Nero 7 Ultra Edition

[Rob Williams]

Nero has released a new version of their Ultimate Edition and we are here to take a look at what's new and upgraded. There's so much packed into this bundle, but is it worth your hard earned cash?

Discuss the article here!

Originally Posted by Rob Williams

Nero has released a new version of their Ultimate Edition and we are here to take a look at what's new and upgraded. There's so much packed into this bundle, but is it worth your hard earned cash?

Discuss the article here!

7 has a bug in NeroVision. If you create a menu that has animated buttons, after burning (to disk or actual DVD), when you play it (on PC OR DVD player), clicking on the buttons does nothing. Turning off animation fixes it.

I had to do Ahead's work for them. First they told me that since it worked on my PC there was no bug. This despite my bug report being explicit that it happened on BOTH.

After I emailed them to correct their misconception, I didn't hear back from them. Until I personally narrowed it down to the button issue, and sent them two log files. Lo and behold, TWO weeks later, they emailed me and said the developers had reproduced it. Duh!

How about some thanks for me doing your debugging for you, eh, Ahead?

[Rob Williams]

That's quite interesting. So this bug still resides in the program then? I don't have a standalone DVD player to test that in, but only the Xbox so I doubt it would work anyway.

Glad they listened to you though.

[madmat]

You'd think things like this would get caught in beta testing...I tend to consider the first release a "Paid Public Beta" sometimes. Games are sometimes really bad about that since they can't realistically test every game with every possible hardware config.

[Rob Williams]

Maybe they didn't want to waste so much media

Yes, I'm kidding.

[Jakal]

I found that same bug burning a dvd. I didn't realize it was a program error as much as a player error. We had to stop and then hit play for the dvd to work correctly.

For some reason it is extremely hard to find any kind of definition of AVC on the internet. I have nero vision express and have been using it for awhile. The guy at best buy recommended it but It was about a year ago since then and I don't remember if I bought it. Maybe it was free, but Im pretty sure I purchased it. I am mad because now I am getting a message when I try to burn dvds saying "AVC encoding has expired, you will need to upgrade to nero 7 for this feature".......my question is do I even need this....whatever it is. I know its some kind of better quality but I have been burning movies since day one and I wonder if Nero has been using that feature all along. I mean, I wonder if I will notice a difference now. Coincidentally the only movies Ive tried burning so far while ignoring the message, will not play in my playstation 2. This might not even be related but right now I am waiting for 3 hours to try some other movies.

Maybe somebody can tell me in lamens terms what AVC actually does and if it is worth buying nero 7 for.

[Rob Williams]

AVC is Advanced Video Compression. It essentially will take twice as long to compress the video, but it will end up being smaller. I am unsure whether this is a Nero specific feature or not, but it should be included in without a seperate license.

It could be that AVC is designed for Nero Ultra or the like, and you had a more basic version with a trial. No, you don't need AVC... because you would have to select AVC specifically when re-encoding a DVD. I am assuming you have not since you didn't know what it was.

If Nero continues to function, then I wouldn't worry about things. 7 has been out for a little while now... maybe just buy Nero 8 whenever it arrives instead.

[thelt]

When I try to back up a DVD, It goes through the analysis and stops with a message that says "Failed to open the file VTS_01_3.VOB. The parameter is incorrect." Is this a copy protected DVD or is there something wrong with my Nero Version?

[Rob Williams]

Hmm. Normally if you have a copy-protected DVD, it will tell you before it will even do anything, but perhaps you have a DVD with strange copy-protection... it's really hard to say.

If you are doing a 1:1 backup, you might want to download DVD Fab Decrypter or some other DVD backup application that doesn't care about any copy-protection that's put in place. Once it's ripped to your hard drive, you could use Nero to make a video DVD, using that folder. I've had to do this a few times in the past.

You might also want to try copying the DVD to the hard drive with Nero as an image, if you are able to do so with the Windows version. You can with the Linux version, so I'm assuming it's the same.

If you don't get anywhere, let us know and we'll figure it out. I'm doubtful it's the application though, but it wouldn't hurt to re-install anyway just in case.

[Kougar]

What OS are you using? Nero 7 and Vista work about as well together as gasoline and a blowtorch.