The Project Browser

The Project Structure list. This is where you navigate through the project.

The event display. This is where you view and edit parts, events and Regions.

While the Project window and the editors display events and other data graphically, the Project Browser window provides a list based representation 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 Project Browser and vice versa.

In this figure, the parts on a MIDI track are displayed.

• Items with hierarchical substructures can be folded out by clicking the plus symbols or the “closed folder” symbols in the Project Structure list.

Navigating in the Browser

You use the Project Browser much like you use the Windows Explorer and Mac OS X Finder for browsing folders on your hard disk:

• Click on an item in the Project Structure list to select it for viewing.

The contents of the item are shown in the event display.

When the substructure of an item is revealed, a minus symbol or an “open folder” symbol is shown instead – click this to hide the substructure.

• To reveal or hide all substructures in the Project Structure list, use the buttons “(+) All” and “(–) All” above the list.

• The actual editing is done in the event display, using regular value editing techniques.

There is one exception: You can rename items in the Project Structure list by clicking on their names and typing.

Customizing the view

You can drag the divider between the Project Structure list and the event display to make one of them wider and the other narrower. Furthermore, the event display can be customized in the following ways:

•You can change the order of the columns by dragging the column headings to the left or right.

•You can resize columns by dragging the dividers between the column headings.

•To select a display format for all position and length values, use the Time Format pop-up menu.

•You can sort events in the display by columns, by clicking 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

As the Project Browser is just another view of the project, you can import audio, video and MIDI files into the project via the MediaBay. For this, select the file in the MediaBay and drag and drop it into the Project Browser.

Ö You can only import into existing tracks. This means, for example, that a video track has to exist in the Project window prior to importing a video file in the Project Browser.

For more information about the MediaBay, see “The MediaBay” on page 314.

About the Sync Selection option

Editing tracks

Editing audio tracks

Audio tracks can have two “subitems”: Track Data and Automation.

•The Automation item corresponds to the Automation subtrack in the Project window, and contains the track’s automation events (see “Editing Automation tracks” on page 432).

•The Track Data item corresponds to the actual audio track in the Project window. It contains audio events and/or audio parts, which in turn can contain audio events.

Note that if you have not performed any automation or opened an automation subtrack, the Browser will only contain the audio data.

Audio track

Track Data subitem of the audio track

Audio parts

Automation subtracks

Audio events

The following parameters are available for the different items:

The list columns for audio events:

If the “Sync Selection” checkbox is activated (in the top right corner of the Project Browser), selecting an event in the Project window automatically selects it in the Project Browser, and vice versa. This makes it easy to locate events in the two windows.

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 can contain MIDI parts (which in turn can contain MIDI events).

•The Automation item corresponds to the automation subtrack in the Project window, and contains the track’s automation events (see “Editing Automation tracks” on page 432).

Note that if you have not performed any automation or opened an automation subtrack, the Browser will only contain the MIDI data.

When editing the Track Data, the following parameters are available:

The list columns for MIDI events:

The list columns for MIDI parts:

Ö For SysEx (system exclusive) events, you can only edit the position (Start) in the list.

However, clicking the Comment column opens the SysEx Editor, in which you can perform detailed editing of system exclusive events. For a description of this, see “Working with System Exclusive messages” on page 410.

Creating MIDI events

You can use the Project Browser to create new MIDI events:

1.Select a MIDI part in the Project Structure list.

2.Move the project cursor to the desired position for the new event.

3.Use the Add pop-up above the event display to select which type of MIDI event to add.

4. Click the Add button.

An event of the selected type is added to the part, at the project cursor position. If the cursor is outside the selected part, the event is added at the beginning of the part.

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 your way. To remedy this, the Filter pop-up menu allows you to select a single event type for display.

Editing Automation tracks

All kinds of Nuendo automation (the automation subtracks for MIDI, instrument, audio, group and FX channel tracks or the individual automation tracks for VST Instruments, ReWire channels or Input/Output busses) are handled in the same way in the Project Browser. Each Automation item in the Project Structure list will have a number of subentries, one for each automated parameter. Selecting one of these parameters in the Project Structure list shows its automation events in the list:

Editing the Video track

When the Video track is selected in the Project Structure list, the event display lists the video events on the track, with the following parameters:

Editing the Tempo track

When the Tempo track is selected in the Project Structure list, the event display shows the events on the Tempo track, with the following parameters:

You can add new Tempo events by clicking the Add button. This creates a jump-type event with the value 120 bpm at the project cursor position. Make sure that there is no other tempo event at the current cursor position.

Editing the Marker track

Marker events have the following parameters:

When the Marker track is selected, you can insert markers 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.

Editing Time Signatures

When “Signature track” is selected in the Project Structure list, the event display shows the Time Signature events in the project:

You can add new Time Signature events by clicking the Add button. This creates a 4/4 event, at the beginning of the bar closest to the project cursor position. Make sure that there is no other time signature event at the current cursor position.

Deleting Events

The procedure for deleting Events is the same for all different track types:

1.Click on an event (or a part) in the Event display to select it.

2.Select Delete from the Edit menu or press [Delete] or [Backspace].

Note that you cannot delete the first Tempo event or the first Time Signature event.