# Ashampoo Burning Studio 20

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Burn data, music, and video to optical discs with Ashampoo Burning Studio 20.

## A classic among burning programs brand new!

Get the best program for your disc recorder! The new Ashampoo Burning Studio 20 is the easy and comfortable solution to burn your data to CD, DVD and Blu-ray, copy discs or use extensive multimedia capabilities to create your own slide shows and video discs with animated menus. Rip audio CDs fully automatically, back up your files in a flash and design and print individual covers for your projects in the process! Safeguard your files with scratch protection against data loss and use encryption and password protection to maximum security. Experience the best Burning Studio ever!

### A master plan for your backups

Burn data, music, and video to optical discs with Ashampoo Burning Studio 20. Create disc projects and copy CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs using the included burning tools.

#### Ashampoo Burning Studio 20 key benefits

- Smart backup plans for reliable data backups
- Reminder feature for backup plans
- New intuitive editor for covers and inlays
- Multi-disc CD player emulator support
- Ready-made presets for over 1, 600 car radios
- Bright, high-contrast user interface theme
- Easier disc image creation
- Improved disc burning options
- Numerous special cases supported in car radio module
- Optimized work flow for less clicks and waiting times
- Automatic disc spanning for unlimited storage capacity
- Support for Compact Flash (CF) cards and microdrives

## Superior covers and inlays

Creating covers and inlays has always been a strong point of Burning Studio. In version 20, we’ve completely redesigned and reworked this module! The new intuitive start menu sets you off in the right direction and has you select your favorite images right away. After that, it’s step-by-step to the finished cover. The import feature helps you analyze your disc and will automatically download the required metadata from the internet and create a suitable track list for you, if needed. Whether you need to quickly whip out a cover or design your own from the ground up, you won’t be disappointed!

### Yes, disc burning can be that simple!

Many first-time users are stunned when they use Burning Studio for the first time. It’s that easy? Yes, it’s all centered around three steps. Select your files, select the processing method and select the target. Need an animated menu for your video DVD? It takes just a few clicks. Want to backup your photo collection across multiple discs? With Ashampoo Burning Studio 20, anyone can do it!

#### Bring your music and audiobooks to your radio

When you’re burning discs for your car radio picking the right format is crucial or you’ll lose the song order or end up with a non-playable disc. The new Burning Studio 20 has got you covered! With over 1600 presets and profiles for all common car radios, almost twice as many as version 19 , your discs will work the way you expect them to on any device. The program now also supports multi-disc CD player emulators and both equalizer functionality and normalization. Song or audiobook, Burning Studio 20 offers the best listening experience on the go!

## Design and create your own movies and slideshows

With Burning Studio 20, there’s no limit to what you can do! Cut your movies, add intros and outros or insert subtitles or ready-made themes for professional results. Wow your friends and family with stunning slideshows with background music and turn your precious memories into a visual masterpiece. Design individual covers for your audio CDs and use the fascinating mosaic feature or the many templates. Family celebration, job event or vacation, with Ashampoo Burning Studio 20, brilliant results are guaranteed!

### The fast and comfortable route to success

The new Ashampoo Burning Studio 20 respects your work flow. Instead of loads of nested menus that require dozens of clicks, Burning Studio provides instantly accessible solutions. Need great results fast with little need for customization? Ashampoo Burning Studio 20 is the program for you. Clever auto-features and carefully selected presets take the work off your shoulder and meticulously designed visuals avoid unnecessary eye strain. With both a dark and high-contrast light theme, maximum readability is guaranteed for everyone!

#### Rip music discs and burn audio files

The clever disc ripping feature in Ashampoo Burning Studio 20 extracts audio from disc in a matter of minutes! Artist and genre are automatically recognized, there’s no need for manual input. Turn audio CDs into high-quality audio files with meaningful file names and select from a variety of different formats! Naturally, you can then turn your files into music discs, along with equalizer and volume adjustments for an even better sound experience, and add your own cover designs. Sounds good? It is!

## Maximum safety with scratch protection

The proven scratch protection technology ensures your data stays safe. Scratches can render disc surfaces unreadable and files irrecoverable. Ashampoo Burning Studio 20 take the terror out of scratches by spreading multiple copies of your data across the disc along with an emergency recovery tool! This way, you can still recover your precious files and memories should a disc ever become scratched.

### The most easy to use video editor on the market

When time is of the essence, it takes just a few clicks to combine images and videos with suitable music to create movies. No need for long-winded menu navigation and no additional manual work required. If needed, you can manually adjust image transitions and display durations for that extra bit of individuality - otherwise it’s one more click and you’re done!

