Steinberg Nuendo 5 Manual

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Editing tempo and signature
Matching a musical score to video
Here’s an example of how to use the Time Warp tool in 
“musical events follow” mode. Let’s say you are creating 
the music for a film. You have a video track, an audio track 
with a commentary and some audio and/or MIDI tracks 
with your music. Now you want to match the position of a 
musical cue to a position in a video film. The musical cue 
is located in bar 33. There are no tempo changes in the 
project (yet).
1.Make sure tempo track...

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Editing tempo and signature
11.Now match the second musical cue to the correct 
video position by dragging the musical position to the 
desired time position as before.
The new tempo event is edited – the first tempo event is unaffected and 
the original cue is still matched.
•If you know you are going to match several cues this 
way, make it a habit to press [Shift] each time you use the 
Time Warp tool to match positions.
This adds a new tempo event – that way, you do not have to add tempo 
events...

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Editing tempo and signature
Now, if you simply adjusted that beat in the tempo grid to 
match the beat in the recording, the tempo event at the 
first downbeat would be changed – this would ruin the 
match in the previous bars! We need to lock these by in
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serting a new tempo event.
9.Locate the last beat that is in sync.
This would be the beat just before the position where the audio and 
tempo drift apart.
10.Press [Shift] and click at that position to insert a tempo 
event there.
This locks this...

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The Project Browser 

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The Project Browser
Window Overview
The Project Browser window provides a list based repre-
sentation of the project. This allows you to view and edit all 
events on all tracks by using regular value editing in a list.
Opening the Project Browser
You open the Project Browser by selecting “Browser” from 
the Project menu. The Browser window can be open while 
you are working in other windows; any changes made in the 
Project window or an editor are immediately reflected in the 
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•You can sort events in the display by columns, by click-
ing the column heading.
For example, if you want to sort events by their start positions, click that 
column heading. An arrow appears in the column heading, indicating that 
events are sorted by that column. The direction of the arrow indicates 
whether the events are sorted in ascending or descending order. To 
change the direction, click the column heading again.
Importing files via the MediaBay
You can also import...

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The Project Browser
The list columns for audio parts
Creating audio parts
When the “Audio” item of an audio track is selected in the 
Project Structure list, you can create empty audio parts on 
the track by clicking the Add button on the toolbar. This 
will insert a part between the left and right locator.
Editing MIDI tracks
Just like audio tracks, MIDI tracks can have two “subitems”: 
Track Data and Automation.
• The Track Data item corresponds to the actual MIDI track in 
the Project window and...

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ÖFor SysEx (system exclusive) events, you can only edit 
the position (Start) in the list. However, clicking the Com
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ment column opens the SysEx Editor, in which you can 
perform detailed editing of system exclusive events. For a 
description of this, see 
“Working with SysEx messages” 
on page 427.
Filtering MIDI events
When you are editing MIDI in the Project Browser, the large 
number of different MIDI events displayed can make it hard 
to find the events you want to edit....

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Editing marker tracks
Marker events have the following parameters:
You can insert markers on the selected marker track by 
selecting “Marker” or “Cycle Marker” from the Add pop-up 
menu and clicking the Add button. Regular markers will be 
added at the current project cursor position while cycle 
markers will be added between the current left and right 
locator positions.
ÖThe Project Browser only displays the default attributes.
For further information on markers and marker...

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The Track Sheet