Hybrid_From_Hell Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 Have just upgraded my PC to DVD and DVD RW units, problem is I am now on the hunt for some software ? Nero 7 8 or something good ? Can anyone help with some ? Nige Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bull Bar Cowboy Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 Nige, Give me a call on the phone Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Henson Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 I got Nero Startmart in my PC, works fine for rip/burn/copy DVD's and CD's Les. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest diesel_jim Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 If you want a really simple DVD burner, use DVDSanta (yeah, with a little santa clause), it doesn't do title selection etc, but converts .avi etc straight into DVD quickly. (ps... it does allow 5 minute "skip forwards" and is great for making photo montages too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 Nige, I got NeroVisionExpress with mine, works pretty well even if it does take a while to convert avi's to DVD. I've done a few where you can't tell the difference from a "real" DVD. Might be able to lend you a copy to, err, try before you buy ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuko Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 Nige, What do you plan to do? Burn DVD image files? Burn files/info/music/mp3's to the DVD's ? For burning ISO/images files to DVD, you can't go wrong with DVD Decrypter, excellent little program and it's FREE. Discjuggler is a professional burning program, it's the cat's meow for burning anything/everything to CD's and DVD's. Nero 7 is buggy, so I would suggest if you go the Nero route, stick with Nero 6.x.x.x. , much more reliable program. Todd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid_From_Hell Posted December 11, 2005 Author Share Posted December 11, 2005 Ok 1. Make DVDs ffrom Camcorder stuff etc downloaded to PC, have puinnacle for this, which is good, but it doesn't copy to CD DVD it just "makes" Video (avi) so DVD Santa has been tried and is simple and quick. 2. Use the DVD for backing up files, and for this I have nothing at all at the mo !, as the CD came without any softwate, but it was cheap ! 3. Music and sorts, poss not much, may copy some stuff to a DVD but its the 2 above that are key..... Nige Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuko Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 "Use the DVD for backing up files" Nige, For that, you should use Nero, create a multi session DVD, then your able to add as much as you like and as often as you like, without having to erase/rewrite. Todd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddyplugger Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 For Backing-up your DVD collection, the best and free software is DVD Shrink 3.2. Nero 6 is less buggy than 7 as said, and Nero is the Gold Standard for all your needs. For home movies, Cyber Link Power Director is excellent, as I gather is Pinnacle Studio 8. Mind you if your'e running SP2 then I hear that Microsoft's own Movie Maker 2.0 is also very good (and free!!) Anth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niall_CSK Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 MS Movie Maker is OK but will not do other formats than WMV or MS AVI (there are umpteen flavours) if you want to do a CD/VCD Agree Nero is the best all round, MP3 encoding is extra though, also agree 6 does everything more stable than 7 but just not as unified front end as 7, some of the terms can be a bit confusing. You might be able to find somone selling "old" stock at a very reasonable price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_T Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 I am using Roxio 8. Its the puppies privates for what you want to do.....only one snag....its not free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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