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Hey there, sorry I'm late at joining in, was busy at Tonmeistertagung here in Germany...
Some stuff I love about DLG editing in Nuendo:
- the often mentioned clip gain: it allows me to more or less visually "premix" a track simply by levelling the dialog waveforms by eye. I play a track, see that the next clip will be softer, mouse arrow over the clip level value in the info bar, mouse wheel up or down to adjust to taste, done.
- clip gain and drawing volume curves on the clip lets you get your levels right BEFORE any inserts. your compressor will have a constant level at the input. UNLIKE ProTools Volume curves (these are automation)... trim plugin helps here though, but I find it a little awkward in comparisson...
- the audition in the pool! Great for finding alternate takes. Once you have, simply double clicking the file opens the audio editor. Use the audition speaker to find the sentence, select it with the range tool, copy and paste to your project editing window (I remember you might need to keep the waveform editing window open until you have pasted though, not sure if this has changed in N4).
- waveform editor copy/paste (see above)! In PT you always need a "spare track" to drag the file to from the region list, find your sentenc, cut, move etc...
also great for finding room tone to clean dolly squeaks etc: double click on the event, find silence, and copy and paste to the edit
- audio shifting (alt+ctrl+drag in N3, alt+shift+drag in N4 I think): allows you to shift the audio in the click with the mouse. PT has this feature only in nudge form (grid size) as far as I know. Great for getting timing of the odd out of sync sound right, or editing atmo/room tone simply by shifting the material within the clip (clip bounds might be set correctly for the scene, but you would like to move a certain cue by a few frames)
- replacing clip material by another audio file: Shift+drag a file from the pool to a clip to replace the audio. Great for changing from boom mic to the radio mic clip (same time code and lenght), or replacing file denoised in an external application.
Also great: I had an AAF from Premiere that only opened in PTLE, but with most audio clips missing. No chance of relinking in PT, so I exported to AAF and opened in N4. There I had empty clips, but with the scene/take names of the original WAVs. So I shift+dragged the files from the Pool/Mediabay (simpler version of sth. like soundminer) to the clips and had the AAF recreated within an hour or so.
Just my few cents, it's down to what gets you going creatively best, without having to think too much about the "how".
Feel free to ask of PM if you have any workflow or feature questions.
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