• SONAR
  • Sonar Home Studio - importing video
2017/09/12 16:57:29
mdjohnson502
When I use the import video feature in Sonar Home Studio, I see the audio track, but can't find any way to see the video. Is that not supported?
2017/09/13 03:57:37
bvideo
Try Views > Video. Also [Track view] View > Video Thumbnails to see thumbnails in a video track. Though I don't know if Home Studio does these things.
2017/09/13 13:18:03
mdjohnson502
No such view in Home Studio that I can see. Thanks for the suggestion.
2017/09/13 14:50:52
Cactus Music
There is no where in the promo documentation that say's HS does video. 
I just checked my version and the Video view is missing where it normally is easily found in Pro or Splat. 
2017/09/13 15:11:39
mdjohnson502
Man, if it's not supported, why even have an Import Video option?! I found a Cakewalk press release when they announced HS, and it says "Whether you want to make beats, record a band, compose video soundtracks, upload directly to social media, play along with backing tracks, or write the next hit song, Sonar Home Studio is the most direct way to realize your creative vision." Can't find any mention of importing video in the documentation that applies to HS. Irritating!

The press release:
https://www.cakewalk.com/...e-of-SONAR-Home-Studio
2017/09/13 15:26:00
scook
I do not know the meaning of the dark grey indicators in the comparison table for Video Import/Export and Video view. It might be worth an email to support for clarification. I could not find any notations in the documentation regarding SHS and video. Usually when a feature is not available in a certain version of SONAR there is a note in the documentation.
2017/09/13 16:00:39
Cactus Music
This is it. I've never used the video feature of Sonar but I have often opened that view by mistake. 
It's plainly not there in HS , I checked.  The " Make soundtracks for videos" might be referring to the audio, not the video. 
 
Some of the confusion is that they did not make help files for HS, you are using the same documents that all versions use so it is left up to you to sort out what features you have. I myself have no issue with this as it's never a huge surprise to go to use a fancy feature and it's just not there. I really didn't expect  much for only $50. There's a very short list of missing features for what I do. 
 
If that feature is important to you then I guess you'll need to upgrade to Artist, this is the nature of price points for all software. 
If they do anything to make this clear they should add "Video" to the "Versions" list. 
http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/SONAR/Versions#start
 
2017/09/13 16:30:05
mettelus
Cactus Music

It's plainly not there in HS , I checked.  The " Make soundtracks for videos" might be referring to the audio, not the video. 
 


Um, who makes a soundtrack without being able to mate it to the video? That doesn't even make sense. The greyed out text in the comparison chart for HS is just odd... no explanation and not present in any other products.
2017/09/13 16:47:47
DrLumen
Yeah, that seems to be a shady bit of marketing but, by the same token, you could create sound tracks for games but no one would expect the game to be loaded into HS.
2017/09/13 17:00:04
Seth Kellogg [Cakewalk]
Full video support is not currently implemented in SHS.

We're working on a maintenance release that will be adding video back in along with updating a few other components.  Work on this was delayed because of the scope of a few SONAR updates, but it's still on our roadmap. 
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