CD-RW.ORG posted an artcile on what's new in NERO 5.5. I must say this is a very impressing list!
Nero Wave Editor |
Say goodbye to complex external editing applications'”the new built-in ultrafast Wave Editor makes Nero your all-in-one editing/burning solution! Look at these features:
- Non-destructive editing lets you try many options and undo all changes.
- A range of audio-processing options gives you complete control over your audio files before you record them to disc.
- Real-time "audition" lets you select and hear effects in real time, as your soundfile plays.
- Preset Manager lets you save your frequently-used settings.
- Sample format conversion, anti-aliasing filters, dithering, noise shaping... and much more!
Advanced Nero Cover Designer
Design your own CD graphics quickly and easily with Nero's updated Cover Designer. The Designer helps you produce impressive, professional-looking layouts for your CD booklets and inserts. The Cover Designer includes:
- Assorted graphic effects
- Customizable design templates
- Multi / Maxi album support
- Predefined paper stocks
- Starter label pack (in Retail Package version)
- Nero MPEG1 Video Encoder
- The DVD format has revolutionized home video. Recordable DVD is still in the future, but the Video CD and Super Video CD formats are available now to home movie-makers. For some time, Nero has allowed you to make VCD and SVCD discs from MPEG files'”but Nero 5.5 goes much further.
Until now, Video CD creation was a time-consuming process requiring multiple applications. With Nero's new high-quality MPEG 1 encoder, simply drag your AVI video files into your CD layout, and Nero converts them to MPEG! Your disc is then ready to be burned as a Video CD, playable on your PC or in compatible DVD players.
Aspiring directors can also use Nero's new VCD/SVCD menu-creator for basic video authoring (see below).
VCD / SVCD Menu Creation
Now you can add onscreen menus to your Video and Super Video CDs. These menus are like "cover pages" for your discs, making it easy to select tracks for playback. Your menus can even include...
- music'”viewers can "groove" while they select their "grooves"
- "thumbnail" previews'”small, clickable still-images from your tracks
Audio Plug-In Interface
New audio formats appear all the time---and Nero helps you keep up with them. Nero 5.5's Audio Plug-in Interface makes it easy to create your own custom-written support files (DLLs) for the new formats of your choice. Programming knowledge and extra third party tools required.
Embedded Nero API (Application Program Interface)
Well the famous Nero API (Application Programming Interface), takes on a new meaning when Nero 5.5 is installed on a computer. If you're a programmer or software developer, you can now use Nero 5.5's Embedded API to add our powerful CD-writing functions to your own applications. All this without even opening Nero! Of course for the ultimate in control, Nero 5.5 is never far away.
Nero Toolkit
Including:
Nero CD Speed
Nero CD Speed is a CD-ROM benchmark which can test the most important features of a CD-ROM drive:
- transfer rate,
- seek times,
- CPU usage,
- burst rate,
- DAE quality,
- transfer rate,
- spinup/spindown time.
- Furthermore, Nero CD Speed has a function to check the exact write speed of CD-Recorders from the first to the last sector of a CD-R/RW.
Nero Drive Speed
Nero Drive Speed is a utility to change the read speed of CD-ROM drives and recorders. High speed drives can be very noisy when running at full speed. This can be irritating when playing multimedia files such as MP3 or video files. Reducing the speed not only reduces the noise but also decreases the spinup and spindown times. This can greatly improve playability of games who need to access the CD-ROM drive.
And much more...
- True multitasking recording engine simultaneously records up to 32 CD-R/RW drives **
- Record verification option ensures crucial data precision
- Virus Checker * scans the files of the compilation before burning to CD (only in retailversion included)
- Advanced Nero Imagedrive * enables users to view or run the contents of an image file through Microsoft Explorer prior to burning (only in retailversion included)
- CD Extra format pre-mastering support
- Win NT4/2000 security select which users are allowed to burn under Win NT4/2000 '“ no administrator rights required anymore
* only available in the Nero Retail Package
** special edition of Nero 5.5
Did I say too much? Impressive eh?
Source: CD-RW.ORG
