I was suggesting moving the video to the project folder BEFORE starting to work with the video in Sonar.  This way, Sonar would always associate the video location as within the project folder - because your project would be pointing at the video in the project folder to begin with.  
 
Now, if that step is not something you want to do, that's fine, but it should work, nonetheless - and you would not subsequently lose a path to the video.
 
The library 'Link' approach should also work, I would think.
 
And, the simplest method is as posted above, to always keep videos in the same place, like as suggested, in C:\Videos or wherever.
 
Bob Bone
 

Bob I did try starting with the video in the project file. Didn't work when I moved it.
I started with the folder on my D drive. 
Moved the complete Folder to my E drive. Project opened fine but said no video. Sound worked, video didn't show
Sonar handles video files differently than audio files. 
But if you have time and try it on your system and it works let me know. 
 
I do usually keep the video files in one place. But when I go to archive later they will be moved. Hopefully I won't have to open them, if I do I'll reimport. 
 
 
 

To keep the video and audio in a single project directory and relocate the directory, this will work:
 
Assume for this example the current project directory is "d:\Cakewalk Projects" and the archive directory is "e:\Archived Cakewalk Projects"
 
1) Create a directory "d:\Cakewalk Projects\vidtest"
 
2) Copy the video into "d:\Cakewalk Projects\vidtest"
 
3) Open SONAR create a new audio project in the vidtest subdirectory. The directory structure for this project is:
d:\Cakewalk Projects\vidtest - this is where the video is stored
d:\Cakewalk Projects\vidtest\vidtest - this is where the cwp file is stored
d:\Cakewalk Projects\vidtest\vidtest\audio - per-project audio files are stored
 
4) In SONAR, import the video from videst directory
 
5) Shutdown SONAR
 
6) Move the vidtest directory from "d:\Cakewalk Projects" to "e:\Archived Cakewalk Projects"
 
7) Open cmd.exe type
mklink /j "d:\Cakewalk Project\vidtest" "e:\Archived Cakewalk Projects\vidtest"
 
8) Open SONAR and load vidtest project
 

I apologize profusely.
 
I had tested this out before, but hadn't realized that I had left the original project folder in place, even though I had created a new copy of that project on a different drive.
 
So, opening the project from the new location, the video still played fine, but in actuality had been pointing back to the original location, despite the video coming along to the new location.
 
When I went back to double check everything, and realized I had left the original project folder intact, I deleted the original project folder, went back to open the project from the new location, and indeed the audio plays, but the video is toast.
 
I had a flawed situation in place when I made my earlier suggestion that this would work.
 
I withdraw that earlier suggestion, and will strive to do better at setting up testing of concepts prior to recommending them, in the future.
 
I do NOT like the hard-coded internal location information method of pointing at imported video.  I think it should either give you a way to modify the location of the video for the project somewhere, or offer to save a local copy of the video in a Video sub-folder of the project folder (like with audio clips), or in some other way enable some way of telling it that the video has moved.  BAKERS????? 
 
Perhaps they could create a new entry in Preferences, at the Project level, for a path to video for the project, and during project open, check to see if the new path field had been populated already, and if not - take the hard-coded path it had been using before and populate the new path field with that location, as a starting point.  If then the video is not found, a 'locate video' dialog could supply the means of entering a new location for the video, and the new location used to populate the Video Path field in Project-level Preferences.
 
Bob Bone
 
 
 

To use a global video directory and relocate the video after importing into SONAR this will work:
 
Assume the global video directory is c:\video and the video archive directory is "e:\video archive"
 
1) Create c:\video\vidtest and copy the video into the directory
 
2) Open SONAR and create a project in the normal way, importing the video from c:\video\vidtest, then shutdown SONAR
 
3) move the vidtest directory from c:\video to "e:\video archive"
 
4) Open cmd.exe type
mklink /j "c:\video\vidtest" "e:\video archive\vidtest"
 
5) Open SONAR and load vidtest project. Note: the location of the vidtest project does not matter, it will always look for the video in "c:\video\vidtest" which now points to the archive location.
 
 
 

Hey Scook
Thanks for the tips. I will look at that .
 
Bob
Don't stress. We all make mistakes. I sure do. I appreciate you giving your time and chiming in with ideas.