (-), under
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score (_), slash (/), backslash (\). 
•Clip names
Scenes can also be identified by their clip names.
Recommendations 
When exporting EDLs from your offline editing system,...

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7.Click OK to apply your settings.
The CSV Import - Attribute Selection dialog opens. Here, you can assign 
the columns of the CSV to several marker attributes (e.
 g. timecode in, 
timecode out, name).
8.Use the column pop-up menus to assign marker at-
tributes. 
ÖNote that at least the attribute for timecode in has to 
be assigned.
9.In the “Ignore first rows” field, specify how many lines 
you want to exclude from import. 
This is useful if your CSV file contains column headers that...

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To export a CSV file containing markers from Nuendo, 
proceed as follows:
1.Set up the markers for your project.
2.On the File menu, open the Export submenu and se-
lect “CSV Marker…”.
The Export Options dialog opens.
3.In the Export column, activate the marker tracks that 
you want to export.
To select all marker tracks, click the Select All button.
4.Select “From Left to Right Locator”, if you want to ex-
port only markers within the locator range.
5.Choose the desired settings in the...

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ÖTo be able to export markers via MIDI export, your 
project must contain at least one marker track.
For a description of how to export MIDI files, see “Export-
ing MIDI files” on page 560.
Importing markers as part of a track archive
You can import position markers and cycle markers by im-
porting track archives containing marker tracks. Select the 
tracks that you want to import in the Import Options dialog.
The following settings are imported:
• The start and end positions of cycle...