# Ashampoo Burning Studio 21 [View HTML page](https://find-your-software.com/ashampoo/burning-studio-21/) > Historical software reference. This page documents an earlier release, not a current product offer. Burn and copy discs and create video menus with Ashampoo Burning Studio 21. ## The all-round solution to burn, back up and process your files Extract audio from music CDs, back up your files instantly and, while you’re at it, create perfect covers for your projects! Write important data to any disc with powerful compression and password protection and say goodbye to data loss. Get ready for the best Burning Studio of all time! ### Ashampoo Burning Studio 21 - Backup files and folders - Backups from mobile devices - Compress and encrypt backups - Create file and folder backups - Reminder feature for backup plans - Smart backup plans for reliable data backups #### What did you do to Burning Studio’s design? Something great! Ashampoo Burning Studio 21 provides tools to burn and copy CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs. Create movies and slideshows, modify existing discs, and prepare video discs with animated menus. ## The simple but feature-rich burning software Many users are astonished when they first pick up Burning Studio 21. Is it really that easy? You bet! Everything is designed around three logical steps: select files, select operation, select target. Need to create a video DVD with an animated menu in just a few clicks? Want to back up your photo collection across multiple discs? With Ashampoo Burning Studio 21, anyone can do that! Though its feature set might seem overwhelming on paper, we’ve taken great care to design quick paths to help you to reach your goals in no time-and without confusion! ### Burn files and folders - BDXL support - M-Disc support - Enhanced blank disc detection - Improved disc burning options - Disc Spanning with safety mode - Create CD, DVD and Blu-ray data discs - Create data discs with autoplay menus - Subsequent finalize CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs - Create CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs with autostart capability - Automatic disc spanning for unlimited storage capacity - Update existing discs and add/remove files and folders - Disc encryption to protect sensitive data against prying eyes - Erase rewritable CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs such as BD-RE and CD-RW discs - Scratch protection for always accessible data even with damaged surfaces - Disc spanning to automatically split huge amounts of data across several discs #### Create your own movies and slideshows with ease With Burning Studio 21, there’s no limit to what you can do! Cut your movies and add intros and outros in just a few clicks. Misaligned videos can now be instantly rotated. Subtitles help you deliver your message and ready-made themes or custom graphics provide the much-coveted polish. 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 this burning program, brilliant results are guaranteed! ## Backups on schedule Do you save your files in the cloud? Why not keep your files at home and burn them to CD, DVD or Blu-ray? The handy backup plans in Burning Studio 21 do the heavy lifting for you. It’s so easy to back up important data locally and the program can even remind you when the next backup is due! Managing backups is equally straightforward with one-click archive recovery and updates. It couldn’t be any easier! And don’t worry if your files don’t fit on a single disc. Our disc spanning technology takes care of that and automatically spreads your archives across multiple volumes, along with compression and password protection for added security! ### Internal program features and functions - Media analysis - Fascinating mosaic covers - Work safer with auto-save - Custom user interface skins - Use your own background image - Burn password-protected discs - Exciting new carousel navigation - Module favorites for instant access - Multi-disc CD player emulator support - File browser supports custom favorites - Improved selection of burning settings - Retrieve cover images based on MP3 tags - New program navigation with home button - Create individual playlists for your car - Extensive sound module for your car radio - New intuitive editor for covers and inlays - Bright, high-contrast user interface theme - Ready-made presets for over 1, 600 car radios - Online cover searching also for unknown tracks - Numerous special cases supported in car radio module - New customizable file browser for improved navigation - Optimized work flow for less clicks and waiting times - 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 #### Relax and listen to music and audiobooks on your car 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 21 puts and end to this nightmare! With now over 1800 presets and profiles for all common car radios, your discs will work the way you expect them to on any device. The program also supports multi-disc CD player emulators and both equalizer functionality and