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Nero 8 Ultra Edition [OLD VERSION] From:Nero Inc.
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2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful: I rolled back to Nero 7 for use with D-Link DSM-320, 2008-07-25 I only use Nero for the purpose of converting media to play on my devices, specifically the D-Link DSM-320 and D-Link DSM-520. When I first purchased the DSM-320, it was listed as a "Nero Certified" device, and even today, D-Link tells customers to use Nero Recode (Part of the full Nero Package) to convert video to play on their players. I've had way to many issues with Nero Recode after upgrading to Nero 8. First of all, although the output files it produces can play on the D-Link players, you can not FF or RW (or seek to a specific time) in these videos. Doing so on the DSM-320 (and I have 2 of them, so it's not the unit) causes the player to hang, essentially. Oddly enough the new Nero-8 encoded files play correctly on the DSM-520. I'm using exactly the same settings as I did in Nero 7 (Nero Recode 2), and even that took some time poking around to find how to set it up the same way. The bottom line is if you have one of these D-Link Media Players and are encoding content with Nero 7, I would strongly recommend not upgrading to Nero 8. It's been nothing but a headache for me. I rolled back to 7 and of course everything was fine. (Rolled back meaning uninstall Nero 8 and re-install Nero 7.) FYI, I've also poked around in the blogosphere a bit and found that other users of the DSM-320 and Nero 8 have had exactly the same problem. It's too bad, because Nero Recode 3 (Nero 8) has some nice new features for tweaking the video, but since the resulting files do not play correctly on my players, there's no point. Support from Nero. as others have mentioned, is all but non-existent. Interestingly enough, the D-Link players are no longer listed as "Nero Certified Devices." Go figure. Wait for Nero 9. 2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful: high quality photos cannot be rendered in slideshow, 2008-07-21 If you shoot stills with a quality high resolution camera, Nero8 cannot do anything with them but a big blurr! Do I want to resize all my photos? forget it. I just wasted my money. Joyce 3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful: A Good Product, but hardly worth the upgrade price, 2008-07-02 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. 4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful: Nero 8 Ultra good features but very slow to load, 2008-06-20 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. Great software but only load what you need, 2008-06-19 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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