Steinberg Nuendo 4 Getting Started Manual

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Audio editing to picture
ÖOne very handy feature in using Selections A and B, is 
the ability to retain the view of each selection. If your work 
area is far away from the edit insertion point in the video (A 
is far away from B), zooming in closely to either location will 
leave the other outside the Project window viewing area. 
Changing selections between A and B will also cause the 
viewing area of the Project window to switch between the 
two locations instantly. This is really the key to this tech-
nique, allowing you to move quickly between source and 
destination audio while retaining two selections for editing.
Adjusting events to picture
Once audio events have been placed to picture, their fades, 
duration and positions might have to be fine-tuned. Nu-
endo’s nudge features are designed just for this type of use.
The nudge functions are accessed using the nudge but-
tons on the toolbar (or by using key commands). By de-
fault, the Nudge controls are not displayed in the toolbar. 
You can add them by right-clicking (Win)/[Ctrl]-clicking 
(Mac) on the toolbar and selecting “Nudge Palette” from 
the context menu.
The nudge buttons can incrementally adjust the position 
and size by trimming and moving events. Depending on 
the sizing setting of the Arrow tool, the nudge buttons will 
trim the events by moving the boundaries or moving the 
contents inside the event. The size of the nudge increment 
is determined by the grid settings in the Project window. 
A typical nudge setting for picture editing would be 1 frame. 
However, moving events by one frame increments might 
not yield the best timing to picture. Even though the video’s 
resolution is no more than one frame, subtle timing differ-
ences less than one frame can be discerned by the viewer. 
Half-frame and even quarter-frame amounts could be nec-
essary to accurately time events to picture. Subframes are 
also available as grid values and nudge increments.Edit Mode is extremely helpful for fine-tuning event place-
ment to picture. Since the video follows each edit you make 
with the mouse, you can instantly see where in the video 
your edit is taking place, whether that be the start position 
of an event, snap point or fade duration. This makes editing 
to picture fluid and more creative.
The Range Selection tool offers additional methods of ed-
iting including:



 Adjust Fades to Range
In Edit Mode, creating and adjusting the range will chase 
video so defining a range can be done visually to picture.
Picture changes
During the post-production process, it is often necessary 
to make changes to the overall timeline of a project. When 
any change is made to the video, those changes must be 
reflected in the audio as well. Making those changes is of-
ten referred to as “conforming to picture changes”.
There are only two possible types of picture changes:
 Removal of existing video.
 Addition of new video.
The Range Selection tool can be used to accomplish both 
types of picture changes. The key is to retain the relative 
positions of every event in the project after the edit is per-
formed. For example, if a portion of video is removed, re-
moval of events on all tracks including Marker, MIDI, 
automation and Tempo tracks is necessary for everything 
to remain in sync after the edit point.
Select “Nudge Palette ”…
…to add the Nudge controls
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Audio editing to picture
Picture cut
This portion of the chapter will demonstrate how to make 
each type of picture change using the Range Selection 
tool. To make a picture change involving the removal of ex-
isting video, proceed as follows:
1.Determine the starting point and duration of the sec-
tion to be removed.
This information should come from the video editor in the form of time-
code values specifying the start point and duration of each cut. When 
several changes are made to a video, information about those changes 
comes in the form of a “change list” or Avid’s change notes. Reference 
video and audio can also be used to figure this out and also double 
check the edit once it is complete.
2.Select the Range Selection tool and, on the Edit 
menu–Select submenu, choose “Select All” to create a 
selection across all tracks from beginning to end of the 
project.
This automatically selects all different types of tracks including MIDI, 
Marker, Tempo and Video. 
ÖYou should de-select the video track if the current 
video file is the new edited version. You do not want to re-
move anything from the new reference video. You may 
also choose to lock this and any other reference track to 
prevent accidental editing.
3.Manually type in the starting frame of the video change 
edit in the Start field.
This is the first video frame to be removed. You may also locate the cur-
sor to this frame and select “Left Selection Side to Cursor” (by default 
[E]). Make sure that Snap is active, “Grid” mode is selected and that the 
Grid type is set to 1 frame.
Here, the first frame of the video to be removed is 00:02:57:16.
4.Set the duration of the cut in the Length field of the 
Info line.
Now the range selection encompasses all of the events in the project 
that are to be removed with the old video. In this example, the length is 
00:00:04:25 (4 seconds and 25 frames).
The range has been defined for the cut on all tracks.
