As a sound editor for film, we create hundreds of regions a week, often directly from the project window on an existing track. It is so annoying to have to reach for the mouse to select the name field and then double click just to create a name for each region. Before Nuendo 14 we could at least hit tab a few times to highlight the name field, but this no longer works. Ideally, you could begin typing immediately after creating the region (Command-R for me on Mac), or hit return to accept the default name.
This would make work life significantly easier, and less annoying.
I am referring to making regions from the project window, rather than from the sample editor, as your picture illustrates. The process is: highlight a region of audio on a track(s) and select “Event or range as region.” or trigger that option from a key command.
Interesting. I’ve been using Nuendo for post since 2007, but I never did find any specific use for regions in so far that I have actually forgotten that they even existed.
I have been using regions A LOT.
But never in Post…
Suppose you have an hour long recording of a narrator.
Instead of cutting the whole thing in bits and pieces, you can just create regions and name them accordingly. So retakes, alternative versions, stuff that has been recorded in an earlier sessions, fixes, etc… are available in the pool for direct use.
Just drag them in the correcct order.
Another example are Station ID’s.
Recording promo’s is a daily task, but the “fixed” stationcalls, starts & endings of promo’s are always standard, thereby re-used all of the time.
In the Pool you can have a list of (for example) “X-Station is the Best” sorted by Mood (Happy, Slow, powerfull, male, Female, etc …)
So it’s just a matter of grabbing the right one to use.
What’s more is that you can export these regions in one click, thereby creating small files each named properly.
Here’s how it looks in the pool: (It’s like having cycle markers within the file)
(Not a good example, since all of the regions have the same name)
(This is part of our old -very old- footsteps Sampler)
