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Burning CD's & DVD's
What is burning? Burning is transferring data from a 'source' to a CD or a DVD. The source can be your pictures, a programme, a video or documents. Burning software is needed to 'burn' an image onto the CD or DVD, a bit like recording a TV programme to a video tape or DVD disc.
Everyone who knows agrees that the built-in CD and DVD burner that is in Windows is not all that brilliant. That's why there are tons of free and bought-for software titles that do the job for you - and a lot better (and not to say quicker!).
Here at Tactical Panda we use a superb bit of software from Ashampoo called Burning Studio 2009. It's not free, but it is (in our opinion) certainly worth the few Euros it cost us! Of the free software offerings out there, one of the best is again from Ashampoo, but this is the free version, which will burn both CD's and DVD's, as well as BlueRay discs - here's what it will do:
- Multi-disc file backup and restore on CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs
- Create compressed backup archives with powerful password protection
- Split archives automatically across multiple CDs, DVDs or Blu-ray discs
- Restore archive contents to their original locations
- Integrated Audio CD ripper store your audio tracks as WMA or WAV files
- New option for setting the number of copies you want to burn (available for all disc formats)
- Discs can now be verified immediately without being ejected first (if the drive supports this feature)
- Burn files and folders on data CDs/DVDs/Blu-ray discs
- Burn Audio CDs from WAV, MP3, FLAC, WMA and Ogg Vorbis files
- Burn MP3-CDs from your MP3 files
- Burn Video DVD, Video CD (VCD) or Super Video CD (S-VCD)
- Create and burn CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc images
- Burn speed and other options can all be set automatically.
How does it work?
First you need to download the software and install it on your computer. Click here to download Ashampoo Burning Studio v6. On the next page we will run through how to use the software.
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When you click on the link above, the window on the left will appear. Click on 'Run' to start. |
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Now another window will appear, again click on 'Run'. |
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Select the default language, which is English. |
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Now start to install the software by clicking on 'Next'. You will then be presented with the usual End User License Agreements, and default installation stuff, just accept them all and leave the computer to do its stuff! |
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One bit of advice, un-tick the 3 boxes on the left of the next screen before you click on 'Next', it's up to you of course, but that's what we would say! |
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Finally, before the software launches for the first time, you have the option to receive updatyes and a newsletter from Ashampoo.
Once this is done, the programme will launch! Now see the next page to see how to use the programme. |