5.On the Edit menu, select “Cut Time”.
This will remove the selected area and move all the following events to 
the left by the same amount, filling the gap. The audio should now play in 
sync with the new video from the edit point on to the end.
The edit is complete. All events to the right have been moved to fill in 
the gap.
Once the edit is complete, import the new video file and 
check the sync of audio to video through the edit point. 
When performing picture changes, reference audio from 
the new video can be useful for checking your edits.
!Once the new video and reference audio have been 
placed in the Project window, you may lock those 
tracks to prevent inadvertent editing later.
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Audio editing to picture
Picture insert
The same type of technique can be used when video is 
added to the timeline. To make a picture change involving 
the addition of video material, proceed as follows:
1.Locate the insertion point where the video has been 
added.
This information comes from the video editors change notes.
2.With the Range Selection tool selected, press [Ctrl]/
[Command]+[A].
This creates the selection across all tracks.
3.Manually enter the insertion point in the Info line.
Or you can place the cursor at the insertion point and select “Left Selec-
tion Side to Cursor” on the Edit menu–Select submenu.
4.Manually enter the duration of the inserted video in the 
Info line.
This will create a selection of the same size as the inserted video.
The Range has been prepared to create room for inserted video material.
5.On the Edit menu–Range submenu, select “Insert Si-
lence”.
Blank space will be inserted and all events will be moved to the right to 
make room.
Four seconds of blank space has been inserted to accommodate the 
new video.
Tempo maps to picture
When scoring to picture, tempo changes in the music of-
ten need to follow specific visual elements onscreen. Us-
ing the Time Warp feature with Edit Mode allows you to 
make these changes easily while viewing video.When you select the Time Warp tool, the time display auto-
matically switches to Bars and Beats. When you grab a bar 
line in the Project window, the cursor and video will snap to 
that point and as you move the bar line around to adjust the 
tempo, the video will scrub along to give you visual feed-
back of where the bar line is in relation to the video.
Once you have found the specific video frame, [Shift]-click 
in the timeline. This will anchor a tempo point at that posi-
tion. Adjusting bar lines after that point will change its 
tempo value. Using this method, you could synchronize 
the beat of music to various action points in a car chase 
for example.
ÖTime Warp does not allow smooth changes in tempo 
that are often necessary in film scores. For that you must 
edit the Tempo track directly. See the respective chapter 
in the Operation Manual for more information.
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							Index
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Index
A
AAF 107
Adding
EQ 62
Loops 53
Mono Track 27
Adding a fade 40
Advanced settings 23
AES31 107
All MIDI Inputs 21
ASIO 2.0 19
ASIO Direct Monitoring 19
ASIO driver
About 11
DirectX 11
DirectX Setup 11, 18
Installing 12
Audio
Editing 34
Processing 41
Recording 24
Audio buffer size 23
Audio hardware
Connections 15
Setup application 16
Automation
About 65
B
Browser
Scanning 86
Bus
Surround 70
C
Capturing 103
Click
Activating 28
Close
Project 26
CMX EDL 108
Comb filter 108
Conforming 105
Connecting
Audio 15
MIDI 19
Controller lane 51Copying 38
Events 54
MIDI notes 50
Cue list 109
Cut Time 112
Cycle
Playback 30
Recording 31
Recording (MIDI) 48
D
Defragmenting
Windows 13
Demi-colon 100
Drop-frame 100
E
Edit Mode 110
Hiding the cursor 105
Editing
Adding a fade 40
Audio 34
Copying 38
Erasing 40
Gluing 37
MIDI 43
Moving 38
Muting 39
Renaming 35
Repeating 39
Resizing 35
Splitting 36
EDLs 105, 106
Effects 64
About 59
FX channels 64
Insert 64
EQ 62
Equalization 62
Erasing 40
