With the ‘Soundtrax’ app, you can edit and mix audio for discrete 5.1/7.1 surround! Although intended for movies, your efforts can be exported to a 448kbps Dolby Digital (.ac3) file.

Audio editing is also allowed, invaluable if you’re transferring music from redundant formats to CD or MP3. Movies can be written to DVD/Blu-ray, exported as files or uploaded to YouTube. It is surprisingly well-designed and easy to use. The timeline-based video-editing functionality (‘Vision Xtra’) contains everything you need to piece together a slick-looking movie, whether SD or HD. Some of these programs link to others, as and when they’re needed. When the software is installed, you’ll find a collection of applications that cover a wide range of tasks including video/photo editing, soundtrack mixing, DVD authoring, video (re)compression, disc-burning and even the backup or recovery of important computer data. The Nero Multimedia Suite 10 now takes matters on a step further by enabling users to create and organise content as well as commit it to disc.

Many PC owners will be familiar with Nero’s ‘Burning ROM’ – this disc-writing software is, after all, bundled with many drives and PCs. Martin Pipe explores a comprehensive software suite

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