Hi,
Is there a way to create a new track from selected audio events that exist actross multiple tracks?
I have a film where they have mixed dialog and music and effects randomly and I would like to be able to quickly separate these files.
Thanks,Paul
Drag and drop to an empty area?
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Yes, there’s a solution.
Select the events and select Edit>Render in Place>Render Settings. Make the following settings:
- select ‘Channel Settings’ in the Processing section
- tick ‘Mix Down to One Audio File’ in the File Location section
- enter a suitable name in the File Name Settings section.
- click on render
Done.
If it were me, I would command drag (Mac) these events manually to whatever tracks I want to keep their position as is, rather than render them, in order to keep their potential handles and provide flexibility if needed down the road.
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I would do the same.
Indeed. It’s a dilemma but the OP has both options so could make a choice depending on the technical requirements. For film work, getting all the dialogue on one track, for example, might be an advantage.
For me the drag and drop thing might be better in that it would also keep whatever automation is on the audio file without changing the actual audio file.
Of course dragging all of them to the bottom of the file would create a bunch of new audio tracks but then I could manually consolidate.
I just thought perhaps there was a key command that could do just that what I am hoping for . To automatically put all the audio parts with their automation on a new track.
But the render command that stingray suggested does not have to render them as one file. you can render as separate parts to one track. But it does remove the automation.
Thanks so much for the suggestions peeps. Much appreciated.
In this case, we do not work with audio files. Just audio events that are referenced clips.
Render in place generates audio files.
Drag and drop is non-destructive, which is a good thing in the timeline.
Parts are different things.
Events.
A part is a group of events connected together.
It is essential to understand the differences of all that things.
I guess you used the words with a more general meaning in mind, but it’s dangerous to use these words regarding a DAW. 
Thanks. I understand the difference between audio parts and events.
I have been using Cubase since 1990.
And rendering everything as separate parts is destructive of the original audio and not as useful to me as just dragging the parts down and creating new tracks and then just dragging everything to one track.
Thanks.
No help for anyone … but I think a right click on an event, then a menu called “Move To…” with a list of desination tracks would be a great timesaver. It would work with multiple selected events too.
I’ve done my share of Command/ Dragging over the years … it’s stupid.
On the whole Nuendo is quite poor at leveraging Tracks to the advantage of a workflow. Ever wanted to ‘sort’ the track order. Or be able to tag a Track role ( eg Dialog, gun FX, Phone Voice, etc ) then sort them… or bring one to the top of the list?
This is all doable in NLE’s … why should Audio DAW’s be so rigid?
At the end of the day it’s just a database.
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There is a “move events to selected track” key command.
If you disable “Track selection follows Event Selection” in the “Editing” Preferences, this works pretty fast.
Create a new track (make sure it stays selected), select an event from another track and press the key command.
WATCH OUT: This does not work for events spread over multiple tracks!
So you have to go track by track regarding the source tracks.
Copies over track-automation too.
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Thanks so much.