Create & Edit

Video

Whether you’re recording soccer games, concerts, or family reunions, get professional results in an easy-to-use video creation and editing tool. Use the Movie Wizard template library and create entertaining movies for every occasion (birthdays, weddings, vacations). Watch seamless movies or music videos, without commercials or other scenes interrupting, by using Ad Spotter to automatically cut them out. Become the movie director you were meant to be!

Music

Dust off your old CDs and LPs and digitally archive them forever. Easily manage and play your favorite music titles with new music recognition service delivers accurate song and artist information, and album art (Powered by Gracenote®). Browse media for playback, create playlists of your favorite audio tracks, shuffle and categorize tracks for easy reference. Simply create MP3 archives of your favorite Music videos with Music Grabber.

Photo

Make all your digital photos come to life. Share the stories of your life’s most memorable moments with professional photo-editing tools to correct red-eyes, crop, rotate, adjust, and enhance photo quality. Create entertaining photo slideshows with special effects, transitions, and music; burn it on DVD with great 3D menus and share with family and friends.

Convert & Share

High-Definition

Make use of the latest AVCHD or HDV camcorders, edit your project in HD quality including Nero SmartEncoding for AVCHD and create an AVCHD disc on a regular DVD medium (red laser) or a BD-AV disc (blue laser).

Convert & enjoy multimedia files on iPod, PSP

Convert your music, videos, and photos to DVD, CD, or your portable devices and enjoy them on the go. Convert your old CDs, LPs, and tapes to MP3s and save them forever – Gracenote® MusicID® will give you the track information, titles, and great album art to complete your collection.

Internet

Upload your coolest photos and videos to share with My Nero and other online communities.*

* Sharing content on My Nero, YouTube™, MySpace™, and other online communities is subject to availability

Home Entertainment

Media Center

NEW amazing TV experience from the comfort of your sofa gives you state-of-the-art TV technology, even for HDTV and DVB Radio. Integrates into Windows Vista® Media Center and Windows® XP Media Center Edition.*

High-Definition Television

Record, manage, playback, and enjoy your favorite TV shows – even for HDTV. Watch High-Definition TV and use the P-i-P (“picture-in-picture”) mode for watching 2 channels at the same time.

Playback Media Management

ShowTimeDVD and multimedia player features latest digital audio and video file formats, a new playback design – with convenient playlist handling, shuffle playback, as well as docking and stand-by modes of both, the browser window and playlists. New display, with Gracenote® music services, shows clear and accurate track and artist information, as well as album art.

*Please note:
DVB-S/S2 currently works only on Windows Vista® and Windows XP® MCE 2005.

Rip & Burn

Best in the World!

Fast and easy ripping, burning and copying of CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs* directly through Nero StartSmart. With DVD-R Dual Layer and DVD+R Double Layer support, you’ll get more data on a disc than ever before!

DiscCopy Gadget

One-click disc copy with Nero DiscCopy Gadget - optimized for Windows Vista® .

Personalized Disc Labels

Personalize your discs with labels, covers, and booklets, and choose from multiple templates or customize with your own images.

*Please note:
Blu-ray capabilities are subject to change.

Backup

Protect and Archive Files and Data

Safely backup to archive, protect, and manage your multimedia library for generations to come. Don’t lose your valuable memories and important files to life’s potential hazards, or risky hardware – protectively archiving files and data is a point-and-click away.

Securely Manage Content

Customize automatic functions for easy and convenient Autobackup for offline or online* files storage. Schedule automatic backups to ensure consistency and recover and preserve files and data with Nero RescueAgent. Easily scan for most media types and files, with quick overview of damage and rescue status.

*Please note:
Online backup subscription needed for Autobackup.
 

System Requirements

General System Requirements Nero 9

• ­A DVD-ROM drive is required for installation
• ­Windows® XP SP2 or SP3, Windows Vista®, Windows Vista® with SP1, Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 SP2, Windows® Server 2003 SP 1
• Windows® XP and Windows Vista® 64 bit versions are supported in 32 bit emulation mode
• Nero InCD only supported in 32 bit Windows®
• Nero DiscCopy Gadget and NeroLive Gadget only work in 32 bit emulation mode in the Sidebar under Windows Vista® 64 bit. Please follow these steps to activate.

1. Right-click on the Sidebar icon on your taskbar and select Properties.
2. Uncheck Start Sidebar when Windows starts. Click Apply and then OK to close the window.
3. Right-click on the Sidebar icon again and select Close.
4. Locate and run the 32 bit version of Sidebar.exe located in Program Files (x86) in the folder Windows Sidebar.
5. Right-click on the Sidebar icon (32 bit version) on your taskbar and select Properties.
6. Make sure the option Start Sidebar when Windows starts is checked. Click Apply and then OK to close window.

• ­Windows® Internet Explorer® 6.0 or higher
• 1 GHz Intel® Pentium® III or equivalent AMD and Intel® processor (2 GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 or equivalent AMD and Intel® processor for Windows Vista®), 256 MB RAM (512 MB RAM for Windows Vista®)
• ­1.5 GB hard drive space for a typical installation of all components
• ­CD, DVD, or Blu-ray Disc recordable or rewritable drive for burning
• ­DirectX® 9.0c revision 30 (August 2006) or higher
• ­Up to 9 GB available hard drive space for DVD images and temporary DVD files
• ­Graphics card with at least 32 MB video memory and minimum resolution of 800 x 600 pixels and 16-bit color settings (24-bit or 32-bit true color is recommended)
• ­Installation of the latest WHQL certified device drivers is strongly recommended
• ­For the Nero Online services: Nero product registration, product updates, patent activation, Gracenote® services, Nero Online Backup, and other features (such as photo sharing) an Internet connection is required.
• Nero recommends a broadband connection (DSL-1000 and higher or Internet connection with equivalent performance) for all Nero online services such as Nero Online Backup and Nero Video Services. Internet connection charges are the user's responsibility

Optional Requirements

• ­16-bit Microsoft® Windows® compatible sound device and speakers (16 bit sound device required for Nero Wave Editor and Nero SoundTrax)
• ­Installation of latest WHQL certified device drivers recommended
• ­Blue laser reading/writing device for Blu-ray Disc support* (check special blue laser system requirements)
• ­Up to 50 GB free hard drive space for Blu-ray Disc BD-R/RE dual layer disc images
• ­SecurDisc compatible optical drive for SecurDisc features
• ­OHCI compliant FireWire controller (IEEE 1394) for DV or HDV capturing
• ­TV tuner or video capture card for analog and digital video recording