Feature Request: Consolidated Export Preferences

[Chewy_Papadopoulos]

I didn’t find earlier references to this, so here goes:

I’d love it if all of Nuendo’s export preferences (ie bit depth/resolution, create new track, save to mixdown folder, normalize to integrated loudness, update display, realtime export, etc) could be saved under one preset name. Even better would be to include the sound device’s audio buffer.

It would significantly reduce the chances of blowing a 3am export…

I have separate presets for production dialog, audiobooks, music score, etc, and most use specific combinations of the above variables.

It would be very nice to be able to call them up with a single menu item rather than going through a checklist.

Anybody feel the same way… or have a method to do this sort of thing that I haven’t figured out?

Chewy

[stingray]

@Chewy_Papadopoulos

… could be saved under one preset name.

AFAIK this has been asked for in the past. It would certainly be helpful, for all the reasons you outline.

[hendrix97]

That would absolutely be super sick!!

[Chewy_Papadopoulos]

Yeah, I’ve been thinking about it for the last couple of years, but my last project, exported missing a step, wasted a couple of hours I’d much rather have spent doing something else .

User error? Absolutely. But then again, there would be much less opportunity to exploit my fallibility with the addition of a simple “master” export preset.

It’s one thing iZotope actually gets right-- in RX batch export you can save a whole page’s worth of settings (minus the output location, I think) under one preset. Sure would like to have something like that (or better) in Nuendo.

Chewy

[Dietz]

This request gets ignored since decades. Just a few examples of many:

"Mixdown Presets": presets for all settings in Export Audio Mixdown window

I frequently shift between export of locator, cycle markers, various file formats, various different post-export routines, etc. I need to change all these manually every time I export, which is several times per day. I’ve bypassed this using Keyboard Maestro to mouse-click through all settings. This is sub-optimal, it would be better to just have a list of presets to select from instead. Since V13, KM doesn’t work anymore (separate post for later when I’ve figured out exactly why). So, please,…

[FR] Export Audio Mixdown - Follow Project Sample Rate

I’m sure it must have been requested several times during the years already, but as I just ran into it again: Please allow for an option (or even a Preference) to use the active Project’s audio settings (or at least sample rate and bit depth) for Export Audio Mixdown. Background: I’m switching between sessions several times a day, and they come in different SRs, but Nuendo always sticks to the last chosen Export settings, which makes me rendering mixdowns at wrong SRs every now and then. Than…

Inconvenient in Nuendo 10 - Export to mp3

I’m hoping for some help in streamlining the export to mp3 in Nuendo 10. In the course of projects I’ll often send mp3s to clients for review purposes. It takes more keystrokes than earlier versions, as I now have to select: Audio Mixdown/Codec settings/Edit ID3 Tag/Edit name/OK/OK/perform audio export. I haven’t been able to figure out how to make a macro (except for Audio Mixdown). Does anyone have a solution to minimize the keystrokes for this process? Thanks! I’m on PC Windows 10

EDIT: Now with the proper second link.

[Chewy_Papadopoulos]

@Dietz

Just a few examples of many:

Maybe we can get some forward motion on this, then… though the initial response to this particular post has been underwhelming.

Considering how much effort Steinberg has put into the whole Export module, one would think that something as fundamental as what we’re discussing would be a priority. Sure would make a difference to me.

Steinbergers, is there any chance of getting this finally taken care of? Or is there a reason you haven’t?

Chewy

PS I actually remember that one about the mp3s…

[Dietz]

I edited my previous answer as the second link was actually a duplicate of the first one. It’s fixed now!

[snattack]

@Chewy_Papadopoulos

It would significantly reduce the chances of blowing a 3am export…

This.

[emotive]

I think that everyone would agree that there needs to be improved settings/preferences/ preset management, but the real question is, in my view at least; where do Steinberg start?

Personally, if it were me, since it seems we are discussing the entire settings framework of the application(s), I would start with the Export option itself, in the file menu, namely, there really should only be one option, that shows a page whereby various content can be selected.

For example, why is there a separate MIDI export section, when it is track based anyway, so shouldn’t the program know we are wanting to export MIDI, rather than audio data? This is not to mention the fact that you have to solo a MIDI track to be able to get it to be exported correctly or at all, which is likely how the programs have worked since their inception.

Since, at its’ heart the DAWs are actually MIDI sequencers, why then is the song name not saved with a project, which gets deleted on Preference removal? That’s not helpful.

As for the Preferences themselves, who would think that a decades old program, can’t even backup any settings prior to them being deleted or removed, i.e., there is no point in saving them as a Preset because if you regularly remove preferences to help maintain system compatibility with the underlying OS, then you have no option to save them.

In addition, Port Assignments, also cannot be saved after preference removal, another sad aspect of the application.

Regarding the Studio Setup, ASIO guard settings are never saved post preference deletion, making everything really very temporary but there is one setting that remains, even after a repair of the application, which is the metronome Click Options, so Steinberg can probably do something here, it just needs to be articulated by users and formulated into a plan of change.