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Nero Multimedia Suite is a popular software suite

Software suite

A software suite or application suite is a collection of computer programs, usually application software and programming software of related functionality, often sharing a more-or-less common user interface and some ability to smoothly exchange data with each other.Sometimes software makers...

for Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

by Nero AG

Nero AG

Nero is a global computer software company headquartered in Karlsbad, Germany. It is perhaps most well-known for its burning software, Nero Burning ROM.-History:The company was founded as Ahead Software GmbH in 1995 by Richard Lesser....

(formerly Ahead Software). Version 10 of this product was released in April 2010.

Included products

The following applications are included in Nero 11 :
Disc authoring

Nero Burning ROM
Nero Burning ROM
Nero Multimedia Suite is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows by Nero AG . Version 10 of this product was released in April 2010.- Included products :The following applications are included in Nero 11 :Disc authoring...

: a well-known optical disc authoring program by Nero AG and one of its first products.
Nero Express: a simplified incarnation of Nero Burning ROM targeted at beginners.
Nero CoverDesigner: enables users to design and print disc covers.
Nero BurnRights: enables administrators to assign required drive access rights to other users.
Nero DiscSpeed: a disc speed measurement and performance diagnostics tool.
Nero Info Tool: helps extracting useful system information related to disc authoring.
Nero DiscCopy Gadget: a gadget that allows users to perform simple disc burning operations (only for Windows Vista
Windows Vista
Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...

, Windows 7 or later).
Nero RescueAgent: helps recovering files from damaged or partially unreadable media and restoring files that were accidentally deleted.

Video authoring

Nero Vision: video editing software
Video editing software
Video editing software, is application software which handles the post-production video editing of digital video sequences on a computer non-linear editing systems...

tool capable of mixing video clips and authoring DVDs
DVD authoring
DVD authoring is the process of creating a DVD video capable of playing on a DVD player. DVD authoring software must conform to the specifications set by the DVD Forum group in 1995...

. The DVDs produced with the software are compatible with a large number of DVD Players.
Nero Recode: converts video files and non-copyrighted video DVDs into Nero Digital
Nero Digital
Nero Digital is a brand name applied to a suite of MPEG-4-compatible video and audio compression codecs developed by Nero AG of Germany and Ateme of France...

format, dramatically reducing their size while maintaining the quality. Also allows recoding of non-copyrighted video DVDs to fit onto a smaller DVD format.

Data backup

Nero BackItUp: a system backup
Backup
In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup....

utility. It was integral part of Nero 6, 7 and 8 suites. With the introduction of Nero 9 Nero BackItUp 4 became a standalone backup product, while its successor, Nero BackItUp 5, was the main application of Nero BackItUp & Burn This product was later on re-integrated in Nero Multimedia Suite 10.

Audio editing

Nero Wave Editor: audio editing tool capable of recording, trimming, filtering, mixing and exporting audio.
Nero SoundTrax: multi-track
Multitrack recording
Multitrack recording is a method of sound recording that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources to create a cohesive whole...

audio mixing
Audio mixing (recorded music)
In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...

tool capable of creating and exporting audio mixes.

Removed tools

Nero ImageDrive: a virtual drive
Virtual drive
A virtual drive in computing is a device that to the operating system appears to be an ordinary physical disk drive, with disc images substituted for disc reading hardware through the use of software called a disk emulator...

utility that allows mounting various disk image files
Disk image
A disk image is a single file or storage device containing the complete contents and structure representing a data storage medium or device, such as a hard drive, tape drive, floppy disk, CD/DVD/BD, or USB flash drive, although an image of an optical disc may be referred to as an optical disc image...

, thus presenting them as physical media to other applications. This tool is no longer included in Nero 9.

Naming conventions

The suite's name "Nero" is followed by its major version number and a catchphrase. The latter might vary by region (e.g. "Nero 7 Ultra Edition Enhanced" in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, "Nero 7 Premium Reloaded" in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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and Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

), although the name of core program remains Nero Burning ROM

Nero Burning ROM

Nero Multimedia Suite is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows by Nero AG . Version 10 of this product was released in April 2010.- Included products :The following applications are included in Nero 11 :Disc authoring...

.

The most commonly available versions of Nero are the OEM suites, which are bundled with many optical disc recorder

Optical disc recorder

In computing, an optical disc drive is a disk drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves near the light spectrum as part of the process of reading or writing data to or from optical discs. Some drives can only read from discs, but recent drives are commonly both readers and recorders,...

s. Some of these suites include only the simplified Nero Express, leaving out Nero Burning ROM.

Included products

Naming conventions

See also