• By selecting items in the “Visible Items” column and using the Move Up and Move Down buttons, you can reorder the selected item(s).

Changes are applied directly. To undo all changes and revert back to the standard layout, select “Default” on the setup context menu.

A customized Transport panel.

•If you click the Save button (disk icon) in the Presets section, a dialog opens, allowing you to name the current configuration and to save it as a preset.

•To remove a preset, select it on the presets pop-up menu and click the trash icon.

•Saved configurations are available for selection from the Presets pop-up in the Setup dialog or directly from the setup context menu.

Customizing track controls

You can configure (separately for each track type) which track controls should be shown in the Track list. You can also specify the order of controls and group controls so that they are always shown adjacent to each other. This is done using the Track Controls Settings dialog.

Opening the Track Controls Settings dialog

There are two ways to open the dialog:

• Right-click a track in the Track list and select “Track Controls Settings” from the context menu.

• Click the arrow in the top left corner of the Track list and select “Track Controls Settings”.

Setting the track type

The settings made in the Track Controls Settings dialog apply to the selected track type (Marker, MIDI, Group/FX Channel, Folder, Video, Instrument, Audio). If you rightclick an audio track to open the dialog, for example, the dialog automatically displays the settings for audio tracks. The selected track type is shown in the menu display in the top left corner of the dialog.

• To change the track type, click the arrow to the right in the menu display and select a track type from the pop-up menu that opens.

All settings made in the dialog will apply to all tracks (current and subsequent) of the selected type.

The track type pop-up at the upper left of the Track Controls Settings dialog.

Ö Always make sure that you have selected the desired track type when editing the track controls!

Removing, adding and moving track controls

The dialog is divided into two columns. The left column displays controls currently visible on the Track list, and the right column displays the controls currently hidden.

• You can hide controls from the Track list by selecting them in the list to the left and clicking the Remove button. To show hidden elements, select them in the list to the right and click the Add button.

Click OK to apply the changes.

Ö All controls can be removed except the Mute and Solo buttons.

• By selecting controls in the “Visible” column and using the Move Up and Move Down buttons, you can change the order of the selected control(s) on the Track list.

Click OK to apply the changes.

Grouping track controls

If you resize the Track list, the position of the controls will change dynamically to accommodate as many controls as possible in the available space (given that Wrap Controls is activated – see below). By grouping several track controls you ensure that they will always be positioned side by side in the Track list. To group controls, proceed as follows:

1.Make sure you have selected the desired track type.

2.Select at least two controls you wish to group in the Visible list.

You can only group controls that are adjacent to each other in the Visible list. To group controls that are currently not adjacent in the list, use the Move Up/Down buttons first.

3.Click Group.

A number is displayed in the Group column for the grouped controls. The first group created will have the number 1, the second 2 and so on.

4. Click OK.

The controls are now grouped.

• You can ungroup commands by using the Ungroup button. Please note that this will remove the selected element and the elements below it in the list from this group. To remove an entire group, select the first (topmost) element belonging to this group and click the Ungroup button.

About Wrap Controls

This is activated by default. Wrap Controls is allows the controls to be dynamically repositioned when resizing the Track list. That is, as many controls as can fit in any given space will be displayed depending on how you resize the Track list.

If you deactivate Wrap Controls, the positions of the controls will be fixed, regardless of the size of the Track list. In this mode, you may have to resize the tracks vertically (by dragging the dividers between them) to display all the controls.

About the Length column

The Length column in the Visible list allows you to set the maximum length for certain text fields, e.g. Name. To change the setting, click on the number in the Length column and type in a new value.

Resetting Track list settings

You have two possibilities to reset settings:

•Click Reset to restore all default track controls settings for the selected track type.

•Click Reset All to restore all default track controls settings for all track types.

Saving presets

You can save track controls settings as presets for later recall:

1.Click on the Save icon beside the Presets name field.

A dialog opens, allowing you to type in a name for the preset.

2.Click OK to save the settings as a preset.

Saved presets are available for selection from the Presets pop-up and from the pop-up at the top left corner of the Track list.

• To remove a preset, select it in the Track Controls Settings dialog and click the Delete icon beside the Presets name field.

Ö Nuendo comes with a number of track control settings presets available.

Configuring the main menu items

Configuring the main menus is a feature intended for experienced Nuendo users. Don’t hide menus or menu items unless you are sure that you do not need them!

You can configure what items should be shown on the main menus and submenus, and even hide entire menus. By customizing the menus you can hide items relating to program functions you never use, to customize the program according to your needs. For example, if you never use the Networking features in Nuendo, you can hide the entire Network menu from view.

1. Open the Preferences dialog and select the Configuration page.

The Configuration page contains two parent folders; “Main Menu”, which contains folders for all main menus, and “Command Categories” which contains folders for all Command categories. This section will only describe how to configure Main Menu items, not Command Categories, see “Turning Key Commands off” on page 519.

2. Click on the plus sign for a folder item, e.g. the File folder.

As you can see, all commands and submenus on the File menu are listed in the Name column.

• In the Menu, column you can decide which File menu items to hide from view, by clicking in the column beside the corresponding menu item you wish to hide.

If you click the “On” item in the Menu column for an item, it changes to “Off” and vice versa. All menu items set to “Off” will be hidden when you click Apply or OK.

•Certain essential menu items on the File and Edit menus cannot be hidden, such as Save, Open, Close, Undo/ Redo etc.

For these items there is no entry in the Menu column.

•If you set a main menu folder (as opposed to a menu item) to Off in the Menu column, the entire menu will be hidden from view.

The exception to this is if the main menu folder contains non-removable menu items, in which case all hideable items on the menu will be set to Off, but the menu will still be visible.

•The Command column sets the key command On/Off status for the corresponding menu item.

If this is set to Off, any assigned key command for the item will be disabled (see “Turning Key Commands off” on page 519 for more information).

•You can save menu configurations as preference presets, either separately or together with other Preferences dialog settings – see below.

3. By using the above methods, you can customize all main menus to your liking.

To apply the changes without exiting the dialog click “Apply”. Click OK to apply the changes and exit the dialog.

• To restore all menu items to their default setting (which is visibility and key commands on for all menus and menu items), click the Defaults button.

Note that the Defaults button only restores the settings on the currently selected page (the Configuration page in this case) to their default settings. If you have changed settings on another page of the Preferences dialog, these are not reset.

About preference presets

It is possible to save complete or partial preferences settings as presets. This lets you recall settings quickly and easily.

Saving a preference preset

When you have made your preferences settings, proceed as follows to save all settings as a preset:

1.Make sure that the “Store marked preferences only” option is not activated.

This is because this option is used for saving partial settings (see below), as opposed to complete settings.

2.Click the Store button in the lower left section of the Preferences dialog.

A dialog opens, allowing you to type in a name for the preset.

3. Click OK to save the preset.

Your saved settings will now be available from the Preference Presets pop-up for your future projects.

Loading a preference preset

To load a saved preference preset, proceed as follows:

1.Open the Preferences dialog from the File menu (Win)/ Nuendo menu (Mac).

2.Select the saved preset from the Preference Presets pop-up.

3.Click OK to apply the saved preset settings and exit the Preferences dialog.