Event envelopes 41
Curve point 102Event operations
About 35
Adding a fade 40
Copying 38
Erasing 40
Gluing 37
Moving 38
Muting 39
Renaming 35
Repeating 39
Resizing 35
Splitting 36
Volume changes 41
Export 74
Mixdown 66
Surround 74
External instruments
About 55
Monitoring 57
Recording 58
Setting up 56
External MIDI Instruments 55
F
Fades
Fade handles 102, 105
Feet and frames 100
Field recording 102, 108
FireWire DV Output 94
Four-point editing 109, 110
Frame rate 100, 106
FX channels 64
G
Gluing 37
H
Hard disk
Considerations 22
I
Info line 103, 105
Input
Adding 27
Setup Surround 70
Input level 16
Input ports 18
Insert effects 64
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Index
Insert Silence 113
Instrument Track
Creating 44
J
Joining 37
K
Key command conventions 7
Key Editor
About 49
L
Latency 22
Levels 60
Setting 27, 28
Loading Sounds 45
Local On/Off 20
Loop Browser 84
About 53
Insert into Project 54
Loops
Adding 53
Working with 52
M
Markers window 101
Media Management
Background 84
MediaBay 84, 109
Auditioning media 89
Open 84
Physical and virtual scanning lo-
cations 86
Play in project context 89
Scanning 86
Searching for media 88
Tagging 90
Metronome click
Activating 28MIDI
Copying notes 50
Cycle Playback 47
Cycle recording 48
Editing 43
Erasing notes 49
External Instruments 55
Playback 47
Quantizing 48
Recording 43, 46
Recording modes (cycle off) 47
MIDI Devices
Setting up 56
MIDI Input
Setting 46
MIDI Interface
Connecting 19
Installing 12
MIDI machine control 95
MIDI notes
Creating 50
Drawing 50
MIDI ports
Setting up 21
MIDI Thru Active 20
Mixing
About 59
Modifier keys 7
Monitoring
About 19
Moving 38
Multi-Channel Media 106
Mute 61
Muting 39
N
New Project
Create 25
Save 26
Normalize 41
NTSC 106
Nudge 111
Nuendo Expansion Kit 13
O
OMF 107Open
Project 26
Recent Projects 26
OpenTL 107
Optimizing the Hard Disk
Windows 13
Output
Adding 26
Setup Surround 70
Output ports 18
P
PAL 106
Pan
Setting 61
Playback
About 30
Cycle 30
MIDI 47
Start 30
Processing
Audio 41
Normalize 41
Reverse 42
Project
Close 26
Open 26
Project Browser 105
Project Synchronization Setup 95
Q
Quantizing 48
R
Range editing
Adjust Fades to Range 104
Crop 104
Cut Head 104
Cut Tail 104
Cut Time 104
Destination 110
Insert Silence 104
Paste Time 104
Paste Time at Origin 104
Source 110
Split 104
Range selection 103
Tool 110
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Index
Range tool 103
Recent Projects 26
Recording 71
Audio 24
Cycle 31
External Instruments 58
Level Settings 27
MIDI 43, 46
Modes 31
Stacked 32
Surround 74
Recording levels 16
Reference audio 106
Release Driver when Application is in
Background 17
Rename 35
Repeating 39
Resizing 35
Reverse 42
S
Save
New Project 26
Setting 60
Setting levels 28, 60
Setting Pan 61
Setup
MIDI Devices 56
Surround Inputs 70
Surround Mix 72
Surround Outputs 70
VST connections for external in-
struments 56
SMPTE 95, 100
24 hour mark 100
Time-of-day 100
Solo 61
Sony 9-Pin 95
Auto-Edit 97
Sound Browser 84
Splitting 36
Spotting List 101
Stacked recording 32
Steinberg Key
About 11
License Activation 12
License Transfer 12Subframes 100
Surround 71, 74
Busses 70
Inputs 70
Outputs 70
Recording 71, 74
Setup 16
Setup a Mix 72
Synchronization Setup 95
Syncrosoft LCC 12
T
Time Warp 113
Timecode calculator 103
Timecode DAT 108
Track
Adding 27
Two-beep 106
V
Video
Auto-Edit 96, 97
AVI 93
BITC 98
Burn-In 98
Container formats 93
DirectShow 92
DirectX 92
Dub stages 98
DV 93
DVI 94
Extract Audio 93
Film mixing 98
H.264 93
HD 94, 106
Insert Edit VTR 96
Layback to Tape 96
MOV 93
MPEG-2 93
MPEG-4 93
Planning 98
Playback Speed 94
Pre-production 98
Pre-roll 96
Pull up/pull down 94, 95
QuickTime 92
Rendering audio into video 95Stems 98
S-Video 94
Thumbnails 93
Timestamp 93
Vari-cam HD 100
VGA 94
Windows Media Player 92
WMV 93
Video codecs 93
Video frames 100
Video reference clock 95
Video setup 21
VST Audio System 17
VST Connections 26
VST input ports 18
VST output ports 18
VTR 106
W
Work Tracks 110
Workclock 95
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