bandso
I just logged into my account through the website and looked under my products. The download link was there. After downloading I double clicked on the installer and let it do its thing. I looked in the start menu, but nothing was there, so I took a look in "c:\cakewalk content" and there was a folder there for the video (mp4) files. I just double clicked on it and Windows media player started and played it fine. (I'm on Win7)

See this is what's confusing me with some of the posts about this (well one thing). Why is there an installer for a video file? It's not a program... it's a video file. Normal you just "extract/unzip" the compressed folder and bingo bango... you have your vid files.
 
Is it actually an exe? And if so what exactly is it installing? Seems weird. Maybe a mini program to verify that Splat is installed? If so that's a little... erm... wacky.

Beepster
See this is what's confusing me with some of the posts about this (well one thing). Why is there an installer for a video file? It's not a program... it's a video file. Normal you just "extract/unzip" the compressed folder and bingo bango... you have your vid files.
 
Is it actually an exe? And if so what exactly is it installing? Seems weird. Maybe a mini program to verify that Splat is installed? If so that's a little... erm... wacky.

 
Well, despite compression of mp4 being minimal (on an individual basis), ~100MB of 2.6GB, it is compressed as RAR and the .exe handles extraction/uncompression without the need of third party tools.
 
Not that I'm concerned (and do appreciate the freebie and have enough space) there are a couple of considerations:
- the installer, on this occasion, does not provide an option to define the resultant directory - it goes to Cakewalk Content
- ~3 times the space is required for installation:
-- the downloaded installer
-- the temporary extraction files (auto cleaned after install)
-- the resultant destination
 
Yes, it could also be flagging an install status e.g. so CCC is 'aware' - dunno(?)

@ShellstaX... Thanks. That is very helpful.

Beepster

bandso
I just logged into my account through the website and looked under my products. The download link was there. After downloading I double clicked on the installer and let it do its thing. I looked in the start menu, but nothing was there, so I took a look in "c:\cakewalk content" and there was a folder there for the video (mp4) files. I just double clicked on it and Windows media player started and played it fine. (I'm on Win7)

See this is what's confusing me with some of the posts about this (well one thing). Why is there an installer for a video file? It's not a program... it's a video file. Normal you just "extract/unzip" the compressed folder and bingo bango... you have your vid files.
 
Is it actually an exe? And if so what exactly is it installing? Seems weird. Maybe a mini program to verify that Splat is installed? If so that's a little... erm... wacky.

Some larger compressed downloads are done as SFX files and are executables ending with .exe. They are self extracting archives. It's done in case the recipient doesn't have the program to decompress the archive.

I just downloaded it to my laptop. Thanks I am sure it will be great. I am SO glad I chose Cakewalk Sonar as my DAW, I really feel like I pitched in with the best. The best company and the best group of people (here on this form).
Thanks to everyone!
 
Julien

I really LOVE this tutorial. Nicely produced material and the explanation of each step makes perfect sense. I watch a lot of tutorials both free and paid for. While they are all useful, most of them are using Pro Tools as the DAW and third party plugins. I am happy to see Sonar flexing it's muscle with the INCLUDED plugins. Finally Sonar gets the love it deserves!
 
BTW... I hope that we get additional tutorials showing the mixing techniques of the other elements: bass, guitar, vocals, etc. Also, if we can get the session file (bundle), that would be awesome!!! Thanks Cake  

mudgel

Some larger compressed downloads are done as SFX files and are executables ending with .exe. They are self extracting archives. It's done in case the recipient doesn't have the program to decompress the archive.

Thanks. Now that I think back that explains a few things in regards to various large/bulk downloads I've dealt with in the past. Never quite understood why Microsoft doesn't include tools to uncompress some of these common formats but perhaps there are patent issues and they don't want to pay.
 
But they do have some kind of extracting thingie. Now I'm all curious what the differences/reasons are for all that. I did read up a little on RAR a while ago due to a specific set of files that needed me to install WinRAR. I guess I'm a little spoiled because I've only been doing computer stuff for less than a decade and a lot of these proprietary format/compatibility issues have faded (everything is becoming more homogenous and user friendly). I guess it really wasn't all that long ago you needed to acquire specific programs to perform what now are now considered very basic tasks.
 
That's kind of part of the reason I didn't even bother with computers for so long. More trouble and expense than they were worth to me. They still peeve me off but at least they have crossed the threshold of "annoyance/effort vs. benefit".
 
/ramble

I'll have a watch next weekend.
 
I hesitated to purchase the update to Sonar Platinum but I must say I'm glad I did, this isn't your standard "0 new feature while you pay" kind of subscription (Um Um Adobe, Avid).

I installed, where are the video files?  I'm going to go searching, but if anyone can point me to them I'd appreciated it.

The videos install in a  folder in "Cakewalk Content"
The default location for "Cakewalk Content" is "C:\Cakewalk Content"