Nero Video authoring module has three access points that help you checking the playback order of your titles.
1. The content screen allows you to import and sort the order of video titles on your disc. Via drag & drop or context menu, you can modify the playback order.
2. Within the menu selection screen via “Customize” and “Advanced Editing”, please check the order and linkage in “Poperties: Button” and the dropdown menu under “Link to”.
3. Finally, the preview window allows you to verify navigation and playback of titles in your disc menu, just like they will be played back on the DVD Player in your living room. If you find any mismatches here, please go back for modifications under #1 or #2.
Nero Video Version 20.0.3001 has the following updates:
Choose from 44 new movie themes, 17 new disc menus and 5 new music tracks (Nero Platinum 2019 and Nero Video 2019 only)
New settings option to enable or disable automatic removal of black bars
Support for Nvidia Video Codec SDK 8.2 fixes hardware acceleration in encoding with Nvidia graphics cards. Please install Nvidia driver version 397.93 or higher
For executing an online update please open “Nero Control Center”, click “Update” and “Update Now”.
With the latest online update users of Nero Platinum 2019 and Nero Video 2019 get a full set of 66 new high quality Nero LifeThemes PRO including 44 Movie Themes, 17 Disc Menus, and 5 new royalty free pieces of music – everything for free!
New themes include motives for Day and Night, dedicated Do It Yourself Themes, multicolored variations of Polygons, and much more. Any of the new movie themes can be set to be used a default theme for 1-Click Video Story.
You can rotate photos and videos in Nero Video in Express Editing via the FX control window or in Advanced Editing via the Effect Palette and the Properties window.
Express Editing
Place your clip in the timeline. Hover over the thumbnail and you will see two icons. Click on the FX icon to open the Express Effect Window. Click on Rotation and select your option.
Advanced Editing
Place your clip in the timeline. Click on Effect Palette to open the associated Effect Properties window. Click on Rotation and select your option.
Tip: If you have shot photos and videos with your smartphone in portrait orientation you can also natively edit these in Nero Video Vertical Editing mode and export as vertical video. To do so, go to home screen and select ‘Edit Vertical Video’. Also see Nero KnowHow 00083
There are a number of options for you to view and preview your assets in Nero Video. ‘My Media’ is the key window for viewing, pre-viewing and checking all of your source assets.
Viewing your clips in My Media
Within ‘My Media’ you find three tabs for the different types of media: Videos, Pictures, and Audio.
By default this archive is already filled with a number of clips, so that you can start doing some editing even without having imported your own clips.
You may not know this, and that’s why it is even more worth pointing out: within the ‘Audio’ tab you have almost 60 royalty free music samples available that you can use in your projects (if you own Nero Platinum 2019). These are all of a high quality and can easily be pre-listened for selection in your project by clicking ‘list view’, selecting a piece of music, and clicking the play button in the preview thumbnail.
The viewing options for List view, Small thumbnails, and Large thumbnails apply to all tabs in My Media, so that you can flexibly select your preferred option. Also the option to set any of your of favorite clips as ‘Favorites’ applies to all of your assets within the tabs Videos, Pictures, and Audio.
Use ‘Show’ to view your media with applied filters
If you click on ‘Show’ in My Media, a drop down list will open. The default filter is ‘All’ and the preferred option depends on your project.
In many cases we can assume that a well suiting option will be ‘last imported’ to only view the clips that you actually imported after you had started your new project.
But you can also show your favorites, only, or just those clips that you are using in your project. The filter ‘Unused’ can be very convenient if you have finished your project and want to save it with only those assets that are actually used. Switching between views helps to keep the full picture.
In addition, under ‘Sort by’ you have further sorting functions (name, day, month, etc.) to adapt the list of source files to your needs and those of the project.
Preview and edit your assets individually with the pre-trim window
Double click on an asset in My Media and the preview window will open. This is available for all types of media and for any of these you can check the meta data if you click the respective tab (e.g. you can check the file format, the aspect ratio, the resolution, the codec of your source clip, etc).
A very useful feature of the pre-trim window is setting ‘mark in’ and ‘mark out’ and even creating subclips of your assets. This allows you to separate sequences of your clips before even adding them to the timeline. Each subclip will be placed into My Media as a separate new clip.
Even if you want to edit special sequences out of your audio or music assets upfront of using them in the timeline, you can use the pre-trim window, too.
Just try it out, it helps improving your editing workflows for the rough cut quite a bit, especially as all the workflows described here just work identically in ‘Express Editing’ and ‘Advanced Editing’.
In addition, under ‘Sort by’ you have further sorting functions (name, day, month, etc.) to adapt the list of source files to your needs and those of the project.
