Nero 7 Premium

Enables you to experience your digital media in completely new and innovative ways Nero 7 Premium enables the user to experience digital media in completely new innovative ways. With the addition of a Nero Home media manager, you can now have the complete PC and TV experience. Whether you want to access your media files from the comfort of your living room, or complete digital media projects on your PC, Nero 7 Premium is all you need.

Now, with more features than ever before, this powerful software can transform your digital photos into professional animated slideshows, backup all of your valuable data, manage or search your media files, edit video or photos, create DVDs (including menus), and stream your files over a media server, and compress files to take on the go. Beginners and experts alike will be amazed by what one solution can do. Really, it's that good.

Your own personal Hollywood movie studio
If you've ever wanted to turn your old home videos into Hollywood quality movies, you now can with Nero 7 Premium among many other digital media projects: create your own professional DVDs, compose beats, edit videos with transitions and menus, compress to various profiles (Mobile, Portable, Standard, Cinema and HDTV), burn a CD/DVD, design CD labels, and much more. These are just some of the ways that Nero 7 Premium can help you explore your creative side.

Save and Restore with BackItUp 2
Backup your entire system up on spanning over several CDs/DVDs, schedule an automatic backup with Job Scheduler, drag and drop the files you want to save, create an FTP backup, or password protect your data. Whichever you choose, Nero 7 makes sure that your important files stay right where you need them.

Make your memories last a lifetime and then some!
The days of storing your photos in huge, heavy photo albums are over. With Nero 7 Premium, you can store, manage and edit all of your digital photos with ease. In addition to that, you can turn your photos and videos into slideshows, add transitions and music, burn them to DVD, and then give them to friends and family to watch on their DVD players.

Now supports Blu-ray technology.
Nero 7 Premium now gives you the ability to burn your data to BD-RE and BD-R (Blu-ray) media, which enables you to store enormous amounts of data (25-50 GB) onto a single disc.

Here are some key features of "Nero 7 Premium":

Audio
Burn
Copy your favorite CDs to use at home or when travelling
Select your favorite songs and create best-of CDs make individual selections, time and time again
Burn MP3 CDs for hours of music enjoyment

Create
Design your own music CD covers with numerous word processing and picture editing functions
Create and mix your own sound files with crossfades and volume settings
Create playlists for your parties with combinations of video files and sound files
Arrange your own DJ mixes with professional effects and multi-track option

Edit
Rip music CDs in all different formats
Split sound files, design crossfades and control pauses easily and conveniently
Copy your LPs and tapes to CD in just a few steps

Share
Share your favorite hits in completely new areas


Video
Burn
Copy DVDs so fast as never before
Record Home Videos on CD or DVD so user-friendly as never before
Burn videos from PC onto CD or DVD so easy as never before
Save a complete DVD on a CD and keep the 5.1 Surround Sound so space-saving as never before

Create
Produce animated menus, titles and closing credits - with a large variety of templates
Make even better home-made videos with background music and navigation effects with the possibility of changing them at any time

Edit
Record home-made videos on your digital camcorder and watch them on your PC
Edit DVD films completely individually, insert new contents and change subtitles and experience previews in real time

Share
Let your family share your videos via your UPnP network


Photo
Burn
Find the photos you want and burn them onto CD/DVD - it's very fast and very simple
Archive all your photos - the layout is clear and your files are absolutely secure

Create
Design slideshows with your favorite pictures - fully animated and with backing music.

Edit
Get more from your pictures - rotate in any direction, flip and edit using effects

Share
Put your photos on television - using UPnP with continuous update function


Data
Burn
Burn your data onto CD and DVD - quickly and conveniently
Create backups - easily and automatically
Archive your data - reliably and securely

Create
Design individual CD and DVD labels - professionally and creatively


TV
Create
Create slideshows with photos, videos and music unlimited combinations
Produce playlists with your favorite hits to fill an entire evening take a break from the inconvenience of CD changing

Share
Relive your memories with friends and relations in front of the TV
combine media and link hardware

Enjoy
Watch the television channel on your PC to suit your preferences
Do not miss a second of your favorite programme with time-shifting to suit your timetable
Enjoy your favorite songs to suit your requirements
Experience your pictures and videos with great links and special effects
to suit your own ideas


Applications included
Here are some key features of "Nero Home":
Quick & easy access to all your digital media files from the comfort of your living room using a remote control
Integrates TV time-shifting, DVD, video, photo and audio playback
Easy wizard setup and user interface
Support for all popular media formats
Powerful database for storing and organizing of media files into playlists
Advanced search options
Complete multiple tasks concurrently

Here are some key features of "Nero Scout":
Optimized to provide access to media files from all Nero applications
Browse media files from Windows Explorer

Here are some key features of "Nero StartSmart 3":
Simple-to-use interface
Easy connection to the Nero ProductCenter
Improved integration in Windows XP autoplay

