But when I went to burn a copy, my Blu-ray media wasn't compatible. When I tried ripping a Hollywood movie Blu-ray, The Big Year, the program made me wait for 20 minutes while it read the whole disk, even though the label said it was copy protected. It can erase BD-RE media, which it did very quickly for my test movie project, taking just a few seconds. As with other burning operations, the program showed an estimate of time remaining and progress bars for each operation.īlu-ray The disc-burning suite can create Blu-ray movies (including menus, just as with DVD movie discs above) and data discs. This compared favorably with competitors: Nero Burning ROM 11 took 4:59, and CyberLink Power2Go took 5:10 for the same job. I used the 3.4GB Windows 8 installer disc ISO to test this, writing to a 16x DVD, which took 4:54 minutes. I could also burn a disk image file in ISO format. Even further in the reverse direction, you can erase an –RW disc. But I couldn't rip copy-protected discs, as you'd expect. You can then create a modified copy of the disc to a new one, adding files even to a bootable disc. Ripping and ISOs Burning Studio also lets you go the other way-ripping disc images to the PC from CDs, DVDs, and even Blu-rays. I was pleasantly surprised that I could add menus and chapters to a Blu-ray disc project, too the same project in Blu-ray took 5:42 to format and burn (compared with 7 minutes for NCH). I will say that the menus Ashampoo created looked blotchy on playback, so again, you're probably better off with purpose-made DVD authoring software. A similar project in NCH Express Burn took 8:48 minutes. Creating and Burning a menued DVD with 4 clips and one a single, to a 4.7GB DVD took 7:13 minutes on my 3.4GHz quad-core test machine with 4GB RAM, writing to 16X DVD-R media. After editing, I could add a menu to the movie, from 15 theme and color choices. In all, I was impressed with Burning Studio's digital movie skills-it even let me rotate video clips-but for real editing, even things like changing the brightness, colors, and other effects, you'll need true video editing software, such as our Editor's Choice, CyberLink PowerDirector ($99.95, 4.5 stars).
And some of my clips couldn't be included because of a lack of codec support. One problem I had, though, was that I couldn't expand the timeline view of my clips, which were jammed together. I could also trim the beginning and end of video clips, split it, or cut out a section from the middle. I could add text and shapes to the movie, as well as music and a choice of 19 transitions. But you can do more than just add clips and images-the program lets you author movies and slideshows using themes like Action, Birth, Breaking News, and Horror-25 are included, and you can download a $14.99 Theme Pack with dozens more.
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