Burning out: Burned out

The ultimate fuel package for everyone is not. If you want to create your own DVDs with animated menus and have full control over the playback order, Win-OnCD 6 DVD Edition does not come around. The built-in Declicker and Denoiser modules work better than the competitors, delivering an acceptable, if not perfect, result. Innovative ideas such as the MP3 album, which creates an audio menu to the audio files on the PC, round off the package. However, a DVD copy module is missing. Nero 6 presents itself as an all-round carefree package, but loses first and foremost the current bugs of the video editing and DVD authoring module Vision Express 2: For own material the encoder is too bad, with externally encoded material there Still too many problems. Also the DVD copying tool Recode can not yet be seen as a killer application. The audio restoration effects are worse than those of WinOnCD, but Nero thanks to the multi-track audio editor SoundTrax and the extensive sound format support – and would have been without the error test winner. InstantCD / DVD 7 disappointed by the limited DVD authoring possibilities and the qualitatively inferior audio effects, but it is the first choice when it comes to copying video DVDs and burning data CDs and DVDs. The Easy CD & DVD Creator Platinum 6 from Roxio is aimed at beginners, but even for “professionals” sometimes confused in the operation. The DVD Builder is better than the authoring modules of Ahead, Pinnacle and BHA. Another prominent feature is the Photosuite Lite for image processing, even if this is more aimed at users with lower requirements. If there was an innovation prize, B’s recorder would surely have earned it. In the evaluation, the software forms the backlight because it has too little to offer in the multimedia area. However, anyone who burns data CDs in the first place will get great features for money. And on the manufacturer’s website, Version 7 is announced with improved DVD authoring capabilities for October this year.