Hi everyone,
I know Nuendo’s 14 main focus is still cinematic and long-form workflows, and that is great, but sometimes it feels like advertising producers get a little forgotten in the process. I said it and I will keep saying it. Our workflow is extremely fast-paced and high-pressure, and a few improvements would make an enormous difference for us. Here are some requests and issues that would really help:
1. Create a direct shortcut for “Set Timecode at Cursor (or at beginning of event) to Zero.”
Right now we have to use “Set Timecode at Cursor,” then manually type all zeros. It works, but it slows things down, especially when we are working with ten or more videos and clients are watching on Zoom in real time, and we’re jumping from a video to another. A one-click command to instantly set the timecode to 00:00:00 at the beginning of a selected event or at cursor would be a lifesaver. And since OMF still cannot be imported at cursor like AAF (yes, even in 2025), this becomes even more important.
2. Spacers between events.
Please allow assigning shortcuts to fixed spacer values. Currently Nuendo always uses the previously used value, which is not ideal when doing rapid layout work. A shortcut that triggers a specific spacing value directly would speed up a lot of editorial tasks.
3. “Replace Audio in Video” should follow marker names also, not only video names.
Please do not forget the ad world on this one. We sometimes have 20, 30 or even 40 videos in one timeline, often the same video duplicated with multiple audio options for client selection. If “Replace Audio in Video” automatically used the marker name for the exported file, it would save countless mistakes and repetitive manual renaming.
4. Major automation issue when hiding/folding lanes.
This one is dangerous during mixing.
I use “-” and “=” (via macros) to increment and decrement volume automation by 0.1 dB. Here is how to reproduce the issue:
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Create Track A and Track B.
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Show both automation lanes.
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Add two automation points on lane A at 0 dB.
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Select those two points, press decrement ten times, they go to -1 dB.
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If you click elsewhere on your empty timeline, they unselect normally, no problem.
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But if you fold or hide Track A’s automation before clicking elsewhere, then click empty space, the points should be unselected.
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Instead, they remain selected invisibly.
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If you then select points on Track B and use your increment and decrement shortcuts, Nuendo also modifies the hidden points on Track A.
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With many selected points, this can silently shift large parts of a mix.
To make it more confusing:
If I delete the automation points on Track B, the hidden points on A do not get deleted, which shows that only the increment and decrement commands continue to act on them behind the scenes, while other commands do not.
This inconsistency is risky because automation you cannot even see is still being altered.
Now, to be fair, there is one good side to this behavior:
Nuendo lets you intentionally select automation points across multiple lanes and adjust them together, which is extremely useful. When I do this on purpose, it’s a great feature.
But the bad side is catastrophic:
If you forget to unselect points before folding an automation lane, those hidden points will move together with any other selected points. And they will continue moving every single time you adjust other automation elsewhere, because they remain silently selected. This can seriously damage a mix and the engineer will have to remember the initial position of the hidden selected points…
The request:
Please automatically unselect all selected automation points on a lane the moment that lane is hidden or folded.
5. Add more attributes to the naming scheme for Export Markers.
At the moment, the naming scheme only allows using the “Description” and “ID” fields. It would be extremely helpful if we could use additional Export Marker attributes, such as the “Version” field, Length, or other metadata. Advertising workflows rely heavily on versions and durations, so this flexibility would make exporting dozens of deliverables much cleaner and more reliable.
6. Undo behavior for accidental volume drags on automation lanes.
This is really the last time I ask for this, I have been requesting it for more than five years.
We really need a proper undo for accidental volume drags with the first created automation point on a lane. Right now the behavior is very strange:
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Create a track.
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Create a first automation point on the volume curve and immediately drag it down (with the same click, create and drag down), so you now have an automation point and a lower volume.
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Press Undo once. Instead of restoring the previous state, Nuendo simply erases the point and keeps the volume curve down, which is not what you would expect.
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Press Undo one more time and it deletes the whole track, which is logical in itself.
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Now press Redo. Nuendo recreates the track, but with the wrong automation state, not the original one.
So the combination of Undo and Redo does not correctly restore the automation to the original state after an accidental volume drag. For people working fast with a lot of automation, a clean and predictable Undo for that first volume drag would help avoid many small disasters.
If these improvements find their way into Nuendo, they would make a massive difference for professionals working in fast-turnaround commercial audio. Thank you so much for considering them!
… few!
but i understand that it is annoying.