Look at the cheap Reaper and it's video handling. It plays/edits/exports any video format at any version of it (32bit/64bit). I can pay twice to have Reaper like video handling on Sonar. I'm scoring for picture everyday. And everyday I have to send video files to client to get quick feedback.  I don't want to spend my time converting videos. I just want to drag .mov file from dropbox to sonar, score my music and export there again as .mov file...

vlab


Hey Jscomposer ! 

I too have a mac with logic pro for some scoring gigs ... 

While the video management is wonderful compared to Sonar, 
the workflow is so bad.. that in the end, I think I prefer dealing with the issues of Sonar, 
rather than the ones from Logic. 

As for re-exporting the video with audio, I do it in Microsoft Movie maker now, it takes 2 clicks, 
and it works wonder. and it's free.. 

Now If I could find that codec+settings that would make Sonar snappier when dealing with video ... 

Cheers ! 

V

I hear you! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Sonar, but it just doesn't cut it for professional film scoring. If they pulled up their pants and put some effort into that side of things, I would gladly switch back. It's funny, I had a client over to my studio to check out some cues I had scored and....Sonar crashed (it was that one in a million thing!!!). He said "you don't use Mac?". That question haunted me for a long time,but I can attest that Mac has been good so far. Logic is a completely different workflow, but it just works.
 
Digital Performer 8 is coming out for Windows very soon...hopefully Cakewalk take the hint and and jump on the bandwagon for us film score guys!!!

Perhaps this is a stupit question but: is rewire a possibility to connect the video player to sonar x2?

jscomposer

I hear you! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Sonar, but it just doesn't cut it for professional film scoring. If they pulled up their pants and put some effort into that side of things, I would gladly switch back. It's funny, I had a client over to my studio to check out some cues I had scored and....Sonar crashed (it was that one in a million thing!!!). He said "you don't use Mac?". That question haunted me for a long time,but I can attest that Mac has been good so far. Logic is a completely different workflow, but it just works.
 
Digital Performer 8 is coming out for Windows very soon...hopefully Cakewalk take the hint and and jump on the bandwagon for us film score guys!!!

I'm watching for DP 8 but a first version on Windows scares me.  I checked them out and their "crossgrade" is the same price you would pay for the full version of Sonar or Cubase.  I'm thinking seriously about Cubase and especially watching for their newly announced notation initiative with the old Sibelius development team.

I wish touch screen technology wasn't invented. Maybe CW would focus on real points that we are interested in...

I work with video all the time using Sonar X2 64bit on win7.
I use vegas pro to render all videos to AVI and sonar handles them fine. Never use compressed video files cos they will just slow down the whole process.
best, joni

vintagevibe

jscomposer

I hear you! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Sonar, but it just doesn't cut it for professional film scoring. If they pulled up their pants and put some effort into that side of things, I would gladly switch back. It's funny, I had a client over to my studio to check out some cues I had scored and....Sonar crashed (it was that one in a million thing!!!). He said "you don't use Mac?". That question haunted me for a long time,but I can attest that Mac has been good so far. Logic is a completely different workflow, but it just works.

Digital Performer 8 is coming out for Windows very soon...hopefully Cakewalk take the hint and and jump on the bandwagon for us film score guys!!!

I'm watching for DP 8 but a first version on Windows scares me.  I checked them out and their "crossgrade" is the same price you would pay for the full version of Sonar or Cubase.  I'm thinking seriously about Cubase and especially watching for their newly announced notation initiative with the old Sibelius development team.

Yes, I also wondered about the Windows release....always better to wait until it's ironed out (and MOTU never has a demo for anything), so it would be a commitment for sure. The Cubase 7 trial (download) is really good, except you need a $30 dongle to use it. The video features are a little tricky and confusuing, but didn't spend much time with it.

jscomposer

Yes, I also wondered about the Windows release....always better to wait until it's ironed out (and MOTU never has a demo for anything), so it would be a commitment for sure. The Cubase 7 trial (download) is really good, except you need a $30 dongle to use it. The video features are a little tricky and confusuing, but didn't spend much time with it.

I have an old Syncrosoft dongle from Giagstudio (anyone remember that:>).  I know Steinberg bought Syncrosoft so I wonder if that will work?

@vintagevibe: Yes it will work just fine ! 

The only problem is that once you know Sonar ... it's hard to find a good reason to use Cubase ... lol ! 

Cheers ! 

V

Hey Randy,

  I have Vegas 12 and Vegas 9.  In Vegas 9 my computer spits out an Mpeg1 superfast,  and Sonar likes it.  Works really well.

I've experimented with what Vegas 12 exports (Mpeg1 is not an option) and have had mixed results.  

I'll try to find a successful pic file from Vegas 12 and report back.

Good luck