I've been using SONAR (well, Cakewalk!) since the 90s when it was on floppy disks from Twelve-tone Systems. I am now using SONAR X3 Producer (64bit) and love it. However with an increase in video work I am considering moving to Digital Performer which is now available for PC. If more scoring-to-video features are in the works for SONAR I would love to know about them and I would stay with SONAR. 
 
Some of the things that are missing in Sonar for me are scoring items like a conductor track, streamers and punches, and
"find tempo" which allows you to hit cue points accurately and easily. I've been using Frans Absil's external program "Film Music Tempo Calculation Tool": http://www.fransabsil.nl/htm/eventhit.htm  - why not incorporate something similar into SONAR? The ability to slide the video track left and right freely would be an advantage as well.
 
I never render video from SONAR and really don't need that. 
 
I do like the expanded types of video files that can be used in SONAR now. The addition of .mp4 helps a lot!
 
So I'd rather not have to face the learning curve of DP and would love to have these few features included in SONAR.
 
Cheers!

I'm with you! I score to video everyday and especially not being able to slide the video left and right is a major pain...If I need to start music before the picture it would be a big help to simply slide the video to the right. I know you can set time in and time out, but would be so much easier just to scoot it to the right and not worry about the time code. 

+1000 to all the above! 
I really do love Sonar and it keeps getting better with every update... but a few more features and improvements for working to picture would be amazing - and might help me convince some of my colleagues the same 
 
 

I'm going to put this post in the "Feedback Loop > Features and Ideas" forum as well. If any developers are working on more scoring features maybe they'll post there. I'd love to pay for the "lifetime upgrades" and if scoring features are in the works it would be a done deal.

reberclark
The ability to slide the video track left and right freely would be an advantage as well.

Just an FYI - you can do that now, but only with the DirectShow media platform selected as the default, and with native Windows formats (AVI and WMV). 

You don't want to move to DP anyway, not the PC version, though its been 6 months or so since I was in a studio that used the mac version, still like sonar Plat better. I still have my cakewalk guitar tracks 8 for windows 3.1 lol and god I hated that program, did better writing a program in DOS to record with.

Anderton

reberclark
The ability to slide the video track left and right freely would be an advantage as well.

Just an FYI - you can do that now, but only with the DirectShow media platform selected as the default, and with native Windows formats (AVI and WMV). 

I had forgotten that. Most of the footage I am scoring to is in an mp4 wrapper for convenient exchange. It would be nice to be able to slide mp4s and movs as well. Plus, after a week of evaluating DP I'm concluding that it has very little more to offer than SONAR.

trgtdron
You don't want to move to DP anyway, not the PC version, though its been 6 months or so since I was in a studio that used the mac version, still like sonar Plat better. I still have my cakewalk guitar tracks 8 for windows 3.1 lol and god I hated that program, did better writing a program in DOS to record with.

I've had the DP Trial for a week and SONAR is much better. The differences I am seeing in the scoring tools are so small that I'm almost ready to conclude I'm sticking with SONAR.

Anderton

reberclark
The ability to slide the video track left and right freely would be an advantage as well.

Just an FYI - you can do that now, but only with the DirectShow media platform selected as the default, and with native Windows formats (AVI and WMV). 

Unfortunately those formats are dinosaurs for anyone even semi-pro in video.
 
Would love to see some updates to Sonar as it relates to working with video.  

So Craig...you're saying that sliding the video forward and backwards is possible with WMV and AVI? How do I set that up in Sonar? Thanks for the help!