Steinberg Nuendo 5 Manual

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The Pool
Background
Every time you record on an audio track, a file is created 
on your hard disk. A reference to this file – a clip – is also 
added to the Pool. Two general rules apply to the Pool:
•All audio and video clips that belong to a project are 
listed in the Pool.
•There is a separate Pool for every project.
The way the Pool displays folders and their contents is 
similar to the way the Mac OS X Finder and the Windows 
Explorer display folders and lists of files.
In the Pool you can,...

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Window overview
Toolbar overview
The info line
Click the “Show Info” button on the toolbar to show or 
hide the info line at the bottom of the Pool window. It 
shows the following information:
• Audio Files – the number of audio files in the Pool
• Used – the number of audio files in use
• Total size – the total size of all audio files in the Pool
• External Files – the number of files in the Pool that do not re-
side in the project folder (e. g. video files)
The Pool window columns
Various...

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User Attributes
You can define your own attributes for elements in the 
Pool. This is handy when you have a large number of au
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dio files in the Pool. You can use the attributes to sort 
items in the Pool or merely keep track of some aspect of 
your project.
Simply select the “Define User Attributes” option from the 
View/Attributes pop-up menu and create as many new at
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tributes as you need. These attributes will then get their 
own columns in the Pool. Each attribute can be defined as...

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Operations
ÖMost of the Pool-related main menu functions are also 
available on the Pool context menu (opened by right-click
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ing in the Pool window).
Renaming clips or regions in the Pool
To rename a clip or a region in the Pool, select it and click 
on the existing name, type in a new name and press 
[Return].
ÖThis will also rename the referenced files on disk!
Renaming multiple clips or regions
You can also rename multiple clips or regions in the Pool 
using the “Rename…” command from...

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An example of the result is displayed in the bottom of the 
window for reference. All of these parameters can be 
saved as a preset as well.
Duplicating clips in the Pool
To duplicate a clip, proceed as follows:
1.Select the clip you wish to copy.
2.Select “New Version” on the Media menu.
A new version of the clip appears in the same Pool folder, with the same 
name but with a “version number” after it, to indicate that the new clip is 
a duplicate. The first copy made of a clip will get the...

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Deleting from the hard disk
To delete a file permanently from the hard disk, it must first 
be moved to the Trash folder:
1.Follow the instructions for deleting clips above, but 
click the Trash button instead of the Remove from Pool 
button.
Alternatively, you can drag and drop clips into the Trash folder.
2.On the Media menu, select “Empty Trash”.
A warning message is displayed.
3.Click “Erase” to delete the file on the hard disk perma-
nently.
This operation cannot be undone!
ÖTo retrieve...

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•If you want to limit the search to certain folders, choose 
“Select Search Path” and select the desired folder in the 
dialog that opens.
The search will include the selected folder and all subfolders. Note also 
that folders you have recently selected using the “Select Search Path” 
function will appear on the pop-up menu, allowing you to quickly select 
them again.
4.Click the Search button.
The search is started and the Search button is labeled Stop – click this 
to cancel the search if...

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•You can save presets of your search filter settings. To 
do this, click Save Preset on the Presets submenu and 
enter a name for the preset.
Existing presets can be found at the bottom of the list. To remove a 
preset, click on the preset to activate it, then select Remove Preset.
The Find Media window
Alternatively to the search pane in the Pool, you can open a 
stand-alone Find Media window by selecting the “Search 
Media…” option from the Media or context menu (also 
available from the...

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Proceed as follows:
1.Open the Pool and locate the clip(s) for which files are 
missing.
2.Check the Status column – if it says “Reconstructible”, 
the file can be reconstructed by Nuendo.
3.Select the reconstructible clips and select “Recon-
struct” from the Media menu.
The editing is performed and the edit files are recreated.
Removing missing files from the Pool
If the Pool contains audio files that cannot be found or re-
constructed, you may want to remove these. For this, select...

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They may have the following characteristics:
• Stereo or mono
• Any sample rate (although files with another sample rate than 
the one used in the project will play back at the wrong speed 
and pitch – see below).
• 8, 16, 24 bit or 32 bit float resolution.
Various video formats can be imported. For information 
about the supported video formats, see 
“Video file com-
patibility” on page 521.
ÖIt is also possible to use the commands on the Import 
submenu of the File menu to import audio or...