Now comes the juicy multimedia bits. Nero Multimedia Suite 10 features Nero Vision as the central application for editing videos. Nero Vision 10 retains the old Wizard-based interface for editing videos while improving application in several key areas. Not only have they refreshed the interface, but the application now also has quite powerful multi-track video editing capabilities.

With the emergence of the internet as a medium for showcasing your videos, it is important that a video editing application support it. To that end, Nero supports not only uploading your video projects to internet sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and My Nero, but you can also import videos from such sites to include in your video composition.

Nero Vision’s wizard interface guides you through the different steps involved in editing a video project. First, you need to select the task you need to perform. Much like Nero Burning ROM Express, Nero Vision lists your option in categories. You can create the following types of projects:

• DVD
  • DVD-Video
  • Editable DVD
• AVCHD
  • DVD
  • Hard Drive folder
  • Memory Stick
  • SD Card
• Blu-Ray Video
• CD
  • Video CD
  • Super Video CD
  • miniDVD

Other than these, you can also record video directly to a disc or your hard drive, you can create a movie or slide show, or you can open a saved project or disc image. Nero Vision also includes a few useful Disc tools such as erasing the disc, disc information and finalizing discs.

Importing videos

The first step after that is to import your videos, and here Nero Vision offers a plethora of options, you can import video from many different sources:

• Nearly any type of video file (mpg, mpeg, mpe, m2p, m2v, mod, mp4, divx, m2ts, m2t, mts, ts, tod, trp, vob, avi, asf, wmv, flv, mov, mkv, dvr-ms, dv, dvsd, dat, wtv)
• All kinds of discs VCD / DVD / BluRay
• AVCHD from disc, folder on hard disc, or SD card / MemoryStick
• Importing online videos. Supports Facebook, Flickr, and Nero’s own video hosting service
• Powerpoint presentations can also be imported, and Nero even supports the (relatively) new pptx format

While being able to import so many formats is brilliant, Nero unfortunately does not let you preview what exactly you are importing before you begin the process. With BluRay videos measuring in tens of GBs this means you might end up importing a rather large file only to realize it is not even relevant.

After it is imported you can of course preview it. In fact, you can trim your video clips right here, so you only use the parts of the video you want. You can only choose the starting and ending points of the video from here, or cut the video into multiple parts. Additionally you can also join multiple video clips if they are compatible.  These kinds of edits are almost instantaneous.

If you wish to create chapters, you can do so at this point, by either manually inserting chapters or by scrubbing to the relevant bits of the video and creating a chapter point, or using the automatic chapter creator which will detect significant scene changes and insert a chapter point there.

You can perform much more significant edits using Nero Vision though. If you choose to edit the video, it will open up Nero Vision’s multi-track video editor allowing you to make significant edits to the video before adding it to your disc compilation. If you do edit the videos you import, Nero Vision will not export them just yet, instead it will add the project file for the edited video to your compilation so that it gets rendered with all the other videos. This stands to save you some time, as you won’t have to render and encode the video twice. In fact, since Nero Vision is a full featured video editor, you can even choose to make a video or slideshow instead of importing a ready-made video. If you choose to do so, Nero Vision will launch its video editing interface, but more about video editing later.

Once you have imported and edited all the videos you want to, you can proceed to the next step, which will depend on the kind of project you have created.

Importing Videos

Here you can select the kind of project you wish to create	Imported a few videos. This can be done by using the browse button or simply dragging and dropping clips to this window	Importing videos from the web	Nero Vision is automatically downloading a video from the web
Importig clips from a BluRay disc	Nero Vision can detect the structure of the disc, multiple video angle etc.	Importing the video (it is being copied to the hard drive temporarily)	You can perform automatic chapter detection to make your video easier to navigate. Auto-detected chapter points can be fine-tuned.
You can edit video clips from here if you want		Nero Vision requires you to activate patent licenses for importing content in certain formats. All versions of Nero suites do not include support for all patented formats