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11/28/2003 08:15:58 PM · #1 |
I finally bought a DVD burner and installed it tonight. I got up at 5:00 am and went to Best Buy, only to find about 800-1000 people in line already. Some spent the night to be at the front of the line. I was going for an off brand $89 DVD burner. I went to Office Max next door, without the crowds and craziness and got a Hewlett Packard DVD burner for $99 instead.
Anyway, I have been using Nero Burning Rom for CD's and it has always worked well. Before I purchase the Nero DVD burning software, I was wondering what everyone else is using???? Any recommendations, anything to stay away from? Any input would be appreciated!
Thanks,
JD Anderson
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11/28/2003 08:19:14 PM · #2 |
It Depends on what you are burning. Did your burner come with software b/c most times that it the best thing to use.
If you are burning home movies & such, a video editing software works well such as video explosion. I like that one myself.
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11/28/2003 08:24:05 PM · #3 |
I have Adobe Premiere for making movies. Does Premiere have the burning utility built into it? (I've made movies and then watched them on my computer, but never burned them to anything).
My main reason for purchasing the DVD burner is for Digital photo backups. I have 120GB filled up with original image files and Photoshop edit files. Rather than buy larger hard drives (again) I want to archive on DVD. Sooo.... my main purpose is to back up image files. It did come with burning software, but I want to have the best I can get. I don't want to find out later down the road that some of my DVD's won't read, or even a few images on a disk. I don't want to lose anything, so I'm willing to pay extra for a burning utility that comes highly recommended...
Thanks,
JD Anderson
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11/28/2003 08:27:10 PM · #4 |
If you want to author DVDs, as in create content and then put that content on the disc along with menus, chapter points, etc, for playback in a DVD player, then something like Adobe Encore would be your best bet - if you take it seriously anyway. I'm sure there are cheaper sollutions that aren't as powerful but will let you put out a basic DVD.
If you just want to back up data or make an mp3 DVD, then Nero would be fine. I use the Express version that came with my A06 and its fine.
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11/28/2003 08:42:06 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by smellyfish1002:
I got up at 5:00 am and went to Best Buy, only to find about 800-1000 people in line already. Some spent the night to be at the front of the line. I was going for an off brand $89 DVD burner. |
Heh, I did the same exact thing! I got to Best Buy at 4:45AM, and there was only about 30-40 people in front of me. The group at the front of the line had been there since 10:30PM the previous night (what a bunch of idiots...it was pouring rain all night/morning too). Nothing is worth that kind of wait!
I did manage to get the off brand (Lite On) DVD burner for $79.99 though, and it works great. Luckily, I also got the Toshiba 2.4GHz Celeron notebook for $500. I've been looking at used laptops on ebay, and a brand new laptop for only $500 (with 18months interest free financing), was a deal I couldn't pass up!
About your DVD software question...I'm using Nero 6 Ultra Edition. Works like a charm. It has the same exact interface as previous versions and works great. I've always used Nero and probably always will. They seem to have the best burning software by far. |
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11/28/2003 08:42:42 PM · #6 |
| Lol, I just pop a DVD in the computer and hit burn. When I open what's on the Disk, the computer launches the appropiate software. |
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11/28/2003 08:46:14 PM · #7 |
| thats what i do too, put in and hit burn |
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11/28/2003 09:16:15 PM · #8 |
Those "hit Burn" disks from a Mac can act funny on older machines.
I've usually used Roxio Toast on the Mac and EZ CD Creator on the PC, although my home PC now has Nero which came with a replacement drive.
Toast gives you MANY more options than just hitting "Burn," including making bootable disks. |
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11/28/2003 09:21:59 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Those "hit Burn" disks from a Mac can act funny on older machines.
I've usually used Roxio Toast on the Mac and EZ CD Creator on the PC, although my home PC now has Nero which came with a replacement drive.
