Nero 7 Ultra Edition [OLD VERSION]

by Nero Inc.

Product Features

• Software provides ultimate audio, video, photo, data, and TV solution
• Capture, create, edit, author, burn, backup, and share digital media
• Powerful database for storing and organizing of media files into Playlists
• Support for all popular media formats; advanced search options
• Complete home entertainment experience; easy wizard setup and user interface

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000BCGFCO
• Item model number: 70005
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 9, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (130 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,172 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #5 in Software > Video & Music > MP3 Software
  • #11 in Software > Business & Office > Communication > E-mail
  • #14 in Software > Video & Music > CD Burning & Labeling > Mastering & Burning
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Nero 7 Ultra Edition is a suite of advanced digital media applications with features that will help you meet all of your digital media needs. Whether you want to capture, create, edit, author, burn, backup or share your digital media files, Nero 7 Ultra can help you do it all.

Nero Home provides fast access to the your entire digital media library from your PC or TV. View larger.

Manage and edit all of your digital photos with Nero PhotoSnap. View larger.

Nero Vision 4 offers video capturing, editing, authoring and burning capabilites. View larger.

Comprehensive, scheduled backups are possible with Nero BackItUp 2. View larger.

Whether you're a beginner or an expert at managing your digital media, you'll be amazed at what Nero 7 Ultra can accomplish. This powerful suite lets you easily transform your digital photos into professional animated slideshows, backup all of your valuable data without even logging into your computer, manage and search your media files, edit video or photos, create DVDs with menus, stream your files over a media server, and compress files to take on the go.

Hollywood and Nashville, Here I Come
For starters, Nero 7 Ultra can help you build your own virtual movie and recording studio. If you've ever wanted to turn your old home videos into Hollywood quality movies, now's the time. Nero 7 Ultra lets you compose beats, edit videos with transitions and menus, compress to various profiles (mobile, portable, standard, cinema and HDTV), burn a CD/DVD, design CD labels, and much more.

With Nero Vision 4, part of Nero 7 Ultra's suite of applications, video capturing, authoring and burning software will be at your fingertips. The user-friendly interface makes it easy to capture your videos from DV cameras and other external video devices and record them to DVD-Video, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD) and mini DVD. With the many features offered in this powerful piece of multimedia software, you will have numerous options for creating and managing your memories. Even those who are new to the world of video will find using Nero Vision 4 to be easy and enjoyable. You can compress video to fit mobile, PDAs, home theater and HDTV standards. Enhanced 2D and animated 3D menu templates let you spice up your home-made professional quality DVDs, and when you're done with your video project, you can burn to DVD, SVCD and VCD, or export to video file for sharing. With Nero Media Home, you can even stream your media files across any Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) compatible device.

For audio projects, the included Nero WaveEditor 3 provides you with the advanced audio editing and recording tools to produce high quality audio creations with up to 7.1 channels. The software offers support for 5.1 and 7.1 audio recording, editing and mixing, as well as support for HQ mastering (192 KHz) resolution. Nero SoundTrax 2 is a professional program with the ability to mix and edit for the production of audio CDs and CD compilations. With it you can create beats, melodies and sound sequences, adjust tempo of samples and loops to mixes for seamless track transitions, while adding new surround effects. You can also pump-up your music mixes with the powerful Beat Editor, Sequencer and Text II Speech converter features.

If digital stills are your expertise, Nero 7 Ultra will quickly become your best friend. In addition to helping you store, manage and edit all of your digital photos with ease, you can turn your photos and videos into slideshows, add transitions and music, burn them to DVD, and then give them to friends and family to watch on their DVD players or PCs.

And with the Nero Home Media Manager, you can even choose between experiencing your media files on your PC or TV. Whether you want to access your media files from the comfort of your living room, or complete digital media projects on your PC, it's entirely up to you. Nero Home is an innovative media manager that provides fast access to the your entire digital media library via remote control. From the comfort of your own living room, your entire collection of digital media can be viewed on a plasma, LCD or conventional TV. The software features a simplified interface and a TV wizard to walk you through a simple setup.

