Today I had to print out 4 reels of FX and BG cuesheets from Nuendo and it really couldn’t have been easier. The editor had one session per reel with everything in it. Predubs A through D were backgrounds—E, F and G were hard effects. Initially I tried printing the whole session in one pass in Nuendo 2.2 in Mac OS X, but it kept crashing on the the last page. I switched to printing a couple predubs at a time and from that point on everything went very smooth.
Nuendo has group tracks. Click on plus sign in the group track labeled “AFX” and it will open revealing all the AFX tracks. By clicking the solo button on the AFX group track, all AFX tracks are soloed. If you solo tracks, only those tracks will be printed on the cuesheet.
I soloed predubs A through D—the BGs. Under the “Project” menu I selected “Track Sheets”. A new windowed opened and I saw my cuesheet. I clicked on the “More” button to show all the options. By default the cuesheet is a vertical US letter (8.5″ x 11″) page. I selected “Page Setup” from the “File” menu to change that to a horizontal Tabloid (11″ x 17″).
Back in the cuesheets (track sheet) window, I turned off the timecode column from the pulldown menu, filled in the blanks for the name of the cuesheet and editor, and dragged the track width until everything fit on two pages across. Then I selected “Print” from the “File” menu.
So amazingly easy.
The cuesheets look pretty good. If I had my way, I’d make a few minor tweaks to the layout. I think there should be a space between the track header and the first cue. Likewise there should be a space between the cue in-point and the description. Plus there are a couple of line-wrapping issues that need to be resolved, but considering I was able to print out those four reels in three separate passes each in less than 10 minutes, I didn’t care.
This was such a huge difference from my usual struggle with Tape. Plus with OS X 10.3’s built-in “Print to PDF” option, I was able to save great looking digital files of all my cuesheets that I could email to the dub stage for safety.
If I have some time tomorrow, I might investigate and see how hard it is to open a Pro Tools 5.1/5.3/6.x session in Nuendo and print the cuesheets from there. It might be possible to Pro Tools 6.4.1’s DigiTranslator to save an OMF file with no media. Open that in Nuendo and print.