It will also sync to and send SMPTE/MTC for scoring external video, and output video to 1394 FireWire devices for high quality viewing with lower CPU and disk usage. Then, Sonar will export audio saved in several different flavors of WAV, MP3, Windows Media Audio, and export video in QuickTime and Windows Media Video, with stereo or 5.1 audio. This allows you to use its audio editing capabilities in sync with pre-existing video. Sonar's not designed for video editing, but it offers a real-time video track with a visible timeline, and the ability to import video in Windows Media Video, QuickTime, and MPEG formats.
But Cakewalk's latest version of its popular Sonar Producer Edition XP-based recording platform (puts a similar level of flexibility in the hands of home musicians. Since the 1990s, many professional recording studios have used Digidesign's Pro Tools platform to record digitally, which is great if you've got about $10,000 or so to get started. And it's the computer's ability to layer, edit, process and polish sounds that makes those scores possible.
Today, one-man band scores for video projects are much, much more common.
In the 1980s, musicians such as Vangelis or Jan Hammer who worked alone playing all the instruments to score a movie or a TV series, (Blade Runner and Miami Vice respectively), were quirky rarities. While the computer has revolutionized video editing, if anything, it's had an even more powerful impact on the audio side of production.