A Complete Back-up Solution
Backing up your valuable data has never been this easy and this thorough. With Nero 7 Ultra, you can back up your entire system on several CDs/DVDs, schedule an automatic backup, drag and drop the files you want to save, create an FTP backup, or password protect your data. Which ever method you choose, Nero 7 makes sure that your important files stay right where you need them. An advanced calendar and scheduling for backup jobs means that you don't have to be present to protect your data. You can also secure your data with 128-bit encryption and password protection.

Also included in Nero 7 Ultra is Nero Burning ROM 7, the most widely used optical burning software in the industry. Carefully redesigned to maximize ease-of-use, efficiency and speed, Nero Burning ROM 7 will let you turn your projects into lasting CD and DVDs with extreme ease.

Other applications included with Nero 7 Ultra include Nero Recode 2, featuring Nero Digital, the world's fastest MPEG-4 encoder that enables you to recode non-copy protected movies to a CD-R/RW, DVD+/-R or a single DVD+R DL disc in DVD-Video format; Nero ShowTime 2 that lets you play all of your digital media (e.g. movies, TV programs, home videos, DVD-videos, etc.) with excellent picture and sound quality; and Nero PhotoSnap, which lets you edit your favorite photographs.

Product Description

Nero 7 Ultra Edition – The Ultimate Audio, Video, Photo, Data and TV Solution meets all of your digital media needs as you capture, create, edit, author, burn, backup and share, while providing the complete home entertainment experience. Create entertaining slideshows of your photos and videos, edit your home videos with animated 3D menu templates for professional quality DVDs, burn a backup of your favorite DVDs*, convert your audio & video files into state-of-the-art MPEG-4 (Nero Digital™) format and share your special memories on your consumer electronic devices, or burn on CD/DVD and watch on your TV. Manage your media files with a click of your remote control with Nero Home media manager. Includes 18 applications in ONE powerful suite with a user-friendly interface for an easy experience. Nero 7 Ultra Edition is truly the only partner you need to manage your digital life.

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Customer Reviews

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142 of 150 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Two words - Bloat and Bugs, January 11, 2006

By 

Carol Haynes (North Yorkshire UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nero 7 Ultra Edition [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Windows XP SP2 and Nero 6.6 working fine.

Installed Nero 7 (lastest patched verion from the website) and what a pile of pants!

Windows Explorer now takes 10-15 seconds to open a folder display (documented many times on the web) as a result of the non documented "Nero Scout" 'utility', an indexing program for your media files. Why anyone would want to use this and the abysmal Nero Home I have no idea. Nero Home claims to allow you to use TV cards but it doesn't work with ATI Radeon AIW cards (at least not mine) and simply crashes. Nero Home has to be the very worst media player interface anyone has designed in years. It takes over the full screen making use of other programs impossible, and is difficult to exit unless you are clairvoyant (I am and found pointing at the top right corner of the screen pops up an exit X).

There is no legitimate way to remove Nero Scout from your system. It is supposed to be a support app for Nero Home, but even when you don't install Nero Home it still gets installed. Disabling Scout doesn't fix the Explorer problems.

If you want to get rid of it (and you will) you can do it by deregistering the DLL file responsible using START/RUN and the following command regsvr32 -u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\Lib\MediaLibraryNSE.dll" (note all on one line and the " marks are important).

I can no longer load stuff in Nero Vision, it crashes everytime and has to be killed via the task manager.

Unless you are careful with your downloads you end up with Yahoo Toolbar installed too (why ??? ... they describe it as value added - I won't say how I describe it).

If you are not careful during installation it hogs all you file formats for every multimedia type.

The only part of the package I have not had particular problems with is Burning ROM which just about earns it the one star. Apart from cosmetics and the addition of new formats (BluRay etc. which no one can even test yet - let alone use) it looks pretty much identical to version 6.6 (except that it crashes occasionally which didn't happen before) and it no longer remembers what you were doning last time, so if you use a particular disc format regularly you now have to manually select it for every project - and annoyingly on DVD drives it defaults to CD formats.

