Trying to do Sound Design with Sonar X3

Hello! I'm a long time hobbyist Sonar user and haven't been on this forum for a while. My hobby has gained a level up as I started Music Production studies last fall @ Tampere Univeristy of Applied Sciences.
 
Now I'm using Pro Tools along with Sonar because that is the number one DAW in our school. Using Pro Tools has really showed me how awesome DAW Sonar really is in many ways. But there are some strange issues I come across every now and then that make me worry if Sonar is a program I could use in future for professional work.
 
Sonar has been quite stable for me but I'm trying to do some Sound Design and it seems Sonar crashes quite easy if you stack 3-4 plugins in a clip fx bin regardless that I don't have anything else heavy going on in the project.
 
And as SFX are usually mono I try to make my recording split mono. Every time I do that this occurs:
 

 
I use the following method: select area -> track -> bounce to tracks -> bounce split mono as track as the source
The noise peak on the right channel appears always. Doesn't matter if I use different dithering or fast bounce off. This is not a major problem because the noise appears in the end of the file and can be avoided be having enough length for the wave + cutting of the end. And in the other hand I could just sum up the signal to mono but this might cause phase problems (?).
 
Then there's problems with video formats. I read that MOV support is restricted because of QuickTime not Sonar but then again ProTools handles the videos quite fine on the same machine.
 
Are there any people in this forum using Sonar for Sound Design? Does anyone else have similar problems? Or should I just stick with Pro Tools for SD? I really don't care for Pro Tools at all but at the moment it seems it might be a better tool for SD especially with video.

BTW do you encounter any of these problems mentioned here about QuickTime: http://betaforum.cakewalk.com/Documentation/default.aspx?Doc=SONAR%20X3&Lang=EN&Req=Playback.40.html ? I see you are on a 64bit system and the documention claims you can only export MOV if you're on a 32bit? I wonder if purchasing QT Pro will allow that.
 
EDIT: I installed K-lite codec pack and I have the free QuickTime player installed already. I tried to import a MOV file to Sonar and it works otherwise ok but the existing audio is not synced. Atleast my 64bit Sonar X3 doesn't allow exporting MOVs like said in the documentation. :(

markyzno
[...] I have the K-Lite codec pack [...] 

I downloaded and installed that pack after seeing this post (the mega pack, which is actually not that big). It immediately recommended removing directshow related codecs as they are known to be bad. I said yes (there were like 5), but when it got finished it removed close to 20 registry entries to these bad codecs. Unreal.
 
I finally got a moment to test out things in Premiere Pro, and suddenly importing/exporting is significantly easier. I thought my issue was the settings I was using, but was really the codecs.
 
I just wanted to throw this out there for others, as I have no idea where I picked up the ones I was using.

Thanks again, Marky... "golden nuggets" drop a lot in the forums, but you have to read everything to find them.
 
I will say that K-Lite's installer is one of the most impressive I have seen. I used the advanced installer just to see what it was doing, but is rare to find installers that clean up other program's "trash." I sort of got impatient at the end because it was popping up windows one by one as it scoured the registry (with suggestions on what to do for each). I began wondering, "How many times do I have to do this?" but in hind sight really appreciate how well that installer is written.