Nero 9 Essentials Suite 3 enhances every aspect of your digital lifestyle, offering ease of use while remaining reliable and dependable, with improvements catering to your digital wants and needs. Nero frees you to do more with your digital content. Create, manage, and share your music, videos, and photos with fast and easy to use tools which allow you to explore and enjoy the unlimited possibilities with Nero 9.

Creative Projects Are Easier than Ever
Using the intuitive Nero StartSmart command center of Nero 9, your digital life has never been more flexible, feasible, and fun. You directly access features and perform one-click functions such as Audio Ripping, Burning, Copying, and AutoBackup, with optimized performance for Windows Vista with Nero DiscCopy Gadget.

Fully Enjoy Your Content at Home, Online and On-the-go
Whether it's video, photo, or music, you can convert and share everything your imagination creates in your digital world. Convert & share multimedia files to play on iPod, PSP, and upload online your coolest photos and videos to share with online communities like My Nero, YouTube, and MySpace.

Make Your PC a Dynamic Home-Entertainment Device
Experience TV from the comfort of your sofa with state-of-the-art TV technology, even for HDTV and DVB Radio. Pause, record, schedule, manage, and playback your TV shows.

Best in the Business Software Gets Better
The ripping and burning capabilities of Nero 9 are the most reliable in the industry. Burn and copy to CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc--even copy movies. With DVD-R Dual Layer and DVD+R Double Layer support, you'll get more data on a disc than ever before!

Trusted and Reliable--Backup, Restore, and Secure
Don't lose your valuable memories and important files to life's potential hazards, system crash, or risky hardware. Backing up, securing, and managing files and data is a point-and-click away.

Create & Edit

Video
Whether you're recording soccer games, concerts, or family reunions, get professional results in an easy-to-use video creation and editing tool. Use the Movie Wizard template library and create entertaining movies for every occasion (birthdays, weddings, vacations). Watch seamless movies or music videos, without commercials or other scenes interrupting, by using Ad Spotter to automatically cut them out. Become the movie director you were meant to be!

Music
Dust off your old CDs and LPs and digitally archive them forever. Easily manage and play your favorite music titles with new music recognition service delivers accurate song and artist information, and album art (Powered by Gracenote). Browse media for playback, create playlists of your favorite audio tracks, shuffle and categorize tracks for easy reference. Simply create MP3 archives of your favorite Music videos with Music Grabber.

Photo
Make all your digital photos come to life. Share the stories of your life's most memorable moments with professional photo-editing tools to correct red-eyes, crop, rotate, adjust, and enhance photo quality. Create entertaining photo slideshows with special effects, transitions, and music; burn it on DVD with great 3D menus and share with family and friends.

Convert & Share

High-Definition
Make use of the latest AVCHD or HDV camcorders, edit your project in HD quality including Nero SmartEncoding for AVCHD and create an AVCHD disc on a regular DVD medium (red laser) or a BD-AV disc (blue laser).

Convert & enjoy multimedia files on iPod, PSP
Convert your music, videos, and photos to DVD, CD, or your portable devices and enjoy them on the go. Convert your old CDs, LPs, and tapes to MP3s and save them forever--Gracenote MusicID will give you the track information, titles, and great album art to complete your collection.

Internet
Upload your coolest photos and videos to share with online communities like YouTube, MySpace, and My Nero.

Home Entertainment

Media Center
New amazing TV experience from the comfort of your sofa gives you state-of-the-art TV technology, even for HDTV and DVB Radio. Integrates into Windows Vista Media Center and Windows XP Media Center Edition.

High-Definition Television
Record, manage, playback, and enjoy your favorite TV shows--even for HDTV. Watch High-Definition TV and use the P-i-P ("picture-in-picture") mode for watching 2 channels at the same time.

Playback Media Management
ShowTimeDVD and multimedia player features latest digital audio and video file formats, a new playback design--with convenient playlist handling, shuffle playback, as well as docking and stand-by modes of both, the browser window and playlists. New display, with Gracenote music services, shows clear and accurate track and artist information, as well as album art.

Rip & Burn

Best in the World!
Fast and easy ripping, burning and copying of CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs directly through Nero StartSmart. With DVD-R Dual Layer and DVD+R Double Layer support, you'll get more data on a disc than ever before!

DiscCopy Gadget
One-click disc copy with Nero DiscCopy Gadget--optimized for Windows Vista.

Personalized Disc Labels
Personalize your discs with labels, covers, and booklets, and choose from multiple templates or customize with your own images.

Backup

Protect and Archive Files and Data
Safely backup to archive, protect, and manage your multimedia library for generations to come. Don't lose your valuable memories and important files to life's potential hazards, or risky hardware--protectively archiving files and data is a point-and-click away.

Securely Manage Content
Customize automatic functions for easy and convenient Autobackup for offline or online files storage. Schedule automatic backups to ensure consistency and recover and preserve files and data with Nero RescueAgent. Easily scan for most media types and files, with quick overview of damage and rescue status.

*Includes mp3PRO Plug-in, Nero RescueAgent, and Nero DiscCopy Gadget trials.