Video integration with Sonar X2a Producer on Windows 7 Pro 64 bit

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I googled ‘convert mov to avi’ and found a number of conversion programs including some free ones like this:

 http://download.cnet.com/...0-2194_4-10798308.html

Good luck.

MarioD


I googled ‘convert mov to avi’ and found a number of conversion programs including some free ones like this:

http://download.cnet.com/...0-2194_4-10798308.html

Good luck.

Yea I went and Googled converters and if you read the reviews on that piece of software you will notice it is malware. That is the exact thing I want to avoid. I would like to know, from people that have done this with Sonar X2, what is the best way to handle it. Obviously, installing malware on my PC is not something I would like to do.


For the other poster that said that using an audio editor to line up the audio in the video is less of a pain than the video editor well....yea....I got that. It is why I asked the question in the first place cause using Premiere Elements to do it was just plain awful.

+1 on the Sony Movie Studio Software package.  

Even their lowest junior version (which you can buy and downloadoff of the sonycreativesoftware site) is better, to me, than most of the other NLEs (non-linear editors) out there.  I'm using Movie Studio Platinum 12 Suite and it comes bundled with a lot of effects. even though I have used their expensive full version Vegas editions.  I have sync'd many an audio to video using it. Be sure to turn off the snap to grid function in Movie Studio when lining up the waveforms.  There are many ways to do the music video type thing.  You can record directly into Sonar as you record the video like you said, or I often do the more famiiar music video thing where you record the video "lip syncing" vocals or "perform playing syncing" to the music recorded prior in Sonar.  I've even done multiple screens and it works quite well.  Of course I let the Sonar track play in the background while recording video so I can sync it up manually with the video/auidio tracks in "post production".  It does work very well, BTW.  I use two Canon HD video cameras (consumer grade, not the high end stuff) as well as a Kodak Zi8 and get great 1080p results with high quality audio.
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K-Lite Codec Pack works well with Sonar x64. No problems opening H.264 or pretty much anything else you throw at it once you install the codecs. Make sure you grab the 64-bit pack if you do it.

http://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

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I wouldn't attempt to use Sonar for video work (unless X2 has delivered a radical change). Another strong vote for Sony Vegas from me: it's stable, inexpensive and performs much, much better than Adobe Premiere. Lining up audio and video is reasonably easy: particularly if you set the time ruler to measures and beats rather time code.  

I use Sony Vegas as well. I use the platinum edition. I will only use sonar to edit audio. If I am doing a music video I will export from vegas in AVI and import into sonar. Once the audio is done I export that from Sonar and import that into vegas and hook the two together. Vegas does the final render.

Vegas has a lot of cool editing features and transitions but the real cool thing about the platinum is that it comes with Sound Forge as well. For some reason exporting anything out of Sonar other then wave does not sound good when I use dither. In fact I get the best export from using Wav microsoft. then I import that file into Sound Forge to get the other audio formats like mp3. I get much better sounding mp3 formats by converting wav from sound forge. I don't know why?

Well I ordered Vegas Pro 12 from Amazon. Hopefully that should work pretty well. Thanks for the helpful suggestions made in here. I will stick with using Sonar just for audio alone as suggested and I really liked the idea of making visible transients on the audio track to serve as alignment tool. I will keep in mind the codec suggestions also. Lots to learn.