Nero 12 12.0.03400

Nero 12 Editor's Review

Burn, edit, backup, rip, convert and play your media with this industry leading Windows toolbox.

Over the past few years, the biggest influx of consumer data has been in the area of multimedia. More than anything else, the increase in popularity of smartphones, tablets, digital cameras etc. have created a huge increase in the use and demand for multimedia – pictures, music, and video. This is one of the biggest reasons why I like Nero 12. Its one of the best optical media utilities available for Windows today.

With Nero 12, you can burn, edit, backup, rip, convert & play all of your multimedia. It's one of the most-complete multimedia suites ever. You can use it to format your media for use with all of your computing devices.

Nero 12 allows you to stream your movies, photo slideshows and music playlists throughout your home network. Nero uses the latest high-quality video formats to convert, edit and burn your data. The app supports streaming to your XBOX 360™, PS3™, Android tablet, PC, digital media adaptor, streaming-enabled TV, or other DLNA- or UPnP-supporting devices. Nero 12 supports virtually all the latest video formats, including AVC/264, MKV, MP4, 3GP, AVI.

The result of Nero's support for burning and streaming is disaster-proof data; and Nero is Windows 8 compatible. It takes only seconds to schedule an automatic backup with Nero LIVEBackup in Nero BackItUp 12. Now, you can back up to hard drives larger than 2 TB. Nero also supports USB 3.0 storage devices. Should your destination be optical media, Nero supports burning to CDs, DVDs or Blu-ray.

App Pro’s: Windows 8 compatible.

App Con’s: Blu-ray only supported in Nero Platinum, pricey.

Conclusion: Nero 12 is a great application; and one of my favorite multimedia burning suites. I've used it for years. While the app supports Windows 8, streaming, and nearly any multimedia format you'd be interested in, it is quite pricey, and there are other, suites that you may find more affordable. If cost isn't a huge issue, then this is probably the best optical media app you can invest in.