14 DAY TRIAL // Any respectable disc burning suite nowadays offers support for ISO image format. Whether we’re talking about burning ISOs or creating them, these options are present. Ashampoo Burning Studio makes no exception in this regard and provides an entire menu just for creating or burning disc images. The three options available in this menu deal with burning a disc from a disc image, creating a disc image from a CD, DVD or Blu-ray media and creating an image from a project.
In the case of Ashampoo, ISO image is not the only format supported, as it also offers ASHDSC, a proprietary format, and CUE/BIN type. No matter which one you choose to work with, the procedures are the same in all three cases. Writing the content of such format to disc requires nothing but pointing the application to the image location. After this is done, the steps you need to go through are exactly the same as in any other disc burning operation.
Turning a disc into one of the supported image formats (ISO, CUE/BIN or ASHDSC) is not much of an effort from your part either. After the scan of the inserted media is complete and the application decides that it can work with it, you’ll have to define a storage path for the resulting file and opt for one of the three image types available.
Disc image formats are listed only if they can store the contents of the inserted disc. For instance, you can’t expect for ISO to be among the choices if the disc you insert is an Audio CD. But you can store all the tracks in BIN/CUE or ASHDSC containers with absolutely no problem. The duration of the entire process is proportional with the read speed of the optical unit employed and the amount of data that needs to be processed.
With this covered, the most difficult part of the job has passed because from this step forward, everything is exactly the same as if you were burning the selected project to disc. So, it is just a simple matter of adding the necessary files, making the necessary adjustments depending on the type of the project (we went for an Audio CD), setting the disc image format you want and its storage location.
Creating disc images with Ashampoo Burning Studio has been designed to be as simple as possible for any sort of user. Each step taken towards the completion of the task is filled with intuitive options to make the entire process as smooth as possible. Two of the three image formats supported are among the most popular, while the third is a proprietary Ashampoo format.
