FinalBurner FREE

FinalBurner is a freeware alternative to expensive CD and DVD recorders. It allows users to produce professional data, audio, video disks and ISO images. Many types of media are supported, including CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL.

Pros: The Final Burner is an application that could be handy when dealing with lot of multimedia stuff. Whether creating a back up of a valuable movie DVD, or making a personal collection interesting videos or to create audio CD/ MP3 CDs for your car there may not be anything more that anyone needs. This freeware is a good substitute for many expensive such CD/DVD burner suites.

The package can handle CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL very easily. DVD ISO images can be created easily too. Need to burn a Blue-ray disc, that’s not a problem either. All these features come with a simple and elegant user interface with please color scheme. The interface is easy to use and learn. Most features are accessible via a few mouse clicks. Burning process is controlled by a few main parameters without making the user getting involved in the nitty-gritty of the CD/DVD technology to help making quality discs. Depending on project type whether creating data CD, audio disc or an ISO image there’s only a few mouse click that can get the job done. There’s a progress bar one could monitor.

While CD/DVD formats as above can be handled, the content formats that can be supported are as follows. Audio CD formats that are supported are wav, mp3, ogg, mid wma, aac, mp4, m4a, xm, mod, s3m, it, mtm and mo3. Similarly the video formats supported are AVI, DIVX, XVID, MP4, MPG, WMV, ASF, MOV, FLV, etc. Capture from Webcam, TV tuner, DV, etc. A audio CD ripper helps create MP3 CDs directly from a Audio CD.

Cons: For a freeware this is a well featured package, nothing adverse to report.

Overall a 4 star performer.

FinalBurner is a freeware alternative to expensive CD and DVD burners. This 8-Mb application enables you to create data, audio, DVD disks and burn them onto any type of media, such as CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL. You can also create an ISO image of a disk. FinalBurner combines all the elements of a professional CD recorder, delivered with a convenient user interface that pleases the eye.Final Burner is designed without any extraneous features. It restricts the complex process of CD recording to a few mouse clicks, which is ideal for typical users. Now you can produce high quality output on the fly without any deep knowledge of CD recording technologies. Power users will benefit from the opportunity to be in full control of many settings that affect the burning process and the quality of the result. And, of course, it's free!Depending on the project type (audio, video, etc.), you click on the appropriate tab and open its window, where the project is displayed as a folder tree. Then, using the built-in explorer, you add a file or several files to the project, select the drive, writing speed, and start the burning process. While the recording is in progress, you can view its current status at the bottom of the window. FinalBurner is available for Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003.
Main features:
- Burn Data CD/DVD (CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, etc.)
- Make autorun menu
- Burn Audio CD (Import *.wav;*.mp3;*.ogg;*.mid;*.wma;*.aac;*.mp4;*.m4a;*.xm;*.mod;*.s3m;*.it;*.mtm;*.mo3 audio files.)
- Burn Video DVD (Import AVI, DIVX, XVID, MP4, MPG, WMV, ASF, MOV, FLV, etc. Capture from Webcam, TV tuner, DV, etc. )
- AudioCd Ripper
- 100% freeware - no adware or spyware