Burn All Media to Any Disc - Burn data, photos, music and videos to Blu-ray, BDXL, DVDs and CDs.
Chang, CEO of CyberLink.“Whether it’s burning data, creating a DVD of your home videos, or saving your data with the new system recovery capabilities, Power2Go 8 delivers all the features users need in burning software in industry leading quality and reliability.”
“Power2Go 8 is the most versatile media burning tool on the market,” said Alice H. Power2Go 8 also includes WaveEditor 2, a sample-level precision waveform editor which features a new multi-timeline audio mixer allowing users to compose an audio output from multiple audio tracks.
Power2Go 8 introduces several new features, including the ability to create system recovery discs to backup data and restore a PC, and mount a disc image as a virtual drive.
Engineered to include several new features that deliver the most complete media burning experience, Power2Go 8 now burns system recovery discs, allowing users to not only burn videos, photos, music and data to any optical disc format but also save data and restore their PC after a hard disk failure. today launched a new version of its industry leading burning software, Power2Go. Elapsed time and projected time remaining were displayed, but the latter wasn't reliable or consistent.CyberLink Corp. Those apps took 5:42 and 7:46 respectively for the same video disc project.
Of course, most people won't be burning Blu-ray, as the media is much more expensive, and Power2Go is one of the more accomplished apps when it comes to menu authoring for your DVD movies, but it's nevertheless a big empty checkbox in the list of Power2Go's capabilities.īurning my test movie consisting of four clips of different formats took just 2:50 minutes, and the resulting playback quality surpassed what I'd experienced with Ashampoo Burning Studio and NCH Express burn. If you have a lot of HD content, this is a deal-killer. There's an even bigger drawback, however Power2Go can't create menus for Blu-ray disc projects, even in its expensive Platinum edition. But I couldn't rotate or trim my clips, as I could in Ashampoo Burning Studio.
Three templates are included, but you can download loads of menu templates free from CyberLink's DirectorZone. I could preview the video clips, choose a playback mode (all clips or menu), and even customize the menu elements and its tree structure. Video Projects Power2Go has one of the better interfaces around for creating a video compilation complete with title and menu pages. It can even create a "mixed mode" disc-one that contains both a standard audio CD alongside data files. In more audio news, Power2Go offers conversion of audio files among WMA, MP3, and WAV. Power2Go displayed elapsed and projected remaining time for the burn, which is reassuring. Burning the same 60-minute album to a blank CD took just 2:25 minutes. When I switched the format to MP3 at 192kbps, ripping the whole Buena Vista Social Club CD took just 2:03 minutes-nearly identical to the result I got with Ashampoo Burning Studio and NCH Express Burn. Music I could rip a CD, and the program helpfully and automatically filled in the album and track titles, but the default form was oddly WMA at 96kbps. Like Ashampoo Burning Studio, CyberLink also offers a desktop gadget for drag-and-drop burning. The app adds entries to the AutoPlay dialog that pops up whenever you insert media that it can perform operations on. Hovering your mouse cursor over any of these displays relevant choices in the lower section of the app's borderless gray window. Interface Power2Go's user interface is the class of the bunch: It's both clear and attractive, with seven large icons across the top to get you to each of the program's main functions: Data, Music, Video, Photo, System Recovery, Copy, and Utilities.
Thanfully, it didn't try to install browser toolbars and other piggybanking software, as most other apps in this category do.
After the long download, setup took 5 minutes on my test machine, a 3.4GHz quad-core with 4GB RAM and a Lite-On iHAS422 burner. For comparison, NCH Express Burn ($49.99, 3 stars, $59.95) is less than a single megabyte, while Ashampoo Burning Studio ($49.99, 4 stars) weighs in at 180MB. Setup Getting Power2Go's installer involves a larger download than most competitors, at 442MB.