User manual
Table Of Contents
- 1.1 About the manual
- 1.2 About Nero Recode
- 1.3 Versions with different ranges of functions
- 1.4 Terminology
- 2.1 System requirements
- 3.1 Launching Nero Recode via Nero StartSmart
- 5.1 Basic settings
- 5.1.1 General tab
- 5.1.2 DVD tab
- 5.1.3 Nero Digital™ tab
- 5.1.4 Preview window tab
- 5.1.5 File I/O tab
- 5.2 Import Files screen
- 5.3 Burn Settings screen
- 5.4 Recoding and Burning screen
- 6.1 Task-specific input options
- 6.2 Recoding
- 7.1 Task-specific input options
- 7.2 Recoding
- 8.1 Task-specific input options
- 8.2 Recoding
- 9.1 Task-specific input options
- 9.2 Recoding
- 10.1 Task-specific input options
- 10.2 Recoding
- 1-pass
- 2-pass
- AAC
- AC3
- AVC
- B-Frame
- Bilinear Interpolation
- Focal plane
- Bicubic interpolation
- Bit rate
- Book type
- CABAC
- Deinterlace
- Decoding
- Encoding
- GOP
- I-Frame
- Image file
- Interlace
- Interpolation
- Lanczos interpolation
- Letterbox
- Macroblock
- Macroblock level
- MPEG
- Multithreading
- P-Frame
- Plug-ins
- Quantization
- Recoding
- Stream or Streaming
General information
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1.3 Versions with different ranges of functions
Nero Recode is not just available in the full version. The versions differ from the full version
in terms of the range of functions, i.e. they cannot perform all the tasks described in this
manual and the user interface is adapted to the specific version.
The following versions are available:
Nero Recode
Full version
Nero Recode Essentials
The following features of the full version may not be included:
PSP export function
iPod export function
Nero Recode Essentials SE
Exclusive features:
Recode an entire DVD to DVD
Burn function (via Nero API)
Nero Recode Essentials CE
The following features of the full version are not included:
Recode an entire DVD
Recode a main movie to DVD
Change the structure of a DVD
1.4 Terminology
Encoding means the conversion of a video of any format into another format, for example
MPEG-2 or Nero Digital™ (MPEG-4). A corresponding encoder is required for every tar-
get format.
Transcoding means the conversion of a video from one particular format into another par-
ticular format, for example from Xvid to MPEG-2.
Recoding means the conversion of an existing video with certain properties (e.g. bit rate
2500 kbps) into the same format with different properties (e.g. bit rate 1990 kbps).
Decoding means opening or playing a video that has been encoded in a particular format.
In this manual transcoding is used synonymously with encoding.