CyberLink PowerProducer 3 Deluxe Review

Disc Utilities ‘“ Part 2

Now it is time to write the content back to our hard disc. The tool that manages this job is called ‘Save Disc Image”.

Save Disc Image:

The tool appears in the same way as all the other before. It shows a very easy to use and comfortable to handle interface.

All that needs to be done to write the image onto the hard disc is to select the source, select the location where the image should be saved and of course, a name for the image would be fine. The file is saved in CyberLink’s RDF format and we haven’t noticed any problems during the process.

Burn Disc from Image:

This tool, the logical addition to the save disc image tool, prompts up and the only difference we see is a little combo box where we can select the recording speed.

Everything else works in the same way as before. The burning process starts after drive, speed and the image are selected.

Besides this, PowerProducer images limited function, supports writing from a DVD folder and this tool is indeed much more useful than the ability to burn, in CyberLink’s own format.

Burn from DVD Folder:

Compared to the Disc Image tool this little tool is able to burn the disc from each folder on your hard disc, and will create a Video-DVD media file, even if they were created with another application.

There’s not much to add here except to say that the tool worked fine and we saw no problems to report.

Export File:

Export file is the next interesting tool related to DVD-VR discs. By using this tool, we can export single parts of the DVD-VR content (saved as mpeg files) to the hard disc.

The tool is again quite easy to handle, we select the files or chapters which we want to export and hit the start button.

The software now starts to extract the files and saves them on our hard disc. The whole process for this ~3GB disc requires about 7 minutes and no problems were detected.

Finalize/Unfinalize:

This useful feature gives us the Power to finalize a DVD-VR to make it viewable on a standalone player and also to unfinalize a disc to edit it again.

The whole procedure consists only of one step, to click the start button.