Evolution, not revolution 1

Evolution, not revolution 1

Nero Platinum 2015 (CD-ROM)

Customer Review

I am a die-hard users since Nero 5 and have been through all the ups and downs of recent releases. Again, some wishes of customers were again considered and incorporated. Whether this, however, is the most desirable features, everyone must decide for themselves.

Start menu:
The Start menu is a matter of taste and is used by me rather less. Where now the difference with Nero should lie in 2014, not quite open up to me. Also here simply displaying'm missing in the window. An automatic fullscreen to the flair of Windows may capture 8 Start menu to be a nice thing for touch devices (tablets), I find personally superfluous (Windows 10 there will be again in the familiar look, as most of this is not really ergonomically found).
Conclusion: matter of taste

Copying and burning:
Nero Burning ROM and Nero Express:
I think about the internal features of Nero Burning ROM does not need to say much to. Every slight adjustment can be done in according to your wishes. Also functions as DiscSpan (let the ever so slightly distribute backups across multiple media) or SecurDisc (to hedge their own data for archiving or transfer to third parties). Nevertheless, there are a few small drawbacks that I miss for years. The first is too short for naming discs, although officially still more characters are supported. This works better in other programs. The second point concerns the ribs of music, which here rather less Nero, but rather the music industry is to blame. It is now no longer possible to write album art directly in the tags of MP3 or M4A files, but there is freeware. Nevertheless shame. Positive, however, is that it is the last function M4A container in the CD-Rip (* .mp4 is recognized by many smartphones as a video file), and also the bit rate selection has improved significantly.
An absolute novelty is the ability to burn data directly from your phone, but it still I go later in the Apps.
Nero Express is suitable for the fast burn data, video, or music and presents itself as simple as ever. Even for beginners who do not want having trouble with the extensive settings Burning ROM, it is the first choice to burn their data.
Conclusion: Nero Burning ROM provides the usual good burning features as ever, can be used also as fast fool and remains in this software genre leader. Super is the function of the wireless data burning via WiFi with the app. Nero Express is fast or occasional burning sessions for both beginners and advanced alike easy to use.

Edit and convert:
Nero Video:
In Nero Video it is likely no major changes since 2014 Nero. Who knows the direct predecessor (since Nero 12), feels in the processing quickly at home. There is the Express Mode for beginners and advanced Intermediate, which then allows multiple video and audio tracks (CAUTION: Not multiple language tracks that can be selected afterwards). The new features include eg new templates for menus and some nice new effects. 4K is supported can be exported to MPEG-4 / AVC (* .mp4). The new HEVC (H.265) is not currently supported. The most important innovation, however, is probably that you now always can change the project format during disc editing. If you want to z. B. would prefer a DVD instead of Blu-ray to create, so you had to previously create a new project and make the changes again. Well enough a small pressure on the button "Disk Format" and you get a choice with the appropriate media. The menus and videos are then adjusted according to the new format. That's the way it has to be. The package with extended menu templates also is only Platinum-owners available. Whether you really need this, is another question, as well as the download is relatively large.
All in all, as usual with Nero Video.

But where there is light, there is shadow. The "faster" conversion works for nVidia cards currently only with newer cards that dominate NVENC acceleration. But this is not due to Nero but to the lack of driver support for older cards by nVidia. One solution is to either use an old driver that still supports CUDA acceleration or a current driver with a modification as it is to get in Guru3D forum. For other graphics cards there should be no problems. Intel Quick Sync (currently delivers the best image quality with hardwarebescheunigter coding) and AMD APP are supported. Furthermore, the hardware acceleration is reserved as its predecessors only to export. Disc projects continue to support only software coding and need accordingly until they finally are on the disk. Too bad. Some export formats are unfortunately still treated very neglected. So the export to AVI has a maximum resolution of 720x576 pixels and does not support AC3 audio. The creation of 3D projects is not possible at present, but also verschmerzlich. 3D images with the camcorder can still be imported. They are then taken in 2D. Although extremely frequently requested, is still missing in the preparation of projects, multi-audio track or subtitle function. That is that you have to decide in advance what you want to hear in the video later. ;)

Conclusion: The video editing, creating projects and exporting video works well accustomed with Nero Video. The possibility of project format change will accommodate many users and the new effects are convincing. Until missing on some points verschmerzbaren Nero Video is therefore suitable for amateur filmmakers.

Nero Recode:
Recode was formerly (until Nero 10) used by me conversion program. With many options for video output. Unfortunately, this has changed since Nero 11. Nevertheless, it must be said that has, unlike its predecessors did anything.
Nero Recode was previously not as intuitive for the average user due to the profile selection and settings, has fundamentally changed this. You can tell that Nero is more aligned to the "simple" user. Who wants to get the last ounce of quality in terms of space from the encoding, but is perhaps better served by other software. Because of the often mentioned in the forum "Expert Mode" or "Advanced Mode" for experienced video encoder is also one more time.
Nevertheless, Nero Recode provides results that can be seen. However, it should also look at the video bit rate as a beginner of the target format and consider whether these need to be really high. Leaving these in the basic settings, large files are mostly produced. Anyone who knows not really good at bit rates, but can also specify a manual target. Recode then optimize the other parameters.
The audio track can now be returned to the adjust volume, which is a great help especially with some Dolby Digital tracks.
The predefined device profiles have some new ones joined, so that the most common devices of each class are supported. Encoding video to audio formats is also possible and also supports lossless formats (such as FLAC, APE, AAC or HD MP3HD).
Also convert the most popular video format is possible for Nero 2014.
The Making videos by 90 ° is also possible if one has taken on edge to the mobile phone for example.
The advanced encoder settings (eg the profile settings for H.264) meet the standard.

