Re: Nero Burning ROM 15.0.25001 [Portable][Multi] 64 Bit
Kathryn Garivay
The Nero 12 suite includes seven bundled applications for video editing and conversion, media playback, and physical media burning and recovery. If you want to dig deeper into audio, Nero has spun off its audio tools (among others) as free downloads, with Nero WaveEditor to record and edit and Nero SoundTrax to digitize and mix music.
The suite is available in two editions, the core Nero 12, and the generous Nero 12 Platinum, which has extras to please all palates, including greater HD support with Blu-ray Disc, stabilizer effects plus, more themes, templates, and content for editing, and additional Kwik tools for accessing and sharing your media around your home and with mobile devices.
The Nero 12 physical media tools are focused on disc burning and backup, plus restoring damaged media. Nero Burning ROM is the venerable tool for copying and burning CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Discs, and disc images. For today's bigger media files and growing libraries, the DiscSpan (UDF) format can split oversized files and large collections of files across multiple discs.
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Got media? More and more consumers are facing growing collections of mediastuff -- music and photos and video -- and facing the desire to get organized,be creative, and share their digital content. But there are some many mediaformats, stored on a bewildering variety of mediums, and so many ways to share,electronic and on physical devices.
Thus the attraction of digital media software suites like Nero UltraEdition and Roxio Easy Media Creator, which have grown from theirorigins in CD copying and burning to add an array of tools for media management,editing, and sharing, along with more general data backup and archiving.
With each succeeding generation of these media suites, we also can see someof the strong trends that are driving digital media for consumers. In theprevious releases, in early 2007, these included the beginnings of the nextgenerations of video deliver: high-def video, tiny video for mobile devices, anduser-generated content on the Internet. And there was a strong emphasis onnetworked sharing, both between devices on the home network, and peer-to-peeracross the Internet.
But 2007 has seen the maturation of many of these themes (and availability ofconsumer-priced gear), with new HD camcorders and associated video formats,burners for next-gen Blu-ray and HD DVD discs, portable media player deviceslike the new Apple iPod nano and iPhone that are video-enabled to take yourcontent beyond the home, and the explosion of interest in Web video and siteslike YouTube. Plus, we've seen new processors and PC platforms, and WindowsVista, of course.
The releases of Nero 8 Ultra Edition and Roxio Easy Media Creator10 in late 2007 have picked up on all these trends, building in support forimporting and editing new formats, and sharing even more broadly across discs,portable devices, and electronically.
But all these new features results in piling on even more functionality toalready-bursting suites: Nero 8 now includes some 22 applications, and EMC 10has some 12 major applications plus 18 additional utilities/assistants. As aresult, these new versions have also focused on refining the user interface,especially with the new look of Windows Vista. They provide a main launcher /control panel to help users choose the task they want to achieve, and now buildin direct connections to the product websites for information and updates.
However, all this functionality also requires additional Windows tasks andservices to run in the background on your system, adding to the clutter that canslow down your system and cause conflicts. These include startup programs andservices to check for updates, verify you have legal software, continually scanyour system to catalog media files, and maintain the UPnP network connection forsharing media files.
For example, the Nero suite includes NeroCheck, NBKeyScan, Nero BackItUpScheduler Nero Scout to track media files, and InCD for packet writing access todiscs. And Easy Media Creator includes RoxWatchTray and DMXLauncher forCineplayer, plus RoxMediaDB, Roxio Hard Drive Watcher, Roxio UPnP Renderer,Roxio UPnP Server, and LiveShareP2P. One example of this complexity is thatRoxWatchTray caused boot-up to fail on my test system until it was disabled. Asa result, you may want to use MsConfig to simplify your startup by disablingcomponents that you don't need.
Roxio regards EMC 10 as a substantial upgrade its flagship suite of digitalmedia applications, with the focus to "enable consumers to quickly andeasily turn their photos, video and music into impressive multi-media projectsthat can be shared on CD, DVD, the Web, or a range of mobile devices."
The roots of the Easy Media Creator suite are still visible with CreatorClassic for disc burning, plus the core media editing applications, PhotoSuite, VideoWave, and MyDVD. EMC is particularly strong inthese core applications, with clean looks and functions, good integration andconsistency between applications, and strong help and on-line information.