Toast gives you MANY more options than just hitting "Burn," including making bootable disks. |
This is true, but i have bootable discs and only burn to 'fill' a disc, having no real need for sessions. |
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11/28/2003 09:24:43 PM · #10 |
| I don't bother with sessions anymore, because the media is so cheap and the format unreliable. I just like to have an actual user interface instead of just a menu item when I'm spending my own money on the consumables. |
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11/28/2003 09:34:47 PM · #11 |
My HP drive came with a utility called Record Now. I don't know if HP wrote the software or if it is 3rd party. I just burned my first DVD and it worked fine. I intend to upgrade to Nero 6 soon...
JD
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11/28/2003 10:54:38 PM · #12 |
| I use Nero all the time for both CD and DVD. Love and have no reason to change. |
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11/28/2003 10:59:02 PM · #13 |
Most dvd r disc can be read by dvd's especially dvd's out these day can accomadate even cd-r's. If you are archiving, I would stick with the software the burner came with. If you are unsatisfied & find that it does not work on you dvd (highly unlikely these days) you could alsway see them on your computer or, if you have the dollars, get one that is compatible with your player.
Nero is a good and so is roxio. Either, if you absolutely must buy, is good to go.
Good luck with whatever you decide.
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11/28/2003 11:00:17 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by smellyfish1002:
My HP drive came with a utility called Record Now. I don't know if HP wrote the software or if it is 3rd party. I just burned my first DVD and it worked fine. I intend to upgrade to Nero 6 soon...
JD |
If it is an HP than it was made for your hardware. I too have an HP DVD burner & it is ideal & faster with the software it came with.
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11/29/2003 03:10:28 AM · #15 |
| btw if you have nero, just go into that im in uk and we dont have dif issues for cd/dvd it will just let you choose dvd disks |
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11/29/2003 10:26:23 AM · #16 |
Originally posted by smellyfish1002:
Anyway, I have been using Nero Burning Rom for CD's and it has always worked well. Before I purchase the Nero DVD burning software, I was wondering what everyone else is using???? Any recommendations, anything to stay away from? Any input would be appreciated!
Thanks,
JD Anderson |
I used to use EZ CD Creator. While it has a better , cleaner and more professional interface than Nero, it's not as good at writing discs (though improved lately), and it's a horrific piece of software from an installation point of view. I've spent a full day or more reinstalling the OS, and fixing the OS, from EZ CD upgrades. Every time I upgraded it was a nightmare. I stopped, about 18 months ago, and purchased Nero, and while I've gotten EZ CD Creator with a lot of my systems, I never use it. And I never uninstall it either, because it can destroy your registry settings key to your drives and force you to find a fix or do an OS reinstall. That can be a real nightmare, especially when the settings it destroys make it impossible to access your CD drives. I am not alone in this opinion, and there are many, many threads complaining about it.
On the other hand, I am never afraid to do a Nero upgrade, it has never misbehaved, and I can't even remember an upgrade needing a reboot. The software works as advertised, the interface has improved over the last two versions, and more features are present (though oddly, there's still no MP3 transcoder, you have to use MP4 or pay extra).
I have a DVD+R, a DVD-RAM/R, and many different CD-R drives, and it has always worked flawlessly with all of them.
The audio editing/recording software that comes with it is first rate, with the only issue being not being able to save as MP3s. The audio software is actually CoolEdit (CoolEdit96, Cool2000) which I had been evaluating and was ready to buy separately, so buying Nero saved me some money. (This software can be used to edit wave files you record, whether they be voice or your old records.) By the way, I had been using Creative's editor, which wasn't bad, but was very very very slow in comparison to CoolEdit96 and its later incarnations.
I think you get the idea. I would never again trust EZ CD Creator, and especially Roxio (just search the net for the threads), and while Nero isn't perfect, it's a very good, workable program that is well behaved, and updated monthly with fixes and new features, all at no cost and with little installation trouble.
Neil
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