Ashampoo Burning Studio

Ashampoo Burning Studio is a very popular suite that includes many tools, which you can use to burn optical discs, or to create data backups and images. By using this powerful program, you will be able to burn CDs, DVDs, and even Blu-ray discs. Additionally, you can use the integrated tools to create disc covers, as well as multimedia slideshows and burn them afterward.

I like this application for the fact that it gathers a large number of tools under a professional and organized user-interface. Moreover, Ashampoo Burning Studio is also able to run in Compact mode. It is useful especially for beginners as it allows them to use drag-and-drop actions in order to add files and folders that need to be burned.

One important aspect about this program is that it properly runs on all Windows versions, including Windows 8. Furthermore, the program is available in more than 30 languages.

While testing the application, I noticed that it is capable of burning discs at very high speeds. It is not always recommended to burn your discs at high speed, but it can save you a lot of time when you’re in a hurry. Also, the program easily creates data images in formats like ISO, CUE, or ASHDISC.

To conclude with, I think this program comes at a reasonable price and you could give it a try.

The audio and video authoring features have been completely overhauled, adding many new features and capabilities. You can now create HD and Full HD Blu-ray video discs with interactive menus as well as DVDs and video disc editing is integrated in a single redesigned editor. The list of features below only includes the major highlights.

- A single integrated editor for DVD and Blu-ray editing
- Build and burn Blu-ray HD and Full HD video discs (16:9, PAL and NTSC)
- Completely new and improved Add Movies dialog
- Preview your movies directly in the editor
- New and improved DVD and Blu-ray menu themes with new preview functions
- Generate all your menus automatically or design them yourself
- New mirror function for items in the menu editor, free placement for all objects on your menu pages
- Menu Preview Player – test your video disc menus directly in the editor, everything is fully functional (buttons, multiple pages, play movies, skip, stop etc.)
- Use a wide variety of attractive 3D buttons and geometric shapes
- Use different themes for each menu page
- Use different background music for each menu page
- Replace automatically-generated menu pages with your own designs
- New menu background options: use movies, Ashampoo Burning Studio 10 slideshows, edited movies and themes as your menu backgrounds
- Improved video encoding, encoded video is always stored automatically and only needs to be re-encoded if you make changes
- Output directly to disc or to a folder
- Compress big movies to fit on a single DVD
- Create disc images for DVDs with different formats – compression is optimized for the selected format
- Burn Blu-ray videos directly from a folder of files prepared by Ashampoo Burning Studio or another authoring program 

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