Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #244 in Software
- Brand: Nero
- Model: AMER-12230000
- Released on: 2012-10-24
- ESRB Rating: Everyone
- Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows XP, Windows
- Format: DVD-ROM
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.25" h x
5.30" w x
7.50" l,
Features
- Stream your movies, photo slideshows and music playlists throughout your home
- Stabilize shaky videos from smartphones and handheld cameras
- Retro film themes
Nero 12 Platinum
Product Description
Nero 12 Platinum features seven of our most popular applications in one convenient bundle. Creative packs and free extension tools make it the complete multimedia suite – and the only one you’ll ever need to burn, edit, backup, rip, convert and play your movies, music and photos.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
34 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
Better than v11
By Pavel Tsvetkov
Nero v12 has hit the shelves. The world's most successful CD/DVD burning suite has experienced yet another reincarnation, while trying to evolve into the ultimate digital experience suite.PROS:1. NERO LISTENS TO CUSTOMERS: This time around the installation file is much smaller, which means that the developers at Nero has taken note of what customers had to say about previous versions.2. RELIABLE TECHNOLOGY: I have friends still using versions 6 and 7, so that should give you an idea of how good software engineering has been at Nero - if the product still works well after all those years.3. NBR - NO 1: Nero Burying ROM - the heart and soul of the digital suite - is as good as ever, and with the addition of Nero DiscSpan and SecurRom is currently offering more than any other CD/DVD authoring suite on the planet.4. REVAMPED: Nero Video (formerly known as Nero Vision) has been revamped and continually improved since version 10 with background editing, Express Editing and Storyboarding tools, Prosumer workflow on demand, etc. and will not leave the user wanting. Nero Recode seems to have been re-written from scratch, and is starting to look good. It should become a major player in the segment with its next version. I would recommend the following further development: (1) a bigger (longer) encoding bar visualization, even a detachable one that would show progress on top of other windows, when the main Nero Recode window has been closed; (2) the constantly spinning clock is hardly necessary - it would be preferable to have a visualization that shows time taken and remaining; please, also check if time calculation is consistent, when pausing and continuing jobs; (3) it would be great if the user could control CPU load and pick the number of CPU cores used (along the lines of IMTOO video encoder). (4) Time calculation until finish seems to change back and forth too often - please, correct it.5. A NEW LOOK AND FEEL: Gone are the balloon transitions that took a looong time to disappear, and almost no one seemed to like.6. A SENSIBLE APPROACH: Nero Burning ROM, Nero Video and Nero BackItUp are sold separately, so you can pick the product you need at the optimum price, or buy the whole package in Nero v11 Platinum. Offering those applications separately means that Nero has finally recognized the fact that not all components in the bundle may be described as equally successful - and has done what would be right for customers.CONS1. TIME AND SPACE ISSUES: Installation took quite a long time: comparable with the installation of Windows XP. Further, immediately after the installation Nero reported that an update was available (why, if I had just downloaded the installation package from their website?), so I had to go through the long download and update process again. I would recommend to have updated installation packages (trials) on the site - it would save customers time. Also: it seems that gigabytes of installation data is left behind on the HDD. If this is true, it needs to be erased at the end of the installation process. You need to remove those manually, which is both unnecessary and is an overkill for the average user.2. PLAYBACK AND VIEWER ISSUES: Since v10 Nero have decided to drop Showtime - their dedicated DVD player, which may not have been the best on the market, but was nevertheless quite useful. Version 12 introduces NERO Blu-ray Player (the successor of Nero Showtime), but that said, I would like to point out that on my computer (HP Elitebook 6930p with a DVD player) I have not been able to use NERO Blu-ray Player even once: it does not want to play DVDs, or *.avi's or any other media file, so it has been useless to me. I hope this is a problem that has happened only to me.3. BUNDLED, BUT UNNECESSARY: BackItUp is a Nero bundled product that I do not install. Why? I have ViceVersa, and the difference in functionality is simply enormous. BackItUp is eye candy, but I'd rather have a highly configurable piece of software with a more modest interface. Also, Kwik (which is a big and clumsy media manager) is still around, although why someone would like to install and use it with the excellent and free PotPlayer and Faststone Viewer/Picasa around, is beyond me.4. CONFUSING NAMES: Do we really need Nero Video and Nero Recode as separate products? Both are used to transcode, edit, manage video. Even their names are similar, so why not have a single product?5. TOO EXPENSIVE: Platinum is the best version of Nero on the market, but still it is a little pricey in my opinion. The truth is that burning CDs/DVDs/Blu-rays is in decline, as this medium will become less and less popular, and as far as the other bundled products are concerned, there are better rippers, players, viewers, backup tools on the market. It is difficult to justify the high price.CONCLUSION:1. Nero solidifies its position among the top players with CD/DVD burring tools being top-notch and Video (as well as the upcoming Recode) editing tools being among the best prosumer solutions on the market (Cyberlink, Roxio and Ulead being its close competitors). Nero Burning ROM is simply No 1 on the planet - period.2. Kwik and BackItUp - both products should either be re-thought fundamentally or dropped altogether. They are just eye candy, but no one wants a slow and clumsy interface combined with limited functionality.3. It seems that Nero developers have paid attention to customer complaints and the new Nero v12 is tidier and quicker than its predecessor.4. A reduction in price could be helpful.Kind Regards,PTs
52 of 64 people found the following review helpful.