normalization. Song or audiobook, Burning Studio 21 offers the best listening experience for your tracks on the go-and in the correct order! ## Rip music discs and burn audio files Need to extract audio from your music CDs? The clever disc ripping feature in **Ashampoo Burning Studio 21** extracts audio from music 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! ### Ashampoo Burning Studio 21 - Burn movies - Create slideshows - Cut and split movies - Free theme downloads - Create Video CD (VCD) - Rotate videos with ease - Up to 15% faster encoding - Create Super Video CD (VCD) - Create custom menu templates - Create custom slideshow themes - Support for SRT-based subtitles - Create disc menus for Video discs - Add themes and subtitles to movies - Native MPEG-4, H.264 and AAC support - Smart wizards for perfect slideshows - Create video DVD from prepared folder - More than 140 slide transition effects - Sound effects for videos and slideshows - Create video Blu-ray from prepared folder - New modern slideshow and disc menu themes - Probably the easiest video editor ever made - Record live commentary with your slideshows - Convenient sort features for slideshow images - Multi-core support for fast rendering and encoding - Record from any registered Windows recording device - Improved slideshows with superior image optimization - Add motion to slides through free camera movement and zooms - Professional fade in/out effects plus cross-fades for music - Adjust volume and normalize MP3 and WMA files video audio tracks - Faster video encoding through Intel Media with many onboard cards #### The right format for every movie Creating and burning movies with your PC is one of Ashampoo Burning Studio 21’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, securely and in style with Burning Studio 21! ## Recover data from surface-damaged discs-thanks to scratch protection The proven scratch protection technology ensures your data stays safe. Scratches can render disc surfaces unreadable and files irrecoverable. **Ashampoo Burning Studio 21** takes 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 indispensable files and precious memories should a disc ever become scratched. ### Ashampoo Burning Studio 21 - Disc Images - Browse disc images - Easier disc image creation - Create disc images from projects - Improved ISO browser with image previews - Create disc images from CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs - Added support for CUE+MP3, CUE+Flac and CUE+Wav #### The most easy to use video editor on the planet! Ashampoo Burning Studio 21 offers a short path to success for every project. 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! ## The comfortable way to handle ISO or CUE/BIN disc images Working with disk images like ISO, CUE/BIN or our own ASHDISC is commonplace for professionals. Ashampoo Burning Studio 21 provides hassle-free support for all of these formats. Create, copy, burn and browse disk images with ease and enjoy the built-in preview for images. Naturally, creating disk images is fuss-free and anything but time-consuming. ### Ashampoo Burning Studio 21 - Burn Music - Shuffle feature - Create audio CDs - Export track lists - Rip to FLAC and OGG - Custom pause lengths - Supported file format:APE - Support for 96kHz sampling - Supported file format: OPUS - Extract audio from audio discs - 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 - Adjust volume and normalize MP3 and WMA files - Cover artwork auto-retrieval during audio disc ripping - New tailor-made profiles for car radios, cd changers and mobile storage media - Equalize and adjust frequencies for your music files automatically with the integrated equalizer module #### Covers and inlays for every disc Creating covers and inlays has always been a strong point of Burning Studio. The 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. To save time and effort, 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! ## Ashampoo Burning Studio 21 - Advanced Functions - Create bootable disc - Set emulated boot environment - Define file system (ISO/Joliet/UDF) - Create modified copies of CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs - Jump list support for swift access to essential features ### Our multimedia software While Ashampoo Burning Studio 21 is our top-of-the-line burning software, [Ashampoo Movie Studio Pro 3](https://find-your-software.com/ashampoo/movie-studio-pro-3/) is our go-to software for high-quality video editing, with support for Dolby Digital, 4K and lightning fast conversion. For post-processing, we highly recommend [Ashampoo Video Optimizer Pro](https://find-your-software.com/ashampoo/video-optimizer-pro-3/) to stabilize and denoise your existing videos and optimize white balance settings. For all things audio, make sure to take a look at [Ashampoo Music Studio](https://find-your-software.com/ashampoo/music-studio-12/). Whether you need to bring order to your music collection, create a mix tape or convert audio files into various formats, Music Studio is a great choice for you!