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When you click the “Get exclusive access” button for a 
locked track that wasn’t locked by you, a warning mes-
sage appears.
When you are the owner of the project or track, select 
“Release Lock” to unlock the track.
Other users can only click “Cancel” to leave the track locked.
About network communication problems
In any network, occasionally, connections may be lost.
When network communication with a participant fails, you 
can 
initiate a communication verification process, and at-
tempt to re-establish the lost connection, see “Verify 
Communication” on page 10. 
During the verification process, a window appears, 
showing a status bar for its progress.
After the verification process, a dialog will appear.
This lists the results of the verification process. Nuendo may either have 
been able to restore communication through the process, or still be un-
able to communicate with some participant(s). The dialog will list each 
participant with whom communication still failed (see below).
At this point, you will have to decide whether to remove 
the participant(s) from the network:
If you suspect the communication problems are tempo-
rary, select “No” and wait to see if communications can be 
restored.
You can then later manually perform the verification process if you wish 
(see below).
If you believe the communication problems are more se-
vere, for instance if the participant(s) have experienced a 
system or network crash, select “Yes”.
The participant(s) will then be removed from the network until able to re-
join again.
If the verification process does not solve the problem, the 
communication problems are probably of a more serious 
nature and may require re-configuration of the network 
settings (see “Setting up a network” on page 9).ÖNote that you can initiate the verification process man-
ually as well. If you experience communication problems 
and the process doesn’t start automatically, select “Verify 
Communication” from the Network menu.
Reconnecting participants to the Master Network project
When several users have joined a Network project and 
this is unexpectedly disconnected from the network (i.e. it 
is not disconnected by e.g. deactivating the Network or by 
closing the project), these participants can be automati-
cally reconnected. 
Proceed as follows:
1.Open the Master project again.
The program automatically searches 10 seconds for the other users in 
the network. When users are found, the following dialog appears:
2.Select “Reconnect” if you want the other user(s) to be 
automatically reconnected.
When you click the “Unshare” button, the project is unshared.
ÖFor this to work, the Master project has to have been 
saved once. If the project was not saved before being un-
expectedly disconnected, the settings are lost and the 
participants cannot be automatically reconnected.
ÖPlease note that if you are unsure about the state of 
connection, it might be a good idea to unshare the project 
and to submit it as new Network project, in order to avoid 
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Chatting with other users on the 
network
When you are connected to the network, it is possible to 
chat with other users to discuss changes you are making 
to shared projects. To chat with all other users on the net-
work, select “Open Global Chat”. To chat only with the 
users working on the currently shared project, select 
“Open Project Chat”. The chat window (either for global 
chatting or for chatting to users of the current project) will 
open allowing you to send text messages back and forth 
between network users. All network users can see the 
same chat window. 
Enter your text message in the area at the bottom of the 
chat window and press [Return].
ÖNote that when you first enter the chat, you will not be 
able to see text messages posted prior to your entry. Only 
messages entered after you joined the chat will be visible 
to you.
Opening projects with network 
settings
When you are loading a project containing Network set-
tings and the Network is deactivated in Nuendo, the fol-
lowing dialog appears:
 Click “Activate” to activate the Network in Nuendo and try to 
reconnect the project.
 Click “Remove” to remove all Network settings. You can 
choose this when you do not want to work in the network any 
longer. Note that this can also be handy if you have e.g. older 
projects with corrupt network settings and want to delete all 
the network objects and then start again.
 Click “Do Nothing” to open the project without changing any 
Network settings.
The Network dialogs
To round off this document, we will provide a break-down 
of the three Network dialogs and their contents.
The Project Sharing and Permissions dialog
This dialog is where you specify the user permissions for 
the active project before sharing it, either on a project ba-
sis, a track basis or both.
The dialog is dominated by three lists:
The Project & Tracks list.
This lists all the tracks in the project, including the Tempo track and the 
signature track. Furthermore, it displays the permission status for each 
track – “Uses Project Settings” 
or “Overrides Project Settings”. Also, the 
owner of the project/track is listed in the Owner colu
mn.
The User Name list.
This displays all the users that are allowed to share the project, and their 
read and write permissions. Users can be added either manually from the 
All Users list, or by loading a permission preset. You can remove users 
from this list by selecting them and clicking the Delete User button below 
the list (the right button).
The All Users list.
This lists all the users that have entered user names and been estab-
lished in the network. To add a user to the User Name list, select it and 
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In addition, the dialog contains the following:
The Share Project checkbox and the Commit button.
By activating the Share Project option, you share the project over the 
network. Click the Commit button when a project has already been 
shared and you want to commit modified per
mission settings.
The Permission Presets menu.
This menu in the bottom right corner allows you to select and load a per-
mission preset. Also, by clicking the button to the left of the menu, you can 
save the permission settings you have made in this dialog as a preset.
The “Override Project Permissions” checkbox, which is 
only available when a separate track is selected in the 
Projects & Tracks list.
By clicking this, you specify that the track should not use the project 
permission sett
ings.
