Burn Option

Burn option appears each time you are ready to start burning discs by clicking the Burn button. It is very important and is to let you make some settings before disc burning really begins. Here you can choose burning action, write speed, write method, number of copies or even to finalize your disc or not.

When the project status is ready, click Burn button, burn option dialog box will appear as follows:

Action: chooses the burning action to be Write or Simulation

Write: starts the actual physical burning process.
Simulation: starts a test burning process. Your data or burning materials will not actually be burned onto the disc. It only simulates a burning process for testing. If the test burning process shows no error, you can then activate the actual burning.

NOTE: We recommend running a simulation if you are decompressing data before burning, e.g. when burning an audio CD from MP3 files.

Write Option: selects Write Method, Write Speed and Number of Copies for disc burning.

Write Method: three write methods are available: Disc-At-Once, Session-At-Once, Track-At Once.
Disc-At-Once: the whole disc is written in one go. After burning, your disc will be closed, which means no more data will ever be appended onto the closed disc.
Over Burn: while you select Disc-At-Once writing method, Over Burn check box is enabled. Selecting this feature helps to release more space from your disc. You might get 10MB~20MB of space from your disc (Actual volume depends on how much reserved space on your disc).
Session-At-Once: select this one if you want to append more data onto the rewritable disc later. Session-At-Once means to treat the data or audio tracks that you want to burn as a session on the disc. You can always append new sessions onto the rewritable disc till the whole disc is full.
Track-At-Once: a writing data method which is used for multisession CDs. The drive writes all the tracks one after another and does not end the session until it is finished.

NOTE: Audio, video and SVCD should always be burned using Disc-At-Once. We do not recommend using Track-at-Once to burn audio, video and SVCD. While making multisession CDs, do not select Disc-At-Once.

Write Speed: lists all available write speed (maximum speed depends on the speed your drive supports). Select one that suits your need.
Number of Copies: lets you choose how many copies of disc you want to burn. If you have three copies to be burned in total, you'll be prompted each time one copy is finished burning.
Finalize CD (No further writing possible!): this feature is enabled when you choose Session-At-Once and Track-At-Once as the write method. It is to let you decide whether you want to close/finalize the disc after this session/track is burned.