But the full suite does include a lot of stuff -- 12 major applications plus18 additional utilities, actually mostly mini-assistants designed for specificfocused tasks. While you can launch the applications individually from the Startmenu, it's easier to start with the Roxio Central control panel to choose thetask that you want to perform.
The center Project Window then displays choices and operations for thecurrently selected task. Some tasks like Copy Disc are built in to RoxioCentral, and the bottom Control Panel displays the currently selecteddestination disc or hard drive, information about the active drive, and theaction to be performed. Otherwise, the control panel will launch the appropriateapplication to perform the selected task.
Roxio provides extensive built-in Help for EMC, plus links to deeper onlineresources. The center of the main Roxio Central screen displays a Web page withupdates and information from Roxio. Then click Resources to display tutorials,discussion groups, and contact information for more help. Also visit the RoxioMyMoments website for examples of how users can "make the most of theirdigital lives," with buying tips, step-by-step guides, and project examples(www.roxio.com/enu/solutions/mymoments).
Easy Media Creator centralizes the handling of all three digital media types(audio, images, video) into common applications for media organization andplayback plus media import. You can then edit, enhance, convert, and share mediafiles using the media-specific tools.
Use Media Manager to organize and view media files, with tools likesmart views and albums. And use Media Import as a common tool to recordand copy images, audio, video, and DVD titles. EMC also includes CinePlayerfor dedicated DVD playback, which now supports enhanced audio formats includingDolby Digital EX 6.1 surround, Pro Logic, and Dolby Headphone.
EMC 10 adds more support for mobile devices. Media Manager synchronizes to --and from -- portable devices. The photo tools correct common problems from cellphone cameras, and optimize photos for display on mobile devices.
The central audio tool in EMC is Sound Editor, to record audio, applyeffects, enhance, and convert formats (now with VST plug-ins). But the suite'sreal focus is working with music to create music discs, with Music Disc Creatorto import tracks, clean and edit, add song information, and then export or burnmusic compilations.
Again, EMC includes focused assistants to help share your photos, including SlideshowAssistant to create photo slide shows with audio and transitions (which youalso can send to VideoWave or MyDVD Express for further enhancements). UseCreate Panoramas to combine multiple overlapping photos, Photo Email Assistantto email photos or slideshows, or Photo Projects Assistant to createpersonalized calendars and greeting cards.
For video editing, the VideoWave timeline now supports up to 32overlay, audio and text effect tracks, and you can now upload projects directlyto YouTube. Or use CineMagic to automatically generate a polished moviefrom video clips and photos. For more focused tasks, use Video Copy &Convert to copy entire DVDs, or to create video compilations to files, disc,and portable devices.
For authoring productions to DVD, EMC includes the full MyDVD, plus MyDVDExpress for quick burns of movies or slideshows to disc, with customizablemenu styles. Or use Plug and Burn to capture direct from DV tape to DVDdisc. There's also Label Creator to make disc labels, inserts, sleeves, and casecovers.
Then use Retrieve to browse and extract files from these archives,especially when split across multi-disc archives or encrypted. Use BackOnTrackfor scheduled backups of selected files. There's also a Disc Image Loaderutility to create and load emulated discs on hard disk.
Nero has reworked the interface for consumer ease of use, and focused on"extending content beyond the PC" with "easy-to-use features forthe creation, management, and protection of multimedia projects" -- Tocreate and edit, convert and share, rip and burn, and backup and protect digitalmedia.
The roots of the Nero suite are in the deep Nero Burning ROMapplication for CD and DVD burning, plus a variety of helpful tools for drivetesting and information. But Nero also has bulked up its suite of media editingand disk backup applications. And it has continued to emphasize media managementand sharing across a home network.
The suite has core tools for media editing -- Nero WaveEditor, NeroPhotoSnap, Nero Vision -- plus separate tools for related tasks, suchas Nero SoundTrax for audio mixing and Nero Recode for videoconversions. The result is a broad suite with deep features and options,particularly for disc burning, but sometimes confusing inconsistencies in howyou deal with similar operations on different media types -- viewing, editing,converting, and sharing.
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