Post Production

Whatever the challenge may entail - be it an audio production for a film, TV show or a game - Nuendo satisfies discerning audio professionals’ every demand. What’s more, it puts powerful tools into your hands, helping you to accomplish every audio post-production task with ease and convenience. Designed for both speed and reliability, Nuendo is open to accommodate non-native systems. All this and many more peerless functions make it the system of choice for TV and film studios, post-production studios and independent editors all over the world. Read on to learn more about the key features Nuendo offers for post-production projects.

Audio Recordings

• Recording BWAV files with time stamp and metadata to EBU specifications
• Split and Interleaved recordings in all standard Surround formats
• Unlimited number of audio tracks
• Supports all prevailing audio interfaces, enabling free selection of audio hardware
• 32-bit floating point Audio Engine ensures extraordinary fidelity for recordings

Transfers

• Import and export via all standard transfer formats: AAF, OMF, OpenTL and AES-31
• Reads BWAV files with time stamp and metadata according to EBU specifications
• Time code master and slave capabilities
• Supports Machine Control via SONY 9-Pin and MMC
• LOCO-compatible for Conforming from Disk

Editing

• Convenient management of all project media files used in the Nuendo Pool window
• Metadata indicator in the Pool and metadata processing during export
• Extensive search function
• Enables the creation of personal sound libraries
• Inserts files via drag & drop
• Inserts files at the desired position (cursor, time code position, or time position of the original recording)
• Processes files directly in the Pool via plug-in effects or off-line processes
• Batch processing for fast conversion and processing of multiple files
• Fast and flexible audio editing via mouse, keyboard or external remote controller
• Integrated Sample editor for extensive processing and real-time stretching
• Video image automatically follows all actions such as moving, trimming, fades and scrubbing
• Real-time fade-ins, fade-outs and cross-fades (nondestructive
• Powerful Fade editors and Auto Fade function
• User-definable key commands and macros to accelerate working pace
• Edit History for unlimited undo/redo of all edits
• Offline Process History for managing and modifying all processes performed offline
• Integrated track sheet printing

Post Synchronization and Foley

• Integrated Loop markers for creating taker lists
• Supports professional dubbing programs such as Gallery’s ADR Studio and F.E.G.’s ADR/EDICOM
• Peerless Warp to Picture functions enabling fast, accurate adaptation of audio and video to the picture, whereby the image follows audio time-stretching in real time
• Full-featured mixer architecture offering all the functions of big studio consoles, including AFL/PFL, metering, effect plug-ins and integration of external signal processors
• Full control room functionality, whereby four separate studio busses deliver an individual headphones mix to each sound-maker and speaker
• Talkback function for relaying the producer’s instructions

Soundtrack Composition

• MIDI editors for every application: Score editor, Key editor, Drum editor, List editor and Logical editor
• Extensive layout functions for music notation and score printing
• Integrated MIDI effect plug-ins
• Inplace editor for processing MIDI in context with audio tracks
• Up to 64 VST instruments per project
• Smooth, seamless integration of external MIDI instruments

Mixing on an Outboard Desk

• Seamless integration with analog and digital mixing consoles via AES, TDIF, ADAT or MADI
• Supports time code, SONY 9-Pin and MMC
• Unique Collaboration Network feature enabling fast stage fixes and multiple users to work simultaneously on a project
• Freely definable color-coding of all tracks for enhanced clarity
• Folder tracks for easy management of large projects

Mixing in Nuendo

• Full multi-channel audio path from mono to 10.2 for all input busses, audio tracks, FX returns, aux sends, group and output objects
• Down-mixers and mix converter tools for flexible format conversion
• Automation of all mixer parameters, including effect plug-ins and VST instruments
• Five different automation modes (Touch Fader, Autolatch, X-Over, Overwrite and Trim)
• Simultaneous view of any number of automation tracks and numerous options for editing recorded automation data
• Professional metering tools including freely configurable Fallback Time, Pre/Post Fader Metering and Peak Hold
• More than 40 included effect plug-ins and a world-class selection of native and DSP-based effects offered by third-party providers such as Waves, URS, Universal Audio, SONY Oxford and TC Electronics.
• Control room section with four different speaker setups including Solo and Fold-Down function
• Full automatic latency compensation throughout the signal chain
• Supports dozens of hardware controllers for utmost convenience in handling Nuendo when mixing
• Optional EuCon adapter for Euphonix MC and System 5-MC
• Supports WK Audio’s ID Controller

* PC only
** Mac only