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What is new in Nero Platinum 2019?

Nero 2019 lets users easily merge and consolidate all of their media and data located on mobile devices, on external hard discs and storage drives, on a PC or within the cloud to one central storage location, e.g. a PC, an external hard disc or the cloud. Via DriveSpan App for iOS and Android users can now comfortably control and trigger the consolidation of all devices connected via the same WiFi network. When the consolidation is finished all data are clean, i.e. duplicate media and data are being identified within the consolidation process and will not be copied. Nero Suite 2019 users (Platinum/Standard) have access to the complete App version with all features enabled. The free version available in the App Stores is restricted for consolidation from mobile/cloud to cloud only. Users that want to include their PC and even their Mac into the consolidation can buy this feature via In-App-Purchase.

NEW: ‘Nero Start’

Via the brand new Nero Start application users of Nero 2019 will get going with their new product much more easily and achieve result even faster than before. The new user interface with completely updated design and workflows now includes animated buttons, which make the former next/previous page behavior superfluous, and also integrates a last used application function. Another highlight is ‘1-Click Video Story‘, that integrates into Nero QuickStart. Users simply drag & drop photos or videos into the drop zone and their files will load automatically with a pre-designed movie theme inside of Nero Video. Nero Start is available for all Nero Suite and standalone products and also includes access to Nero KnowHow PLUS.

NEW: ‘Nero KnowHow PLUS’ and ‘Live Guide’

Many Nero customers already know and utilize the Nero learning center ‘Nero KnowHow’. So far, the app was limited to Windows 10 and mobile users (iOS/Android). Starting with Nero 2019 any user can now benefit from the brand new ’Nero KnowHow PLUS‘ under Windows 7, 8, and 10 as a new PC application. A unique and very comfortably integrated feature is the new ‘Live Guide‘ which simply gives context sensitive help for the application in use and for the given use case via FAQ, manual page and video tutorial. This way, utilizing the Nero Suite becomes even more easy and intuitive. Customers can also send direct feedback to Nero within the given context.

NEW in Nero DuplicateManager Photo: Find & Remove ‘Similar Images’

Many users have a whole bunch of similar images sitting on their PC, be it due to photo editing, HDR series shots, resizing, format conversion, and more. It is so easy to get lost in one’s photo archive that has heaped up on the PC over years. This is where the brand new feature ‘find & remove similar images’ in Nero DuplicateManager Photo comes into place. The new function finds similar images and automatically sorts it into categories of similarity types: “Places, Series, Motive, Resized, Format, Other “. This way, users get a fast and comfortable overview of their similar images and can easily decide which ones to delete and which ones to keep. Getting their duplicate images and similar images cleaned up, users will gain more storage space on their PCs and at the same will have Nero MediaHome as their central media archive cleaned automatically, too.

NEW in Nero MediaHome: Access ‘OneDrive Files on Demand’

With Nero 2019 Nero MediaHome users can now access their ‘OneDrive online files on demand’ and have the option to individually download these, only when needed. This way, they can save storage capacity on their PC while having photos, videos, movies, TV shows, and music available anytime via download in Nero MediaHome, and thanks to Nero MediaBrowser even in any other Nero application.

NEW in Nero Video: ‘Nero LifeThemes PRO’

The Platinum version of Nero 2019 comes with a complete new package of high-quality movie themes and videodisc menus, and additionally includes a brand new set of vertical video themes for editing, exporting, and sharing a 9:16 vertical video on the smartphone. The pack also includes high-quality royalty-free music, which can be used independently in any video project. The ‘Nero LifeThemes PRO’ templates consist of motives suiting the best moments of everybody’s life: Cities, Landscapes, Pets, Wild Animals, and Nostalgia themes.

NEW in Nero Video: ‘1-Click Video Story’

Nero Video in Nero 2019 now comes with a very comfortable new feature that helps creating polished movies and slideshows in a snap. Simply drag & drop photos and videos to the drop zone in Nero Video and select ‘1-Click Video Story’. All files will automatically be loaded into a pre-designed video project complete with intro and outro sequence, effects, captions and matching music. Simply preview the video project, export, and share it.

NEW in Nero Recode: Convert to ‘Disc-compatible Formats’

Now, Nero users can transcode non-compliant source video files to fully compatible videodisc file formats prior to importing them into videodisc projects (DVD-Video™, AVCHD, Blu-ray Disc™). After conversion, the files can be handed over to video editing or authoring projects in Nero Video. Thanks to this new pre-conversion function in Nero Recode the time needed for rendering and burning a videodisc in Nero Video can be drastically reduced by utilizing Nero SmartEncoding. The new Disc-compatible profiles are also beneficial for users that want to utilize 4K source video for editing and exporting to Full HD or Blu-ray Discs™ but lack a more powerful editing system. When transcoding from 4K to Full HD before sending the video files to Nero Video, also lower performing systems will work more effectively.

NEW in Nero BackItUp: BackUp and Restore via the Cloud

Now, Nero users can do their online backups with ‘OneDrive’ and ‘Google Drive’ cloud storage. Actually, data can also be restored online, making backing up and restoring with Nero BackItUp independent of a special location.

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Why can’t I add my CD or DVD drive to the Nero MediaHome library directly?

