Ashampoo Burning Studio Free (ABS) is an all-in-one application that includes everything you need to burn CD, DVD and Blue-ray optical media on your home PC. Ashampoo Burning Studio surpasses the competition with its rich variety of tools for burning information, backup, and creating slideshows and movies from photos. Envelopes and covers are very convenient to print with the program because of the clever organization of the menus.
So, what is remarkable about Ashampoo Burning Studio:
- Recording a video stream contained in any video file;
- It is easy to add additional files;
- While copying discs, you can create modified instances of discs capable of giving out boot options (so called bootable discs) on system startup;
- mp3 files can be converted as easily and conveniently as WAV and WMA;
- Ability to save files that make up a project for reuse during the next burning sessions;
- Video files in Apple QuickTime format can now be written to discs;
- Management of the size of archives, recovery of individual files;
- Bootable disks can be created based on the initial boot area, selectable file system settings;
- Creation of audio CDs based on popular file formats, such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV, WMA;
- Multi-disc backup and recovery of files on CD/DVD/Blu-ray (compression, password protection);
- Multimedia content is quickly destroyed and just as quickly overwritten;
- Disk images that are larger than 2GB are placed on FAT32 file systems without any problems;
- If malfunctions occur, troubleshooting is simplified due to the presence of an interactive assistant to help solve media and hardware problems;
- Multi-session recording has built-in support, you can record more than 1700 sessions;
- You can create vivid and spectacular slideshows from the pictures.
The only drawback of the program can be called the lack of integration with Windows Explorer, as it would be convenient to burn directly from Explorer with a few mouse clicks.
All in all, ABS can be characterized very positively, because it's an easy-to-use set of great tools which supports built-in players, Blue-ray discs and includes a built-in menu and cover editor.
