Jimbo 88
See to me Exporting Video out of Sonar is a waste.
In general, I agree with this... there have only been a handful of times I've needed to export video from Sonar. It's handy when you want a one-click function to spit out a rough cut, but I've only needed it to send a preview to someone not related to the project itself. The people close to the project would already have the video available, so for them a wav file is preferable. Video export, as a result, is only tangentially related to my workflow. Other people might have more valid, pressing needs for it, and that's fine.
As an aside, I think I've done a poor job of articulating my specific agenda or desires in the other threads recently. I don't care about Mac, or Cakewalk's business plans, or any other modifications to the app or plugins or whatever else. The rest of the application is so incredibly polished, there are only a few minor tweaks I would suggest for it. Trivial stuff. So perhaps I should be giving them more pats on the back for a job well done in the track view, synth handling, envelopes, the list goes on. Stuff that other DAWs either don't have at all or handle very poorly.
All I want is the staff view to be on par (or somewhere, anywhere, close) to the rest of the application from a functionality standpoint. I was trying to think back to the last time the staff view had an honest-to-god upgrade in functionality. I remember using Sonar 2.2 -- the first version I used -- and it was almost identical to what we have today.
So people are now mentioning how "some people just like to complain, they can never be happy, it's how they are," etc. etc. I'm very happy with the rest of the app. I continue to pay for it. But to blindly cheerlead and not make our wishes known doesn't help the application. It's like living in an apartment where the A/C unit has been limping along, barely keeping the house cool for years. You tell the landlord every so often, but every month they show up and upgrade the refrigerator.
They say they hear us, and that staff view improvements are in the backlog. They've made a few bug fixes here and there in the staff view over the past 18 months, gotta give them credit for that (though I must admit I'd never run into any of the bugs they fixed). I keep hoping we'll see a real, solid push at some point to bring it up to date.
/rant