Quite why a company such as Ahead feels the need to produce an application suite which is so sprawling, and all encompassing (but does few of these things intuitively or well) is a mystery to me. Their strength was the best and most consistent burning engine on the market and the sooner they get back to the core of the package the better. Burning disks is why people buy Nero. If they must bloat out the package to 100Mb+ then they could at least offer a smaller package consisting of just a quality burning application.

All in all I think Ahead have shot themsleves squarely in the foot with this release. It is obvious that there was a timetable agenda at play and the product was released before proper testing.

If you enjoy beta testing software for free (and not even getting the satisfaction that the company take bugs seriously) then you may want to buy this.

If you want to buy hassle free software then it is time to look elsewhere.

I have been a very happy user of Nero for many years (having had equally bad experiences with CDCreator from ROXIO and its previous incarnation) but this is the last time I will be paying for an upgrade for Nero, and if I find another burning application that does what I want it is time for me to move on.

What a pity ...

207 of 234 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Bug For Every Feature, November 9, 2005

By 

Paula (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nero 7 Ultra Edition [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I used Easy CD Creator for a few years, but it had a few bugs so I decided to try Nero when I bought a new computer. This is the most bug-infested software I've ever purchased. In my experience CD and DVD creating software seems to be poorly tested upon release due to the rush to offer new features, but this is unbelievably poor. No reputable company would sell software in this unfinished state, not even Microsoft. There's supposed to be a 100MB update available to download from Nero's website. It's not there (just a "Page not found" error). I haven't gotten an answer yet as to why and I don't think I want to pay $1.29/minute for a Nero employee to explain to me on the phone why they suck so bad.

Another annoyance, though not a bug, is that the advertising on the box says Nero 7 is able to rip audio CDs, but according to the manual (inside the box), the encoders are time-limited and you have to pay extra to keep them.

Due to the extremely poorly written program, lack of technical assistance, and misleading advertising I would not recommend Nero 7. I wish I knew what to recommend instead, but CD/DVD making software just seems to be prone to major problems.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Stay away from Nero 7; get Nero 6, January 28, 2006

By 

A Teacher (Kansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nero 7 Ultra Edition [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Stay away from Nero 7. You will save yourself a great deal of time, and many CDs and DVDs.

Find excellent and alternative software: Nero 6!

That's what I had to do, to revert back to Nero 6 which is an excellent software. But that
was after a great deal of frustration, a waste of $80, a waste of valuable time, a waste of
many CDs and DVDs, and having to deal with the poorest, slowest technical "support."

I believe Ahead Nero took advantages of the popular support and good reviews of its earlier
version of Nero, and marketed a product that was poorly tested and included many obvious defects.

If you would like a CD/DVD authoring system, I'd strongly recommend Nero 6 (not even the
competing products, like Roxio), but NEVER EVER Nero 7.

Nero 7's interface is essentially the same as Nero 6. The functionalities/utilities are also
essentially the same. But Nero 7 has many bugs, too many to be listed here. The very basic
(and most commonly needed) functions, e.g., CD copying fails repeatedly, with no good
explanation. The software as a whole is very inefficient (CPU wise) and takes over the CPU
immediately after it is launched.

The so-call Nero Scout is silly, useless, and annoying. You have to go thru a special
procedure to remove it. Ordinary users would have a difficult time getting rid of it
and thus would have to live with an unwanted, slow, worthless tool.

The cheapest and poorest part is the customer service.

In Nero 7's box, you will find a card that includes a code and contact info. It says if
you register your software, you will get special VIP treatment within the next 14 days.
I registered. Sent my first technical support request. Received a generic, canned reply
in 48 hours. But the response was from the regular tech support email address. I replied
back inquiring more technical details, but it took two (2) weeks before I received my
VIP response, again, a very generic response.

I believe this was a cheap shot by Nero to get an immediate survey of how many have
have purchased its new bug-ridden software.

There have a couple updates by Nero. But most technical problems remain. Furthermore, once
you apply the update patches, your software designation changes to a "demo" version. In other
words, the update is simply a 402MB demo version of the software that recognizes your
serial number but does not bother to remove the "demo" designation.

Once again, I will happily recommend Nero 6 but stay away from Nero 7.