The Shared Projects dialog
This dialog lists all the identified users and shared projects 
in the network. It lets you share your own projects as well 
as join projects shared by other users. Furthermore, the 
dialog offers the possibility of connecting to WAN (Wide 
Area Network) users.
The users and projects are listed hierarchically in the fol-
lowing categories:
Users in Local Network
This item lists all the identified users in the Local Area Net-
work and any projects they are sharing.

The plus sign beside the item can be clicked to display 
a list of the es
tablished users in a LAN.
If a user is sharing projects, this is indicated by a plus 
sign beside the user name.
Click the plus sign to display a list of projects shared by this user. Dis-
played with each shared project is a list of which users are currently 
sharing it.
My Shared Projects
This folder contains a list of all projects you share over the 
network.
If you have shared projects, you can click the plus sign 
beside the folder to have them displayed in a list.
Displayed with each shared project is a list of which users are currently 
sharing it.
Global IP Network
This item first appears when you open a WAN connection, 
and lists all the users connected through WAN. This 
works just like the “Users in Local Network” item, meaning 
that you can click the plus sign beside the item to display 
the list of users, and the plus sign beside the user names 
to display any projects they share.
You can remove the “Global IP Network” item by select-
ing it and pressing [Delete] or [Backspace].
This will also remove any WAN connections.
The toolbar
The toolbar contains the following items:
You can specify your name in the network by entering 
the desired name in the field to the left of these buttons.
Share Active 
Project.Remove WAN Connection. Lets you 
remove an established WAN connection.
Join Project. Select 
a shared project 
and click to join it.Add WAN Connection. 
Lets you establish a 
WAN connection over 
the Internet by entering 
an IP address.
Rescan Network. Click 
this to update the 
network information
Unshare Selected Project. Select 
one of your shared projects in the 
dialog and click to revoke sharing.
Download Selected Tracks. 
Click this to specify which 
tracks you want to download.
Merge Active Project to 
Selected Network 
Project.Click this to merge 
the active project to the 
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The columns
The columns in the list display the following information:
The User Manager dialog
This dialog lets you set up lists of users, define their read 
and write permissions and save the settings as a permis-
sion preset. The presets can then be loaded in the 
“Project Sharing and Permissions” dialog, letting you 
share a project with the settings of the permission preset.
The Network Name field in the top left corner displays 
your user name in the network. You can click in the name 
field and type in a name.The Permission Presets column to the left displays a list 
of all the available presets.
To add a preset, click the plus icon below the column. To remove a pre-
set, select it in the list and click the trash icon.
The User column in the middle lists all the users that 
should be included in a selected permission preset, and 
their read and write permissions.
Users are added to this list from the User Pool list. You can remove users 
from this list by selecting them and clicking the trash icon below the col-
umn.
The User Pool column to the right lists all the users that 
have entered user names and are established in the net-
work.
To add a user to the User column, select it and click the arrow button to 
the left of the list. To add a user that has not yet been established in the 
network, click the plus icon below the column. To remove a user name 
from the list, select it and click the trash icon.
Column Description
Users and 
ProjectsDisplays a list of all the established users and any projects 
they share. The names displayed are the workstation 
names in a LAN, or the domain names for WAN connec-
tions.
Status The status column displays how many users are estab-
lished in the network and their online/offline status. For 
shared projects, this column displays whether you can 
join a project (denoted by 
the text “You can join” in 
green), or not (denoted by the text “Access denied” in 
red). Furthermore, the column displays the number of 
participants in each shared project.
Info 
(User Name)Displays the user names for the established users in the 
network. If the name “Anonymous” is displayed, this 
means that the user is online but has not entered a user 
name. If it reads “Unknown”, this means the user is offline 
and has not been established in the network.
Projects This displays the total number of projects a user is shar-
ing.
Program Lists which Nuendo program version a user is working 
with.
URL Displays the IP address of the user. 
						

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Index
A
Active (Activating network) 7
Add WAN Connection 9
C
Chatting options 22
Commiting changes 19
D
Default Permissions 13
F
Firewall 6
G
Get exclusive access (lock track) 20
Global IP Network 9, 23
Guest user 13
I
Inspector network controls 19
J
Join project 17
L
LAN 6
LAN connections 9
Loading changes 20
M
My Shared Projects 16, 23
N
NAT 7
Network name 7
O
Override Project Permissions 14
P
Permission preset
Creating in Project Sharing &
Permissions dialog 14
Creating in User Manager
dialog 11
Loading 15
Removing in User Manager 
dialog 13
Permissions
Default preset 13
Presets 11
Setting up for tracks 14
Setting up manually 13
Project folder 17
Project Sharing and Permissions
dialog 22
R
RCP 6
Redo Net Update 20
Remove WAN Connection 9
Rescan Network 10
S
Share Active Project 16
Share project 15
Shared Projects dialog 23
T
TCP/IP 6
Track list network controls 19
Transfer Status 11
U
UDP 6
Undo Net Update 20
Unshare Selected Project 16
User Manager dialog 24
User name 7, 8
Users in Local Network 10, 23
V
Verify Communication 10, 21
VPN 7
W
WAN 6
WAN connections 9