New Authoring Features

Advanced Menu Authoring

• Menu Templates – Get more creativity with a new set of great-looking templates and eye-catching content:  Millions of combinations possible with supplied backgrounds, buttons and layouts.
• Motion Overlays are animated buttons, text and objects that give a great sense of motion to your menus.
• Distort Menu Objects – rotate, stretch and angle menu motion buttons to fit into frames or other background elements for a truly personal touch.

Better Photo Slideshows

• Customizable Pan & Zoom – when creating slideshows, precisely control paths and zoom ratios to highlight picture details.

New Data and Music Burning Features

Data

• Secure data – burn password-protected discs with your sensitive data
• Burn data to both HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc
• Password-protect your discs - secure your videos, photos, documents, and any other data from unauthorized access.

Music

• CD Extra – add data files, pics or documents to your audio CDs.

Extra

• LightScribe labels™ – with appropriate burners and discs, you can burn a title or text directly on CDs or DVDs. 
• DVD Copy 5 – simple, easy to use … Silver version now includes: 
• Get video from anywhere
• Shrink dual-layer DVDs on to one single-layer disc
• Burn any video format to disc.
• WinDVD® 8 Player – Silver version now included, for smooth, crisp playback of all your standard-definition video files and discs.

Advanced Menu Authoring

Customizable Pan & Zoom

Password-protect your discs

Record Straight to DVD

DVD Copy 5 + WinDVD 8 Player