London, Dec 11 (PRINTWORDS NEWS) – 
When CD writers came into existence and people started using them randomly Ahead software’s Nero Burning Rom became increasingly popular. It was supplied with a lot of CD writers and offered plethora of features compared to rival products. With the advent of DVD writers Nero became feature- packed and from version 6 onwards Nero assumed the role of a full fledged media editor and manager rather than a media burning application. While the new features helped Nero in attracting more users it became slower and more resource consuming. The version 8 and 9 have been particularly resource hungry and they can bring slower systems on their knees. That explains why Nero decided to iron out the inherent flaws in version 9 and present the users a bug free and less resource consuming version.
The company has tweaked the software to an extent and you can feel that right from the time of installation. The installer size has also been reduced to 204 MB. While the previous versions of Nero needed almost an hour the Reloaded version finished the job within 12 minutes flat. However, it cannot beat rival Cyberlink and Roxio products that take even less time. In fact the revamped Roxio Creator 2010 needs only 10 minutes to complete installation. However, Nero lets you choose individual applications while installing, a feature Roxio does not have. The Nero 9 Reloaded omits Nero Live TV which earned notoriety for being buggy. Now Nero can import PowerPoint modules and offers full compatibility with Windows 7.
While Nero StartSmart interface offers the users more customization choices compared to Roxio, it looks more cluttered. Nero offers two applications for DVD and CD burning. The beginners usually prefer Nero Express which follows a wizard based and quick approach to data burning. The Nero burning Rom is for the veteran users. Roxio Creator gives better results in burning and Nero can sometimes report inaccurate time when burning data.
Nero’s proprietary Nerovision software meant for importing and editing video has got a facelift in this version but it is far from perfect. It still does not support video rotation. Free apps like Picasa and Windows Live movie Maker can do this smoothly. However, Nerovision has a rich list of features like transition, text overlay etc. People looking for more feature rich video editors can try Adobe Premier Elements. Blue Ray authoring comes at additional cost and requires a plug in.
Nero’s ShowTime software is meant for media and video playback. While it is good at playing back DVDs, more demanding users will prefer applications like WinDVD or Cyber link Power DVD that offer more multimedia features. In music editing department Nero 9 Reloaded offers three applications- WaveEditor, SoundTrax and ScratchBox. All three are feature rich and easy to use. Compared to Nero 9’s video and audio editing applications, PhotoSnap, its image editing and viewing tool, looks Spartan. A free software like Picasa or Irfanview offers more options than this one. The BackItUp & Burn, Nero’s data back up application is easy to use but can not match the performance of standalone data backup tools like Diskeeper. Overall, Nero 9 Reloaded improves over its predecessors to an extent but in media editing, it still needs to go a long way.
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