Negative is unfortunately still that the much-cherished desire to support Blu-ray subtitles is still not implemented (play as perhaps the film industry?). Also not own subtitle files can be integrated into the output file since Nero 11.
Easy incomprehensible is the unequal treatment of output formats. So it is not possible at the output AVI files to include multiple audio tracks let alone a subtitle track. Is used here, however, the MP4 container with MPEG-4 / ASP Video (H.263), these options are supported. Also can be adjusted just as MP3 audio format at AVI, although a AC3 passthrough would also be possible here.
The bit rate support for the audio tracks is however really bad, even if it has improved compared to its predecessors. There is still a considerable need for action. Thus, for example, for HE-AAC 5.1 only option 96 kbit / s to choose. This is much too low for surround sound even with HE-AAC, a minimum would be here 128 kbit / s. Since I'm still hoping for an update.
Furthermore, it was previously to be made a trimming on the chapter selection, so to convert, for example, only 2 chapters of the source video. This possibility is 11 not seen since Nero. Here you have the points looking at the video and either use the slider under the video preview or to enter the dates for the beginning and end manually.
When hardware acceleration occurs with nVidia cards on the same problem as with Nero Video.
4K is supported - but only during import. The output supports a maximum current 1080p, but I did not personally find so tragic.

Conclusion: Even if this were mentioned some negative aspects, is Nero Recode broadly just for the average user a wonderful tool to convert holiday pictures, etc. for mobile devices. The pre-defined device profiles help and the output quality is impressive. Versirte users who love to play around with encoder settings, however geared more to other software, since it simply lacks an expert mode for options like in the old days.

Manage and Play:
Nero MediaHome:
This is where the new media center of Nero. I can not say much about it because I hardly use it. Manage my media files quite old-fashioned about the Windows Explorer. Videos and photos can now be provided with geo-tagged, so you know where that photo was taken. So you can for example search for locations and immediately finds all photos and videos that have been recorded there. Also tagging people is possible, so you can view all the photos with a specific person, for example. Who uses the cloud service of Nero BackItUp, also has instant access to photos or videos stored there. Thus, here are some new features were developed. The stream to my TV works well without any problems and can be implemented easily play. Furthermore, can now be streamed over an app every video easy. More on that later.

Nero Blu-ray Player:
Playback of Blu-ray has now been outsourced (since Nero 2014). Since I have a stand-alone 3D player, I use this function rather less. However, I now had to not have any problems with the Blu-ray playback. Only the establishment of the 3D playback on my TV does not work really, even though everything is set up correctly. This can be for me, however, get over due to the stand-alone player.

Nero Media Browser:
The Media Browser displays the contents of all selected in MediaHome folder and can be used for quick selection of videos and pictures both in Nero Video and Nero Recode.

Conclusion: Since I use the MediaHome function rather less, I can allow no real judgment me about Nero MediaHome, Blu-ray players and Media Browser. I have tested the applications and they work for me just as they are (except for the 3D playback). If you have no media management, can still items, take a look here.

Backup and Data Recovery:
Nero BackItUp:
First of all, there is a free and a paid version with advanced features (eg, automated backups). Again, I'm old-fashioned and take my backups manually. If you want to Go, may indeed go to the Nero page and look at the product description. The cloud service I do not use because I basically do not store my information online.

Nero RescueAgent:
With Nero RescueAgent you can share files from damaged discs and drives to restore or partially illegible or deleted files. Since I until now not need the function, I can say about this feature, unfortunately, nothing.

Conclusion: Can I unfortunately do not really exist, because simply I do not use the functions.

Nero Apps:
Nero offers a total of 8 apps for Android and iOS, 5 of which are instructions.
Nero instructions for: Nero Burning ROM, Nero Express, Nero MediaHome, Nero Video, Nero Recode. Whether you absolutely need instructions on his smartphone, each is left to itself. Anyway, they serve their purpose and help may also continue, as part of videos linked.

Nero AirBurn app:
An absolute novelty and easy to use. Simply select the files that you want to burn, select the disc format and then press "Burn Now". Now select the PC as the destination (Nero Burning ROM must be running on the computer) and the rest is done automatically. For quick data backup a really cool idea. It would be desirable, however, a setting for the burning rate. Otherwise top!

Nero MediaHome Receiver app:
With this app any old videos on any Android or iPhone can be played, because the videos are automatically transcoded into the appropriate format. Unfortunately, the streaming works with me currently not really, but is under investigation. Simply start the video on your computer, your smartphone (app must be running) Select the target display and the video is streaming.

Nero MediaHome WiFi Sync app:
This app has been around longer. This can be videos and photos, which are managed by Nero MediaHome, synchronize between computer and smartphone.

Conclusion: Whether you really need the instructions on your phone, everyone must decide for themselves. The 3 other apps extend the functionality of the Nero Suite, however, make sense. Especially the AirBurn feature is awesome.

Overall conclusion: As the title suggests, there are in Nero 2015 Platinum no spectacular changes over the previous version. However, some useful features such as Apps or the On-the-fly-project change in Nero Video Added. Total 2015 Nero Platinum thus a balanced multimedia suite, which leaves nothing to be desired. No other software is currently composed of the managing, playback, backup and burning in a package as it does Nero.

Who I would therefore recommend Nero 2015 Platinum? Due to the marginal new features compared to the predecessor Nero have 2014 Platinum owners decide whether the additional effects, changing the type of project in Nero Video, and the apps worth as an additional bonus or not. All others who either have an older version (to Nero 12) or even possess any version of Nero, I advise to access because here then but a real added value is offered.

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