When you click on the ‘Add manually…’ button in Nero MediaHome ‘Options > Library’ you will see your hard disk devices as well as all attached USB hard disks or sticks, including folders and subfolders for selection. When you add one of these folders, its content will be scanned and added to Nero MediaHome library. The browsing view will then show all your media in the relevant categories (My Photos, My Videos, My Slideshows, Music, Movies, TV Shows).

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When you have a video disc or audio CD in your disc drive, Nero MediaHome can play the content directly, but it cannot add this disc content directly to the library. In the case of an Audio CD you can import and convert your music to MP3, AAC, or lossless FLAC audio format via the CD-Ripping function.

With the import function the disc content will be ripped to the location you have defined in ‘Options > Optical Discs’, and will be added to Nero MediaHome media library automatically.

A perfect feature included in Nero MediaHome ripping is Gracenote ® Music Technology which will add album information and album covers to your songs. This way you can very comfortably browse and play your content from Nero MediaHome library, or even stream it inside of your home network.

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Why can’t I add my Smartphone to the Nero MediaHome library directly?

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A different case applies when you have a smartphone attached via USB. This is not regarded as regular disk device, which you can add to the library. It is a mobile media device, the content of which (photo, video, music) you need to import first. Within the import process, the content will be made compatible to your options if wanted or needed.

After the selected content from your mobile device has been imported to the location you have defined in ‘Options > Portable Devices’, it will be added to the media library automatically.

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How can I sync Folders and Drives in Nero BackItUp?

Nero BackItUp is a great tool for doing regular backups of all your valuable files.

If you do not want to do a typical local copy (click here to check out Nero KnowHow 00054), a case for you might be synchronizing two folders in two different drives on a regular basis.

Imagine you want to have the Windows library folders for Photos, Music and Videos in your PC backed up every now and then to a dedicated external storage location, say a hard disk, or a USB stick, which has the same folders. Your typical case is to have these folders always in a ‘fresh’ state on the hard disk or USB stick, i.e. the same way they exist on your PC. Having these attached to your TV set, you can always enjoy your latest media in the living room.

A regular backup should be very meaningful for you, in order to have all your files associated to the three folders available in a synchronized state on the external drive. This way you can just use the second drive as your playback device while the PC remains the general archive for all your sources.

Nero BackItUp has an easy ‘Sync’ function allowing you doing backups between two storage folder locations in two different ways.

If you select ‘Sync folders 1:1’ Nero BackItup will make sure that each of the two folders on the two drives is always kept synchronous, i.e. identical. This is meaningful when you sometimes add files to this drive, or also the other drive.

In your described case, it makes more sense to use the second option, which is ‘Copy folders left to right`. As you always put all your media to the internal PC folders first, it makes perfect sense to use this scenario and have incremental backups of your three folders ever so often.

Incremental means that after Nero BackItUp did a first backup, going forward, it will only copy the new or modified files compared to the last backup. In fact, this saves a lot of time.

So, select ‘Sync folders 1:1’ and start a new job by clicking on ‘Add Backup’, then browse your PC drive for the music folder under the library, and Nero BackItUp will add the path C:\users\yourname\Music to the left. Do the same for your attached drive. Make sure you have created three empty folders there first (Music, Videos, Photos). Add one job for each folder. Now, you only need to decide if you want to do this manually each time or if you want to add a scheduled backup. Scheduled backups should be your preferred option. Click ‘Sync now’ and the initial backup will start right away.

Backup multiple Folder Jobs between two Drives over Time via ‘Local Copy’

When you want to back up a larger amount of dedicated folders between two drives over time, it is easier to make use of ‘local copy’, and select the wanted folders within the customization page of Nero BackItUp. This way you will achieve the backup results via one job, only.

Try it out: it is easy, fast, and gives this great feeling of having all your valuable media files backed up over time in a safe place.

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Why do I get the message ‘Please insert an empty disc…’ or similar when trying to burn?

If your Nero application shows this message in one or the other form, the following overview shows potential problem scenarios and possible solutions.

Problem 1

Your disc is not empty

Solution

It might have happened that you inserted a disc into your drive, which is not empty, i.e. burned data already exist on this disc
Please put an empty disc into your disc recorder drive
The compilation size gives you a reference

Problem 2

a) You have selected to burn more than one copy at a time
b) You are burning a disc with Nero DiscSpan

Solutions

a) If you have selected burning several disc copies with one recorder, Nero will ask you to insert a disc into your drive, each time one disc burning is done
b) This message will also show when using Nero DiscSpan in Nero Burning ROM, which allows you to burn large projects over several discs – even different types of discs – in sequence
Within the burn process, Nero Burning ROM will pop up this message ever so often in order to burn to the next disc

Problem 3

a) Your disc does not comply to the type of compilation (disc project) that you have chosen initially
b) You have more than one disc recorder in your PC or attached to your PC externally

Solutions

a) Make sure that the type of disc project you have selected complies with the type of disc in your disc drive. For example: If you have selected an Audio-CD project, put an empty CD-R or CD+R into your disc recorder
If you want to burn a DVD-Video disc, insert and empty DVD-R or DVD+R disc into your disc drive
b) In a normal case, you want to burn your disc just once, with one disc recorder. In this case make sure to put the disc into the recorder drive that you have selected for burning
If you have selected burning to multiple disc recorders please make sure to have a disc inserted into each recorder, so that the message will not pop up

TIP! for more details on disc types check Nero KnowHow Glossary

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