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Nero 8 Ultra Edition
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List Price: $99.95
Our Price: $59.74
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Manufacturer: Nero Inc.
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Nero Inc.
EAN: 0658657800186
Feature: Organize and manage all your multimedia files and create/edit new digital content with ease
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Nero Inc.
Manufacturer: Nero Inc.
Model: 800087
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Nero Inc.
Release Date: 2007-09-01
Studio: Nero Inc.
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Features
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Organize and manage all your multimedia files and create/edit new digital content with ease
User-friendly and intuitive StartSmart interface; One-click Rip, Burn and Copy functions
Easy export and share to YouTube, MySpace and My Nero; Stream to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
High Definition format support
Backup files to CDs, DVDs, HD DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs
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Customer Rating:
Summary: A Good Product, but hardly worth the upgrade price
Comment: Nero 8 Ultra Edition is the next submission in a long line of upgrades to the venerable line of cd/dvd editing/authoring software. If you have a high def. video camcorder or other more recent hardware, the upgrade price may be worth your while to upgrade--for me I have found it not worth it. Perhaps it is worth it for more Vista compatibility though, even though I don't use the special Vista features.
Pros: You can do a little of just about any type of DVD/CD/VIDEO editing with this software--but don't expect Pinnacle Studio or Sony Vegas Studio features. Greater Vista compatibility with some Vista features. There is a slight improvement to the user interface. Directly upload to YouTube and other video sharing websites.
Cons: Requires you to buy more licenses for more than one PC even if not used concurrently. Jack of all trades, but master of none--lacks the high end features in most cases that advanced users crave. Downloading updates for the boxed version essentially turns it into the download version of Nero 8. The main drawback to this is that your documentation (which is poorly done at best) is whiped out rendering you help button and drop down useless. If you want to consult a manual you have to download each one and open them separately. There is no printed manual to speak of included in the boxed version, and for a $100 peice of software I find that unacceptable. I also was inelligible for upgrade prices because I'd previously purchased the download version.
Conclusion: I find the fact that updates whipe out my help menu totally unaccepatable. I doubt I will upgrade to the next version. If you're running XP and have version 7 the price for an upgrade may not be worth the price of admission.
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Summary: Nero 8 Ultra good features but very slow to load
Comment: I have been a staunch Nero user since v5.5. Most recently I had Nero 7 Ultra installed on my Core-2 Duo, XP Pro system with a SONY DVD Writer. Being very pleased with Nero 7, I upgraded to Nero 8 Ultra. Big Mistake!
I recommend that if you are on Nero 7, don't upgrade unless you absolutely have to.
Nero 8 Ultra's GUI doesn't resize correctly when used with a high resolution monitor mode (I use 1600 x 1200) and leaves out some areas in the GUI. If they have the buttons in that area, then you're toast.
Any of the Nero applications take an inordinately long time to load. Having loaded, some take some more time before they can start working. [this on a fast system with terrabytes of SATA-II drive space and 4 GB fast DDR2 RAM and a Core-2 Duo 2GHz processor]
I am particularly annoyed with Showtime that takes a half minute to load and another half minute before it will play any media file. All the time performing a rather cheesy and irritating count-up several times in the video window regardless of whether you are playing audio or video media.
I won't even go into the other issues I had as they seem to be covered by other reviewers here.
On the flip side, there are a great many fundamental improvements that get lost under th really bad user interface. The burning ROM and express perform very well and are fast and I have had a 100% success in burning all my CD's and DVD's so far.
Even Showtime, when it does play does an excellent job at playing back video. There is a noticeably cleaner video and HD video playback is supported as well. You can also watch MP-4 and FLV from You Tube, etc. If you have any clips left over from before they started blocking downloads.
The Recode function also does very well. I used some old You Tube music video FLV files lying around my drive to create a DVD and I was amazed by the quality of the video. My Camcorder video also turns out very well.
There is a pretty good editor for both Audio and Video provided [I have AvidFreeDV and Pinnacle for video and SONY sound forge and acid for audio as well so I don't use those parts much]
Both the editing features still have some way to go before they are comparable to other commercial or even open source pure editing softwares. I must say that you do get a whole bunch of powerful features, although the user interface and flexibility of those features leave much to be desired.
InCD works and could read my old CD/RW and DVD/RW from the previous version.
Couldn't use the Home entertainment section as my capture cards or TV tuners are not compatible. I don't really care about that part anyway.
In short, Nero 8 Ultra adds some great features. However, those features come at a steep price. Slow to load applications, slow loading of media files and not very flexible user interface.
I tried to keep this review as balanced as possible even though I am furious with Ahead for letting us long time Nero users down. Hope this review helps you make your decision.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great software but only load what you need
Comment: I've only been using Nero 8 for a couple of days but so far it's exceeded my expectations. I ordered it in spite of a lot of negative reviews but took advice from those who warned only to load specific apps that you need. The result was it only took minutes to load on my Vista laptop. I'm using Nero Vision to burn Blu-Ray format HD on normal 4 gig DVD's & it works great. My advice is to do all of the more detailed editing on dedicated editing software such as Studio 11 & render to 1080i mp2 & then import to Nero Vision for final processing.
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Summary: Useful functions, but with unexpected error
Comment: This program has wonderful functions especially in video editing which people do not expect much from CD-burning program.
Only one glich is that this program seems to use a lot of memory resource and consiquently runs a little bit slow and is sometimes terminated only leaving error message.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Product, very easy to use .
Comment: Nero 8 Ultra is very easy to use, makes backup easier, and does all the conversions for you. Great product.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Nero 8 Ultra Edition gives you a suite of easy-to-use tools to meet your digital lifestyle needs. You can record live TV, convert non-copy-protected DVD files to play on your iPod, capture high definition video, share your photos and videos online, mix your music, edit your videos and photos, backup your files or system, burn any media and playback all popular formats from the Nero StartSmart interface which provides One-Click functions, efficiency and speed for completing your tasks. Have fun creating and editing music in popular formats, mix songs, and add professional sound effects and transitions Burn your content into AVCHD format and experience High Definition on your PC with Nero ShowTime 3, in Blu-ray Disc players and on the PlayStation 3 Edit and enhance your photos (redeye correction, crop, rotate, adjust, enhance) Create, Share and Burn entertaining slideshows with special effects, templates, transitions and music Import and share your digital content from YouTube, My Nero and My Space Convert your audio and video to MPEG-4 (Nero Digital) by compressing and converting your media files to your preferred formats Stream content to your Xbox 360 and stream Internet TV and radio Integrated TV, DVD, music and video streaming, recording and playback Turn your PC into a PVR with integrated time shifting, TV recording, picture in picture display and watch one channel while recording another Support for DVD-R Dual Layer format and DVD+R Double Layer Restore files after a system crash the way it was in the event of a complete system failure Backup options to disc, hard disk, image recorder, LAN or FTP Recover your data from damaged discs with integrated SecurDisc technology
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