Opens the CD Copy dialog. Without the need of a project file, it provides the ability to copy a CD's content to another disc. Alternatively, you can choose only to create an image of the source CD which can be burned anytime. There is also an option to clone the CD instead of normal copying, which should be preferred when copying CDs with defective sectors or Video CDs.

Opens the DVD Copy dialog. Without the need of a project file, it provides the ability to copy a DVD's content to another disc. Alternatively, you can choose only to create an image of the source DVD which can be burned anytime. Video transcoding within the DVD Copy dialog is not yet supported, so the destination disc has to be large enough to contain all of the source disc's (video) data in its original form.

Opens the Erase CD-RW dialog. With its help you can clear the contents of a CD-RW, or part of it.

Opens the DVD Formatting dialog. With its help you can format a DVD-R(W) or DVD+R(W), which causes the disc's contents to be deleted. K3b gives the choice between the "Overwrite" and "Incremental" writing modes.

Burns a previously created CD image. The Burn CD Image dialog asks to select an *.iso, *.cue or *.toc file as data source that you can instantly burn by pressing the Start button. (Nero *.nrg files are currently not supported, so you have to make use of other tools like Nrg2Iso.)

Burns a previously created DVD image. The Burn Iso9660 Image dialog asks to select an *.iso file as data source that you can instantly burn by pressing the Start button.

A DVD video that has already been ripped can be encoded with a little help from the Encoding Video dialog. This dialog box normally opens after ripping the DVD from within the Contents View, but can also be used standalone. It contains information about the ripped DVD video, encoding options and even video resizing and cropping abilities.

Shows information about the inserted disk. This information will be displayed in the Contents View and covers disk properties like type, size and track length of the CD or DVD in your drive.