Did NOT even install
By techfan
Do NOT purchase this product. I purchased it from Nero's web site, as a download. I tried repeated (unsuccessful) installation attempts. Each displayed the number "1158" and no other error text. I then contacted Nero.I responded immediately, and thoroughly, to their requests for information. Finally, after more than a week without resolution, I reluctantly requested instructions for obtaining a refund.Nero's exact response was as follows: "Thank you for your e-mail. Please be advised that we are unable to offer a refund, as defined by our terms of trade. These terms were accepted with the purchase of Nero from our website [...]."If you have doubts about this review, try searching "Nero error 1158" for countless similar complaints.I previously owned Nero 7 Ultimate. It was a great product. However, the company has now slid so far downhill that they will not even provide a refund for a product that fails to install.Following Nero's final response, I immediately contacted my credit card company. They (American Express) were wonderfully helpful. If you purchase the product anyhow, and encounter similar issues, I suggest you also contact your credit card company.This is the first time I've seen a product that fails to install. Further, the one or two complaints I've had, in the past 25 years, have been dealt with professionally. Even companies consisting entirely of a single developer have responded more appropriately. To see a company, like Nero, behave so unprofessionally is truly disappointing...and unexpected.I truly hope they revise their approach towards customer service and return to their previous excellence.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
I imagine it is great, if it worked.
By Michael Piovane
I have used Nero products since Nero 5, always opting for the best they have to offer because they had the best to offer. Unfortunately the Nero 10 Suite is the last product that has lived up to my expectations, and even that one had some issues, mostly pertaining to the installation after that it was fine. I have a small hit list of what I find to be major problems, for me at least, and almost no positive comments on this version.My first and biggest complaint is the fact that if, like me, you use a Server OS as your desktop in your home or small business you have to go through an extensive process of modifying the installer to actually get it to install. Even though the kernel for Win7 and Server 2K8 R2 are almost identical Nero wont allow the install to go through, why, I have no clue it you make the adjustments it works all the way through. Honestly even if there was some warning and a notice of no support because you are installing on an unsupported OS I think we would be okay. Chances are if we are using a server OS we have the brains to trouble shoot our own problems. (And in regards to the inevitable "if you are using a server why don't you get a desktop" or "get server grade software for your server" comments, I like to stick with companies I have had a good experience with in the past and I made the switch to server from desktop to make my network more secure and more customizable why would I want another $10K system if the server does everything a desktop does. I can even install all of my games without modification. What makes Nero so ******* special?My second problem with this great but horrible suite is the lack of support for network storage(I have to use the suite inside of a VM because of the previous issue and only have 50GB of allocated space, why would I make a 500GB VHD if I only need it to do one thing?). I have not gotten a single Nero product to function with a network storage location without having to pull all of my hair out, and the one I did get to work stopped again after a system restart. This is almost a bigger problem than my first because I record video in very very large chunks, between 400-600GB in one file (I record games by the way so pick you minds up out of the gutter please). I compress and edit later and the only place I can store that much in one go is my server. I need to resolve one of these two problems or I can not stay using Nero any more.Third on my hit list is the terrible performance in a Virtual environment, I have gotten Sony Vegas Pro and World of Warcraft to run simultaneously in a VM with less lag time than I could get any Nero software to just open. I do not know why this is such a problem but it is a really bad one. I ran Sony and WoW on a 2 core 4GB RAM VM and ran Nero on a 8 core 16GB RAM VM (I al so shutdown all other VMs on the servers) and it took me almost three hours to just close Nero after it opened. I also tried so switch the VMs specs and Nero wouldn't even open on the 4GB VM it froze and crashed the VM. I ultimately had to scrap all of the VMs I tried installing Nero to as it caused them to repetitively crash or fail.I have a forth issue but it is really just more of the first three.On the bright side when I do get everything working in the "perfect scenario" the suite does preform wonderfully. I did use the back up software for a time but opted for a free alternative that supported network storage after I got my second data server back up and running full tilt.Over all I would recommend this to anyone who has a decent need for this kind of software but really doesn't want something too technical. Home users with no home media server, this would fit nicely. If you are like me and have a large network storage system with virtual servers and need some network compatibility, chances are you are going to have problems just because of the way you are going to use this. Save your self the migraines and sleepless nights thinking you are the problem not the software, and find something else.P.S. Nero if you read this, giving me a work around or fix to any of my issues would make me a much happier geek. If you fix one I can work around the others. If not, I am sorry but I don't think I can shell out 100+ dollars for each new version when nothing works for me. Good Luck Nero!MP
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