That's certainly no bad thing, as Burning ROM in particular is class-leading software, capable of tackling any disc authoring project.
It should be noted that all of these new Video features are available only in the Platinum edition.Īt the heart of the suite, the two disc-burning applications, Nero Burning ROM and Nero Express, seem completely unchanged. The new support for Ultra HD 4K video could prove useful. Nero Video can also add a dynamic soundtrack, scaled to the right length for a video segment, although the available options are predictably generic. Also useful is RhythmSnap, which scans music soundtracks and marks them with rhythm points to which other edits will subsequently 'snap', providing a neat way to synchronise sound and video. This is useful for emphasising the subject or making a scene look small.
Nero has given Video's interface a minor update and has added new options that include various tilt-shift effects for emulating a very shallow depth of field. RhythmSnap detects soundtrack rhythm points to which you can snap audio and video Alternatively you can specify custom resolution and quality settings. The options depend on whether you're converting audio or video, but the presets include mainstream devices such as the iPad mini, Samsung Galaxy S III and Google Nexus 4. It has a neat interface in which you choose the source file then select the device or DVD format for which you want the output files optimised. The latter job is the domain of Recode, which lets you create one or more video or audio transcoding tasks, add them to a queue and leave them running in the background or overnight. The suite's remaining apps are stronger, and together make a useful set of tools for anyone wanting to edit, view, burn or convert video to various formats. It's still not possible to queue music informally so that it starts after currently playing tracks, and you can't apply your own descriptive tags to songs. There are no options to upload to a photo-sharing service such as Flickr or Picasa, and while it's possible to burn media directly to a disc, the lack of a basket or similar device means it's a fiddle to select multiple songs and images. While it can sort photographs by criteria, including date and rating, the built-in editing options are limited to crops and straightening, red-eye removal, colour corrections and pre-configured effects such as sepia. Otherwise, MediaHome is little changed from its rather simplistic predecessor.