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How do I make my photos look better with just one or two clicks?

Open ‘Nero MediaHome‘ and attach your smartphone, DSC or USB stick to your PC. ‘Nero MediaHome‘ will detect your device and show files on your device that you can select for importing. If your photos are already availabe on your PC, ‘Nero MediaHome’ will probably already have scanned your system and will show the in images in ‘timeline view’, ‘faces view’, or ‘places view’. You can also add folders manually to ‘Nero MediaHome watched folders or drives ‘ by clicking ‘Options‘ > ‘Library‘.

Now select a photo in browsing view and double click on it. Your photo will open in full screen view. In the bottom panel click ‘Edit Photo‘.

A message box appears telling you that all changes you are to apply in any part of the image editing will be stored in history for an ‘undo‘ at any point later. It is also very convenient that you do not have to save any of the changes applied. Check the box ‘Never show me again‘ and proceed via ‘ok’.

Now the left hand image editing menu opens. Click on ‘Auto Enhance‘ for one click image fixing, or click ‘Auto Exposure‘ and ‘Auto Color‘ to auto enhance these two values individually. In our example we just clicked
‘Auto Exposure‘ to brighten up the image while color already looked great.

Under ‘Adjust‘ you will find more options for manually fine tuning your images, if wanted.

You can also crop and straighten your images, or remove red eyes. Let us take a look at the crop functions.

As you can see you have handles top, bottom, left, and right to easily crop your image to the wanted dimensions. Click ‘Apply’ for using the selected dimensions. Under ‘Manual‘ you will also find typical useful template sizes to auto-apply (post card sizes, A4, 16:9, 4:3, and more).

Now, let us also take a look at the nice image enhancing effects. You have got a number of vintage photo effect templates here. Just put the mouse over one of the effect templates and you will see a preview immediately. Then just click on the wanted effect template and it will be applied automatically. In our example we used a sepia effect.

That’s how easy it is to enhance your images with ‘Nero MediaHome‘ applying just one or two clicks.

By the way: you can also make use of these easy image enhancing functions when you have a series of images inside of a slideshow project – you don’t even have to leave your project for applying image enhancement.

Just try it out and have fun.

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Why do I get a “Unable to open the database file.” message upon launch of Nero MediaHome?

Please open Nero MediaHome via Nero 2017 launcher screen.

Background Information:

In former versions Nero MediaHome used to be a standalone product that was version independent from Nero Suite product releases. A new version or an update of Nero MediaHome would have just updated any version of Nero MediaHome on the same system and overwritten the former version.

Starting with Nero 2017, Nero MediaHome 2017 like any other application of Nero Suite was changed to be version dependent with Nero Suite releases. There is also no feature reduced free version of Nero MediaHome available any longer. Due to these modifications the new product can be better positioned in the market and you as a paying customers can benefit from an extended feature set. Moreover, there is no disadvantage or risk of data loss against older versions. Any asset of the media library of an existing product will be automatically taken over to the new Nero Media Home 2017.

Same as before, only the latest available Nero MediaHome on an end-user system is allowed to access the media library. Different than before now an older version can exist side by side with new Nero MediaHome 2017 on the same system. In such a scenario – if you try to open a former version of Nero MediaHome (which by design does not include the media library any longer) it will fail to launch with the message: “Unable to open the database file.” This is the expected behavior and you can safely uninstall the older version.

Also, if you are using the text search from Windows start menu to launch Nero MediaHome possibly an older version might be executed and you will run into the same issue. In this case you can safely uninstall the older version of Nero MediaHome, too.

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Does Nero allow streaming media files between two mobile devices, independantly of my PC?

Yes, this is possible with Nero mobile streaming solutions.

When you have two mobile devices available within your home network you can use one device with Nero Streaming Player App as streaming server and the second device with Nero Receiver App as client.

With this setup it is extremly easy to stream your photos, videos, and music e.g. on your iPhone with Nero Streaming Player App to your second mobile device (e.g. your iPad) utilizing Nero Receiver App.

Find information on how to use Nero Streaming Player in this blog: Nero KnowHow 00045.

Find information on how to use Nero Receiver App in this blog: Nero KnowHow 00057.