Here are some key features of "Nero Burning ROM 7":
Advanced search options with Nero Scout
Redesigned to maximize ease-of-use, efficiency and speed LightScribe support
Support for DVD-R Dual Layer format and DVD+R Double Layer

Here are some key features of "Nero Express 7":
Redesigned to maximize ease-of-use, efficiency and speed
The integrated Nero Scout technology provides fast access to all media files including advanced keyword search options
LightScribe support
Support for DVD-R Dual Layer format and DVD+R Double Layer
Verification for Audio CD, Video CD and Super Video CD
Support for short lead-out recording
Intelligent compilation size status bar
Tree-view in data project

Here are some key features of "Nero WaveEditor 3":
Surround sound editing with up to 7.1 channels
Zoom out/in of the recording beyond any limits
Layout improvements: all channel view/channel sum view
Extended sample format conversion and rendering multi-channel audio recordings
Offline effect processing possible
HQ-Dithering to reduce the noise (noise reduction)
Edit history window showing all editing steps
Automatic track splitting export tracks to separate files

Here are some key features of "Nero SoundTrax 2":
Support for up to 7.1 channel surround sound editing and mixing
Real-time panning fields to adjust the sound output position (i.e. front/rear)
Option to produce subwoofer channel tracks automatically
Multi-channel optimized effects (for surround sound 5.1 and 7.1 with/without subwoofer)
Automatic record triggering for LP/tape with supporting wizards option
Switching from Nero WaveEditor 3 to Nero SoundTrax 2 and vice versa with one click
Drop CD track splits or CD indexes directly in the multi-track project
Includes wizard for easy vinyl-to-CD or tape-to-CD transfer
Add volume or pan curves to the audio tracks

Here are some key features of "Nero Vision 4":
HDV capturing support
Improved support for DVD camcorder media (8 cm)
Easily access all your media files with Nero Scout
Full support of Dolby Digital 5.1 audio
DVD+VR
Supports chapter menus
Splitting and merging of titles
Setting or removing write protection for single titles
Possibility to overwrite unprotected titles automatically if disc space is low
DVD-VR
Playback of slideshows
Adding or removing images from slideshows
Importing of slideshows to hard disk
Simulation/preview of the project

Here are some key features of "Nero Recode 2":
Copy your DVDs with the fastest DVD 9 to 5 copying software in the world
Convert DVDs and video data into Nero Digital (MPEG-4)
Convert from 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround into space-saving Nero Digital audio format
Remove unwanted audio tracks, subtitles or bonus material

Here are some key features of "Nero ShowTime 2":
Support for Nero Scout
Support for H.264/AVC playback
Playback media from Nero MediaHome with excellent sound and video quality

Here are some key features of "Nero MediaHome":
Fully certified UPnP AV Media Server 1.0
Decide on a per-media-type (i.e. MP3, MPEG-2, MPEG-4) basis what should be shared over the network
Parsing of media files for gathering metadata such as the song's artist, album, title, duration, bit rate, color depth, resolution etc.
Playback your media files on your TV or hi-fi system
Automatically update shared folder hierarchy if user copies, moves or deletes files (for example using the Windows Explorer)

Here are some key features of "Nero PhotoSnap":
Support for Nero Scout
Rotate and cut pictures
Numerous visual effects
Improve the resolution of your pictures.
Supports file format JPEG 2000

Here are some key features of "Nero CoverDesigner 2":
Support for Nero Scout
Choose from a variety of templates
Import covers from your scanner, digital camera or the Internet

Here are some key features of "Nero BackItUp 2":
Supports drag and drop for file backup
File backup from Windows Explorer
Supports a virus check
On-the-fly compression
FTP backup and restore
Shadow copy
Predefined file filters and file excluding list
Drive backups from an active partition can be copied onto the hard disk
Selectable recording speed according to recorder capabilities

Here are some key features of "Nero ImageDrive":
Supports up to two image drives simultaneously
Mount image after boot of PC
Seamless integration into Windows Explorer


Requirements:
Processor and memory:
For writing audio and data discs:
- 800Mhz Intel Pentium 3 processor or AMD Sempron 2200+ processors or equivalent
- 128MB RAM
For TV recordings, DVD and video authoring:
- 1.2Ghz Intel Pentium 3 processor or AMD Sempron 2600+ processors or equivalent
- 128MB RAM
For real-time capturing and burning:
- 1.6Ghz Intel Pentium 4 processor or AMD Sempron 2600+ processors or equivalent
- 128MB RAM

Hard disk space:
600 MB disk space for a typical installation of all the components
Up to 9 GB available hard disk space for DVD images and temporary DVD files

Nero ShowTime 2, Nero Home / NeroVision 4, Nero Recode 2, Nero PhotoSnap, Nero PhotoSnap Viewer require Microsoft DirectX 9.0a or later


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Limitations:
15-day trial