Video preview upside down and no thumbnail in Sonar 8 trial

I have the free Sonar 8 trial and it seems I and freinds will leave Cubase and others for this excellent program. But still we have it under trial.
Now, when loading a video into a project it shows up alright int the video window. BUT...it is upside down!!
And I can't get the thumbnail view to work at all. I loaded an PAL mpeg2 720 video. The buttons dont seem to be clickable, even the dropdown list doesnt seem to work when I try to tik the Show thumbnail line.
Anyone had the same problem?
Martin, Sweden

Interesting! This "sending the "now time" back to 1 (ie the beginning) fixed it", how do you do that? I see the now time on the transport control. You mean resetting it to 0.0?

Tried to upp load a screen shot of the situation in the previous post but obviously failed...

Yes by resetting the now time to 1 I mean to basically send the line to the start. 

John - I just tried that on my project and it doesn't work just blank. Wonder if it has anything to do with the file format that the clip is in?

I have very limited experience with video in SONAR, but I know that some video files don't report their frame rate, and if the frame rate isn't reported to SONAR it will not display thumbnails. 

I've also seen the upside-down video preview failry often.

Regards,

John

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Here is what they said about an upside down video fix in 8.5.2: "WMV videos are sometimes displayed upside down when first imported into SONAR in Windows Vista or Windows7".

I still see it in 8.5.3 and I'm still running XP. 

John said: "Right click on the thumbnail track and select show thumbnails.  By default they wont show. " Well, it does not help. Nothing happens when I do that. Still no thumbnails.
Biodode said: "resetting the now time to 1 I mean to basically send the line to the start". Sorry, but it doesn't change anything on my Sonar. Video is still upside down.
To Tarsier: I use Vista 32 bit. The trial is Sonar PE v.8, not 8.5 since it is not available for trial. I use mpeg2 PAL files, but even other formats I tried are shown upside down so it doesn't seem to depend on the file format...or? You said something about zooming in. I don't see any control for zooming on the thumbnails. Or do you mean zooming in the project timeline? That doesn't make the thumbnails to appear either.
I also wrote to CAkewalk and got a reply from them the day after. They said it might be I don't have the correct video codecs installed on the computer and they asked me to send the video file, which I did yesterday. Let's see if the find something. I am quite sure I have all the codecs installed though.
Martin

Got this reply from Cakewalk: "Hi Martin, 
Thank you for contacting Cakewalk Technical Support. I was unable to open your video file in either versions of SONAR. I believe this is due to the file format. Try importing a video file that is mpeg and not mpeg2. This should work for you."
I will try this and return.
 

WMV video still appears upside down all the way to X1 (using Vista).  Luckily enough, starting and stopping the transport bar fixes it eventually, who knows why

We don't use PAL in the US... we generally use NTSC format. For PAL, make sure you have the framerate set to 25 fps. 

I just loaded a WMV and an AVI and neither were upside down so before condemning Sonar, you might want to check your drivers and your settings.