Bug: Cursor not at beginning of part

This has been bugging me for quite some time. Why does sometimes Cubase or Nuendo place the cursor halfway of the audio part instead of putting it right at the beginning? It sometimes makes placing the audio to an event in a video a bit difficult as I am not able to see exactly where the event is located in the picture.

Most of the time, it works OK but not always. What is causing this? Could it be a bug?

I’ve seen this topic pop up in my search but it is already quite an old post and I cannot find any “Stationary Cursors” option in my Nuendo settings.

Thanks for every suggestion!

I think we are missing an important information. What do you do that makes you expect the cursor to go to the beginning of the event?

Every time I click a part, the cursor gets placed in front of it usually.
Screen Recording 2025-08-06 at 15.11.21

I also have “Video follows Editing” enabled under “Transport”

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Maybe the anchor/snap point of the event is not located at the beginning. If you open the event in the sample editor, does it show the “S” marker (“R” in the German version) somewhere in the middle? If so, just move it to the beginning.

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I will keep an eye on that, thanks! Is there a way to put it perfectly back at the start of my selected part? Because it seems you can only do it manually/imperfectly

I don’t know a direct way but you could move the cursor to the start of the selected event by pressing L and then use Audio > Snap Point to Cursor to move the anchor point accordingly. You can also assign a keyboard shortcut to the latter.

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Like Martin said, assign a keycommand to that and you should be able to select all your events, hit the KC and all snap points should have moved to the beginning of each event.

Bear in my that if you resize the beginnings of events, the snap point will stay where it was !

Regards
Yannick

this helps only temporarily. as soon as I start dragging the part, the cursor jumps back to the shifted snap point.

by the way, this snap point shift seems to happen mostly on content that is rendered in place.

Screen Recording 2025-08-06 at 16.20.07

You need to select your event, then locate (KC=L) the cursor to your event start, then use the Snap Point to Cursor command. The snap point should now be exactly at the start of your event…

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Gotcha, I’ll try that next time

It is nice to make it a macro:
grafik

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It took me 6 months to come up with that macro by myself in the end lmao. Then I remembered this thread. This works great now, thanks!