
Otherwise, the suites’ strengths and weaknesses remain the same: Both are as powerful as any you can find, but neither is quite as easy to use as it could be. Vision is capable and easy to use, but it looks a tad amateurish.Īll of the upgrades to Multimedia Suite 10 Platinum HD and Video Premium HD are welcome, and they include quite a few minor usability tweaks that I haven’t mentioned. My fondest hope is that Nero will apply its new-style MediaHub interface to Nero Vision in the near future. MediaHub now recognizes and imports from both Windows Media Player and iTunes libraries. Among the enhancements are Nvidia CUDA support, bypassing the encoding of video material that already matches the output format, and multicore CPU support. Nero Video Premium HD includes a nicely improved version of the Nero Vision Xtra video editing and authoring program, the Nero Media Hub player/media organizer/image editor/slideshow creator, and the aforementioned Creative Collection Pack 1.Ī host of small changes have improved the video modules, which are identical in both new versions of the suite.

Another treat: You can export–not just–read. If you have an oddball mobile device that Move It doesn’t recognize, this feature is very handy. One neat trick that Move It has up its sleeve is the ability to create transcoding profiles based on the media it finds on your device. Blu-ray playback and creation worked fine, and the Move It plug-in performed as advertised, though Move It would still benefit from some interface revisions. Thereafter, however, my hands-on with Nero MSP HD was rewarding. The serial number on the disc sleeve was incorrect for the product, and I had use a sharp object to slice open the seal for the disc sleeve in order to avoid rendering the serial number illegible. I did run into a couple of glitches with the installation process. Nero supplements Platinum HD with 5GB of online backup storage, as well as with the company’s Creative Collection Pack 1, containing a host of new content–such as picture-in-picture layouts, transitions, and themes–for creating professional-looking DVD movie discs consisting of its and the like. Previously this capability was available only as a stand-alone product. The $130 high-end version of the suite also offers the Move It plug-in, which automatically converts and sends media back and forth between your PC and mobile devices such as iPods and Android phones. The new $70 Video Premiumits HD is a subset consisting of the video-oriented components, plus support for creating and playing back Blu-ray movies. The Multimedia Suite 10 Platinum HD ($130 as of October 28, 2010) adds Blu-ray movie creation and playback to a broad feature set that already comprised audio and video editing and conversion, data disc creation, DVD authoring, and more.

A href=”” target=”_blank”>Nero recently refreshed its Multimedia Suite 10, which it had extensively revised only last spring.