#### Safe multi-purpose burning

Burning Studio 20 offers versatility even with simple tasks like burning data to CD, DVD or Blu-ray. Disc spanning spreads data across multiple discs automatically, auto-play discs support individual designs and menus while encrypted discs come with password protection for maximum security. Copying discs is hassle-free and supports on-the-fly modifications. The new scratch protection ensures your valuable data stays readable even with damaged disc surfaces and the streamlined disc burning dialog gives you great results faster!

## The right format for every movie

Creating and burning movies is one of Ashampoo Burning Studio 20’s strong suits. To make movies compatible with retail players, they have to be converted into a suitable format. Burning Studio has got you covered with MPEG4, H.264 and AAC along with sound formats like MP3, WMA, OGG and more. Burn everything from simple cellphone recordings to ambitious amateur movies in style with Burning Studio 20!

### Ashampoo Burning Studio 20 key features

#### Burn files and folders

- BDXL support
- M-Disc support
- Enhanced blank disc detection
- Disc Spanning with safety mode
- Create data discs with autoplay menus
- **New** Improved disc burning options
- Create CD, DVD and Blu-ray data discs
- Subsequent finalize CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs
- Create CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs with autostart capability
- Update existing discs and add/remove files and folders
- **New** Automatic disc spanning for unlimited storage capacity
- Disc encryption to protect sensitive data against prying eyes
- Scratch protection for always accessible data even with damaged surfaces
- Disc spanning to automatically split huge amounts of data across several discs
- Erase rewritable CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs such as BD-RE and CD-RW discs

## Internal program features and functions

- **New** Burn password-protected discs
- **New** Multi-disc CD player emulator support
- **New** Bright, high-contrast user interface theme
- **New** New intuitive editor for covers and inlays
- **New** Ready-made presets for over 1, 600 car radios
- **New** Optimized work flow for less clicks and waiting times
- **New** Numerous special cases supported in car radio module
- New customizable file browser for improved navigation
- Media analysis
- Work safer with auto-save
- Fascinating mosaic covers
- Custom user interface skins
- Use your own background image
- File browser supports custom favorites
- Improved selection of burning settings
- Retrieve cover images based on MP3 tags
- Extensive sound module for your car radio
- Online cover searching also for unknown tracks
- Import Windows Media Player and iTunes playlists easily
- Cover Studio: design and print booklets, cases and labels
- Access external online sources such as Facebook and Picasa
- New modern themes and templates for covers, slideshows and menus
- Ingenious history view for the last 20 projects with recovery feature
- For the perfect MP3 stick: Always the right format and song order, automatically!
- Use compact mode to run long burning operations in the background and still receive status notifications
- Create individual playlists for your car

### Burn movies

- Create slideshows
- Cut and split movies
- Free theme downloads
- Create Video CD (VCD)
- Up to 15% faster encoding
- Create custom menu templates
- Create custom slideshow themes
- Support for SRT-based subtitles
- Create Super Video CD (VCD)
- Smart wizards for perfect slideshows
- Create video DVD from prepared folder
- Create disc menus for Video discs
- Add themes and subtitles to movies
- Sound effects for videos and slideshows
- Create video Blu-ray from prepared folder
- Native MPEG-4, H.264 and AAC support
- More than 140 slide transition effects
- Record live commentary with your slideshows
- Convenient sort features for slideshow images
- New modern slideshow and disc menu themes
- Record from any registered Windows recording device
- Multi-core support for fast rendering and encoding
- Professional fade in/out effects plus cross-fades for music
- Add motion to slides through free camera movement and zooms
- Adjust volume and normalize MP3 and WMA files video audio tracks
- Faster video encoding through Intel Media with many onboard cards
- Probably the easiest video editor ever made

#### Disc images

- **New** Easier disc image creation
- Browse disc images
- **Improved** ISO browser with image previews
- Create disc images from projects
- **Improved** Create disc images from CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs
- Added support for CUE+MP3, CUE+Flac and CUE+Wav

## Burn music

- Shuffle feature
- Create audio CDs
- Export track lists
- Custom pause lengths
- Supported file format: APE
- Supported file format: OPUS
- Rip to FLAC and OGG
- Support for 96kHz sampling
- Include meta data in audio conversion
- Create MP3 and WMA CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs
- Create and burn audio CDs from playlists
- Create playlists during audio disc ripping
- Cover artwork auto-retrieval during audio disc ripping
- Equalize and adjust frequencies for your music files automatically with the integrated equalizer module
- Adjust volume and normalize MP3 and WMA files
- Extract audio from audio discs

### Backup files and folders

- **New** Reminder feature for backup plans
- **New** Smart backup plans for reliable data backups
- Backups from mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets (e.g. iPod, iPhone, iPad and Android devices) at the click of a button
- Compress and encrypt backups
- Create file and folder backups

#### Advanced functions

- **Improved** Create modified copies of CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs
- Jump list support for swift access to essential features
- Create bootable disc
- Set emulated boot environment
- Define file system (ISO/Joliet/UDF)