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Nero 8 Premium Recording Software from Ahead Software

Recording software has been around for a number of years now providing businesses and consumers with the opportunity to record files onto CD and more recently DVD.

Recording software can be usefully utilised in the business field for storing discrete pieces of data and is especially useful if it needs to be delivered to a different physical site to that of the source of the original files. Transferring product data onto cd or dvd for giving out to salesmen or directors for presentations is one typical usage as a large Powerpoint presentation could easily exceed the size of a floppy disc and saving the presentation to a hard disc may not be an option on the day.

Recording software does have a valid place in the business market as well as for home use, but we wouldn't particularly recommend or advise using recording software to burn CDs to store your business data as your main backup strategy. For business data backup we would recommend either an offsite data backup and / or a hardware backup solution.

Recording software such as Nero 8 can also be used as part of a small scale low cost marketing campaign by businesses to send out information to customers including images, audio and video clips.

We would recommend using Nero 8 Premium which is the latest feature packed release of the award winning software from Ahead Software as your chosen burning/ recording software and is competively priced at under £50 ex Vat for the full retail copy with a single user.

The Nero 8 suite is the latest incarnation of the Nero range and the retail version is not just recording / burning software, instead it bundles together a wide range of useful applications all in the one box.

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Nero 8 Premium has everything you need for a digital lifestyle. Audio, data, photo, video and TV it does it all.

Nero 8 Premium has an easy to use layout following the familiar Windows design with simple instructions for how to go about burning your chosen files and over the years the product has been refined and developed adding new features. Windows Vista compatible graphics now included.

Nero 8 Premium allows you to do all the usual things you would expect to be able to do, including recording from the hard disc to a CD, recording "on the fly"- direct from one drive to another and Track-at-Once / Disc-at-Once and Session-at-Once recording and the ability to create bootable discs and multiple session discs. Compress video data to save storage space and offers verification after recording for more media types.

Nero 8 gives you the ability for 1:1 DVD to DVD copy* and to remake a orginal DVD from one or more DVD's and it is the first software that allows you to burn Dual- Layer DVDs in DVD-R format. You can even watch the DVD whilst you burn it. The software also offers Dolby Digital stereo encoding, 5.1 playback and Nero Digital. * Does not copy DVDs with copy protection.

Nero 8 users can now enjoy more interactive features and games on BD ROM discs through enhanced compatibility features available in the suite’s latest update.

The Nero 8 Premium burning suite lets you burn CDs and DVDs in a wide range of data formats. With Nero Vision 5 there are a whole host of features including support for (import/editing) of DVD-VR on DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. Content import from DVD+VR, DVD-VR, DVD-Video, SVCD, VCD and improved capture quality support and SmartEncoding for Audio/Video as well as a Burn-at-once feature and NeroVision API which allows you to create DVD-Video, SVCD, VCD from inside your own applications. You can also use the software to create slide shows to show customers and suppliers using great transitions and effects.

SmartEncoding detects if your incoming AVC or AVCHD source content is compliant with the destination format. This lets you save time by skipping the recoding step for AVCHD content when the destination file is also AVCHD, thereby maintaining the highest quality.

Get all the advantages of working with Mini HD DVD-Video with Nero 8. Now you can author, write, and play back HD DVD-Video format content on regular DVD-R/RW media. The Mini HD DVD-Video format supports resolutions up to 1080p. MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 content as well as Dolby® Digital 5.1 audio tracks can also be added. The Blu-ray/HD DVD Plug-in is required for this feature.

With Nero 8 and the Blu-ray/HD DVD Video Plug-in, you can now author and play back High Definition content in Blu-ray Disc format. Brilliant 3D menu templates and advanced authoring features up to 1080i, combined with playback support for commercial Blu-ray Discs and those created with Nero 8, combine for the ultimate home entertainment experience.

With Nero 8, now you can encode content with video pre-processing options for colour correction and noise removal. The video pre-processing enables you to enhance and modify the content prior to encoding. Advanced features include adaptive de-interlacing and adaptive frame rate conversion for a truly professional output.

Nero BackItUp 2 saves data, either on command or as a regular task with the scheduler, allows you to create an FTP backup, or password protect your data and offers"on the fly" compression recording making the BackItUp function a handy tool to help prevent data loss.

Nero Wave Editor 4 offers a large range of effects you can add when editing and recording audio files and Nero SoundTrax 2 allows you to mix and edit music with a professional touch.

Nero 8 Premium also gives you the most comprehensive system to manage your media all inside one application with Nero Home. This allows you to organise your media into personalised, practical libraries so you can always find what you are looking for quickly and painlessly and so you can combine videos, images and music into professional shows.

If you use Nero 8 at home as well as at work did you know you can now stream content around your home on game consoles? Now you can play content beginning from a selected time in the video.

This means you can answer the phone, get another cup of coffee, or let the dog out for a walk without having to restart your movie!

With the SmartStart project launcher all you have to do is start it up and choose the mode that suits you best, expert or standard.

Finally, the advanced Nero Cover Designer 3 helps you to produce professional looking CD /DVD booklet and insert layouts for your recordings to brand your company's products and ensure that you know exactly what data, music, movie or pictures you have stored on your discs.

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