The following options are available:

Nuendo Open Document Options Dialog

This dialog will open in two cases:

•If you launch Nuendo with the option “Show Open Options Dialog” selected on the “On Startup” pop-up menu in the Preferences (General page).

•If you hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] while launching Nuendo.

Working with libraries

A library is a stand-alone Pool that is not associated with a project file (for more information about Pools, see “The Pool” on page 296). You can use libraries to store sound effects, loops, video clips, etc., and transfer media from a library into a project by using drag and drop. The following library functions are available on the File menu:

New Library

Creates a new library. Just as when creating new projects, you will be asked to specify a project folder for the new library (in which media files will be stored). The library will show up as a separate Pool window in Nuendo.

Open Library

Opens a file dialog for opening a saved library file.

Save Library

Opens a file dialog for saving the library file (file extension “.npl”).

Revert

If you select “Revert” from the File menu, you will be asked whether you really want to revert to the last saved version of the project. If you click “Revert”, all changes you have made since saving will be discarded.

If you have recorded or created new audio files since saving, you will be asked whether you want to delete or keep these.

Importing audio

ÖFor exporting Audio, see the chapter “Export Audio Mixdown” on page 437.

ÖFor the option “Replace Audio in Video File”, see “Replacing the audio in a video file” on page 474.

Importing audio files

For information on audio file import preferences, please see “Audio file import options” on page 41. For information on import into the Pool and import options, see “Import Medium…” on page 306.

Importing audio CD tracks

You can import audio from audio CDs into Nuendo projects in two ways:

•To import the CD tracks directly into project tracks, choose the “Audio CD…” option from the Import submenu on the File menu.

The imported audio CD track(s) will be inserted on the selected audio track(s) at the project cursor position.

•To import the CD tracks into the Pool, select “Import Audio CD” from the Media menu.

This might be the preferred method if you want to import several CD tracks in one go. For more information, see “Importing audio CD tracks” on page 308.

Selecting one of the Import Audio CD menu items brings up the following dialog:

To import one or more tracks, proceed as follows:

1.If you have more than one CD drive, select the correct one from the Drives pop-up menu top left.

On opening the CD, the program tries to retrieve the track names from CDDB (a CD database). If no connection to CDDB can be established or the CD track names are not found, you can manually change the generic track name in the Default Name field, see below.

2.Activate the “Secure Mode” option, if you want to use a Secure Read mode.

Activate this if you encounter problems when trying to import an audio CD. Error checking and correction will be done during the process. Note that this mode will take more time.

3.In the Windows version, select the data transfer speed from the Speed pop-up menu.

While you normally want to use the fastest possible speed, you may have to select a slower speed for flawless audio extraction.

4.Activate the Copy checkbox for every audio file you want to import.

You can also select a copy section for every file, see below.

5.Click on Copy to generate a local copy of the audio file(s) or section(s).

The copied files are listed at the bottom of the dialog. By default, imported audio CD tracks will be stored as Wave files (Windows) or AIFF files (Mac) in the Audio folder of the current project. To change the folder, click Folder and select another one from the dialog. During copying, the button is labeled “Stop”; click it to stop the process.

6.Click OK to import the copied audio files into the project, or click Cancel to stop the import and discard the copied files.

• If you import more than one audio file into project tracks, a dialog opens in which you have to choose whether to insert the tracks on one track or on different ones.

The new track(s) are displayed in the Project window. New audio clips are created and added to the Pool.

The columns in the “Import from Audio CD” dialog have the following functionality:

#Number of track.

By default, the complete tracks are selected.

• If you want to copy and import a section of an audio CD track only, select the track in the list and specify the start and end of the selection to be copied by dragging the handles in the copy selection ruler.

Use the start and end audition buttons to fine tune the selection boundaries.

Ö Note that you can import sections of several audio CD tracks by selecting them in turn and adjusting the selection. The start and end settings for each track will be displayed in the list.

•You can audition the selected audio CD track by clicking the Play button.

The track will be played back from selection start to selection end (or until you click the Stop button).

•The arrow up/down buttons allow you to audition the start and end of the selection only.

The arrow down button will play a short snippet beginning at the start of the selection, while the arrow up button will play a snippet starting just before the end of the selection.

•In case no connection to CDDB could be established or no CD track names were found, you can change the generic audio file name in the Default Name field.

The imported audio files be will be named accordingly, i.e. <default name> 01 etc.

Ö Note that if there is a track name for a specific audio CD track in the list, the corresponding audio file will use that name instead.

• To open the CD drive, click on the Eject button at the top of the dialog.

Importing Audio from Video files

While you can automatically extract the audio when importing a video file (see “Extracting audio from a video file” on page 472), it is also possible to import the audio from a video file without importing the video itself:

1.Pull down the File menu and select “Audio from Video File…” from the Import submenu.

2.In the file dialog that opens, locate and select the video file and click Open.

The audio in the selected video file is extracted and converted to a Wave file in the project’s Audio folder.

• A new audio clip is created and added to the Pool. In the Project Window, an event referencing the audio file will be inserted on the selected track at the project Cursor position. If no track was selected, a new track will be created.

This works just like when importing regular audio files.

Ö For importing video files, see “Importing a video file” on page 470.

Importing ReCycle files

ReCycle by Propellerhead Software is a program designed especially for working with sampled loops. By “slicing” a loop and making separate samples of each beat, ReCycle makes it possible to match the tempo of a loop and edit the loop as if it was built of individual sounds. Nuendo can import two file types created by ReCycle:

•REX files (export file format of the first versions of ReCycle, extension “.rex”).

•REX 2 files (file format of ReCycle 2.0 and later, extension “.rx2”).

Proceed as follows:

1.Select an audio track and move the project cursor to where you want the imported file to start.

You probably want to import REX files to tempo based audio tracks, since this will allow you to change the tempo later on (having the imported REX file automatically adjust).

2.Select “Audio File…” from the Import submenu on the File menu.

3.Select REX files or REX 2 files with the file type popup menu in the file dialog.

4. Locate and select the file and click Open.

The file is imported and automatically adjusted to the current Nuendo tempo.

Unlike a regular audio file, the imported REX file will consist of several events, one for each “slice” in the loop. The events will automatically be placed in an audio part on the selected track and positioned so that the original internal timing of the loop is preserved.

5. If you now open the part in the Audio Part Editor, you can edit each slice separately by muting, moving and resizing events, adding effects and processing, etc.

You can also adjust the tempo and have the REX file automatically follow (provided that its track is tempo based).

Ö You can achieve similar results by using Nuendo’s own loop slicing features, see “Working with hitpoints and slices” on page 278.

Importing compressed audio files

Nuendo can import (and export, see “Mixing down to an audio file” on page 438) several common audio compression formats. The procedure is the same as when importing any non-compressed audio file, with one important thing to note:

• When you import a compressed audio file, Nuendo will create a copy of the file and convert this to Wave format (Windows) or AIFF format (Mac OS X) before importing it. The original compressed file will not be used in the project.

The imported file will be placed in the designated project Audio folder.

The resulting Wave/AIFF file will be several times larger than the original compressed file.