Steinberg Nuendo 5 Manual

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Introduction
Nuendo is a full-featured postproduction media tool that is 
capable of dealing with video content in several ways. You 
can work with video and create complete soundtracks from 
within Nuendo. The soundtrack can then be inserted into a 
video file, recorded onto video tape or exported as an audio 
file that can be married to the video or film later. This chap
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ter covers the video operations related to the video itself, 
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If you are not able to load a certain video file, the required 
codec is probably not installed on your computer. In this 
case, you can search the Internet (e.
 g. the Microsoft or 
Apple web sites) for video codecs.
Frame rates
Nuendo is capable of working with different types of video 
and film frame rates. For an overview about the supported 
frame rates, refer to the section 
“Frame rate (speed)” on 
page 498.
Video output devices
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Preparing a video project in Nuendo
The following sections describe the basic operations nec-
essary for preparing a Nuendo project involving video. It is 
advisable to store your video files on a separate hard drive 
from your audio files. This can help prevent data streaming 
problems when using high-resolution video with many au
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dio tracks. 
Importing video files
Importing a video file into your project is very straight for-
ward once you know that you have a compatible video file. 
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must manually change it back after clicking the “Get From 
Video” button. In this case, it is important that the video 
event is snapped to the timeline to ensure proper position
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ing and synchronization within the project.
ÖNuendo can only detect the supported frame rates 
(these are the frame rates listed in the Frame Rate pop-up 
menu in the Project Setup dialog). Video files with non-sup
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ported frame rates can be played back, but the time dis-
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as when they are calculated. When the processes that 
rely heavily on the computer CPU are finished, the frames 
are automatically recalculated, i.
 e. the program automati-
cally switches between realtime calculation of the pictures 
and using the cache file.
ÖThere are situations where no thumbnail cache file 
can be generated, e.
 g. if you import a video file from a 
folder that is write-protected. If you have access to the 
host folder at a later stage, you can generate a thumbnail 
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To set up a video output device, proceed as follows:
1.Pull down the Devices Menu and select “Device 
Setup…” to open the Device Setup dialog, and select the 
Video Player page.
2.In the Active column, activate the checkbox for the de-
vice that you want to use for playing back video. 
All devices in your system that are capable of playing back video are 
listed. The Onscreen Window device serves for playing back the video 
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•Drag the borders, just like when resizing other windows.
ÖThe higher the resolution, the more processing power 
is needed for playback. If you need to reduce the proces
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sor load, you can reduce the size of the Video Player win-
dow, or lower the value on the Video Quality submenu.
Setting the aspect ratio
Resizing the Video Player window by dragging its borders 
may lead to a distorted image. To prevent this, you can set 
an aspect ratio for video playback.
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Extracting audio from a video file
If a video file contains audio, the audio stream can be ex-
tracted. As always when importing audio material, a dialog 
is displayed allowing you to select different import options 
(see the section 
“Audio file import options” on page 64). 
The extracted audio stream is added to the project on a 
new audio track and can be edited like all other audio mate
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rial, see the chapter “Audio editing to picture” on page 535.
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About film transfers
When working on film projects, video postproduction edi-
tors typically transfer the film footage to video for use with 
computer video editing systems. Once the film has been 
edited, it can be transferred back to film for presentation in 
theaters or may remain in video format for television broad
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cast and release on videotape or DVD.
Pull-up and pull-down
When film footage is transferred to video, the frame rate 
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When properly done, the first frame of film will be trans-
ferred to both fields of the first frame of video and so on. 
All that is needed is the 4
 % increase in speed for this to 
be a one-to-one transfer. 
If the project is going to be returned to film for the final 
presentation, the audio can be slowed back down to nor
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mal speed when transferring back to film in order to pre-
serve the fidelity and performance values of the original 
material.
Transferring film to NTSC video...