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How to play videos, photos, and music located on my PC wirelessly to Nero Receiver?

Nero Receiver is compatible to many UPnP / DLNA media servers like Windows Media Player®, Cyberlink Power DVD®, Nero MediaHome®, and more. Nero Receiver is available at Google Play Store for mobile phones and Android TV.

In Combination with Nero MediaHome on your PC, Nero Receiver even extends its functions:

Navigation functions: play single videos or several videos in sequence, and make use of previous title/next title
Via search function jump to any place withing your movie
Play Nero MediaHome design slideshows with effect designs, intro, outro, titles, and matching music
Viewing of family and friends via face recognition
Simply viewing places you have visited
Browsing and playing of your personal collection of movies and TV Shows via movie poster thumbnails
Listening to your favorite songs and music genres via your music playlist

This is how you use Nero Receiver via Nero MediaHome

Open Nero MediaHome on your PC
Select the “Play To“ button presenting the active device list
Select “Nero Receiver” from this list
Select a video, photo, slideshow, or a music playlist in Nero MediaHome
Click on the play button in Nero MediaHome
Your mobile device will load and immediately play your selection
Via play control in Nero Receiver use Pause, Start, Stop, previous/next Title

This is how you use Nero Receiver via Windows Media Player®

Select a file via Windows Explorer
Right click on the chosen file and select “Cast to device”, then select “Nero Receiver”
Your selected video will show as thumbnail within the streaming playlist window and autoplay once loaded
If you selected several videos as a playlist Nero Receiver will play them sequentially
Full navigation controls Start/Stop/Pause/previous/next Title will only be available in Windows MediaPlayer Streaming window
Within Nero Receiver you can use Play/Pause/Stop

Before you can do media streaming via Windows Media Player® you need to activate media streaming under “Windows Control Panel“, once:

Open “Windows Control Panel” and type “Media” into the search field top right
Click on “Media Streaming Options” (located directly under “Network and Sharing Services”)
Activate media streaming via clicking on the respective button
Personalise streaming options to your needs

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I edit and convert Full HD and 4K videos, and also play 4K videos on my PC. When using Nero which kind of PC system would I need?

For editing, transcoding, exporting, and playback of 4K video you need a high perfomance PC system equipped with minimum processor types like Intel® Core™ i7-2600K (3,4 GHz) or AMD FX 8320 (3,5 GHz). We recommend at least for 4 GB of RAM – more will be better.

If you are also utilizing the latest high quality video format ‘HEVC’ (High Efficiency Video Coding) – only supported in Nero 2017 Platinum – your PC must be equipped with a processor type of at least Intel® Core™ i7-6700 (4 GHz) and a minimum of 8 GB of RAM.

Also make sure to have a well perfoming graphics card available with a dedicated video RAM of at least 256 MB. For fast encoding and transcoding Nero applications utilize hardware acceleration technology of graphics cards supporting NVIDIA® CUDA™, AMD App Acceleration, and Intel® Quick Sync Video. Make sure your graphics card supports one of these standards in order to benefit from this function.

Your hard disk should have a minimum of 5 GB free storage space. This is needed for program and effect content installation as well as temporary files during processing.

For burning and play back of DVD-Video discs you need a DVD recorder drive. This will also be utilized for installing from DVD disc if you have bought a box version product. If you plan to also burn your HD Video content to a Blu-ray Disc with menus you need to have a Blu-ray Disc recoder available (this will also burn CDs and DVDs).

The respective Nero products for your use cases (Nero 2017 Platinum, Nero 2017 Classic, Nero Video 2017, Nero MediaHome 2017) work with Windows^®7 SP1 Home Premium, Professional oder Ultimate (32/64 bit), Windows^® 8 (32/64 bit), Windows^® 8.1 with April 2014 update (32/64 bit) and Windows^® 10 (32/64 bit)

If you like playing your self created slideshows and videos also on the big TV screen in the living room, there is a comfortable way of doing this via streaming in your home network. Just install free ‘Nero Streaming Player‘ App on your smartphone or tablet via the app store and make use of your mobile device as a remote control for playing all your movies, photos and music from the PC to your TV via WiFi.

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