Roxio Easy Media Creator For Dummies [Paperback]

Greg Harvey (Author)

Book Description

Series: For Dummies (Computers) | Publication Date: June 25, 2004

Want to preserve those Super 8 movies of Grandpa with his Studebaker or you in your prized Lone Ranger get -up? Want to create a CD of the newest hits from Napster or old 45s? Want to take videos or photos from Christmases past and turn them into Christmas presents? It’s Roxio Easy Media Creator for Dummies to the rescue!

With Roxio’s digital media toolbox, you can capture video, pictures, and sound, edit photos, store data files, create custom calendars, and more. You can do everything from burning CDs and DVDs to labeling them. First you get acquainted with Easy Media Creator Home—the hub from which all the applications are launched. Then you create your own flight plan. You don’t have to read each helpful tidbit—each chapter stands on its own, ready for you to dig in and start:

• Backing up and organizing media files for quick retrieval
• Using Photo Suite to fix, edit, and enhance photos and show them off in slideshows, photo collages, calendars, and the like
• Recording and editing digital audio with Easy Media Creator’s Sound Editor
• Enhancing your audio with Alienizer, Enhancer, Equalizer, Maturizer, Robotizer, Room Simulator, and more
• Playing audio backward (if you’re determined to hear the hidden message at last)
• Using the Capture tool to acquire the digital media (audio, photo, and video) you need for DVD projects
• Using DVD Builder to assemble and burn multi-media projects on DVD, combining video clips, still photo images, text, and audio tracks
• Using VideoWave to assemble and edit video projects

Roxio Easy Media Creator For Dummies was written by Greg Harvey, author of Excel 2003 For Dummies, Windows XP for Dummies and numerous other computer books. It helps you take full advantage of all of Roxio’s application programs and tools and discover how to:

• Use Sound Editor to record audio from audio devices connected to your computer, including analog sources such as cassettes and LP records
• Get album titles, artist’s names, and track titles from Gracenote CDDB online
• Use StoryBuilder to turn video clips into finished videos using pre-designed themes and templates
• Add special effects, transitions to bridge scenes, and color panels and text to introduce new scenes or provide credits

Complete with a Help Center & Tutorials link that speeds to you help on a particular topic, Roxio Easy Media Creator For Dummies gives you the tools and puts you at the controls.

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From the Back Cover

Your guide to Roxio’s fully integrated digital media toolbox

Capture video, pictures, and sound, edit photos, store data files, and burn CDs or DVDs

What do you want to do with CDs and DVDs? Share home movies? Create a music library? Preserve your business records? Roxio’s Easy Media Creator can do it all and with this handy guide, so can you! This project-oriented book shows you how to integrate all the tools and techniques of Roxio’s digital media suite to create cool CDs and DVDs.

The Dummies Way

• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Icons and other navigational aids
• Tear-out cheat sheet
• Top ten lists
• A dash of humor and fun

Discover how to:

• Use each digital media application
• Back up your data files
• Create digital photo slide shows
• Edit video productions
• Organize media files with Media Manager™

About the Author

Greg Harvey has authored tons of computer books, the most recent being Excel 2003 For Dummies and Adobe Acrobat 6 PDF For Dummies. He started out training business users on how to use IBM personal computers and their attendant computer software in the rough and tumble days of DOS, WordStar, and Lotus 1-2-3 in the mid-80s of the last century. After working for a number of independent training firms, he went on to teach semester-long courses in spreadsheet and database management software at Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
His love of teaching has translated into an equal love of writing. For Dummies books are, of course, his all-time favorites to write because they enable him to write to his favorite audience, the beginner. They also enable him to use humor (a key element to success in the training room) and, most delightful of all, to express an opinion or two about the subject matter at hand.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies (June 25, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764571311
• ISBN-13: 978-0764571312
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #552,751 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Greg Harvey has authored tons of computer books, the most recent being Excel Timesaving Techniques For Dummies and Roxio Easy Media Creator For Dummies, and the most popular being Excel 2003 For Dummies and Excel 2003 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies. He started out training business users on how to use IBM personal computers and their attendant computer software in the rough and tumble days of DOS, WordStar, and Lotus 1-2-3 in the mid-80s of the last century. After working for a number of independent training firms, he went on to teach semester-long courses in spreadsheet and database management software at Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
His love of teaching has translated into an equal love of writing. For Dummies books are, of course, his all-time favorites to write because they enable him to write to his favorite audience, the beginner. They also enable him to use humor (a key element to success in the training room) and, most delightful of all, to express an opinion or two about the subject matter at hand.
Greg received his doctorate degree in Humanities in Philosophy and Religion with a concentration in Asian Studies and Comparative Religion last May. Everyone is glad that Greg was finally able to get out of school before he retired.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great book to go with even greater software, October 1, 2004

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aliciaboo (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roxio Easy Media Creator For Dummies (Paperback)

I bought Creator 7 when I decided to start storing my grandmother's photos on CD and I bought this book on a whim to help me. Now I do alot more with Creator and this book has helped me figure it out. Hopefully it will help more people than me.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Introduction to Media Processing, January 17, 2005

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roxio Easy Media Creator For Dummies (Paperback)

This book starts with three basic assumptions:

First it presumes that you have or can acquire some sort of digital media which may be audio, photos, or video.

Second, it presumes that you have some kind of computer running Windows 2000 or XP, and the capability to record on CD's or better yet DVD's.

Third, there is the presumption that you want to take the digital media you have, alter it, modify it, combine it with other data, and produce some kind of media.

Most of the book is of tutorial format, that is, it leads you through various projects using a step-by-step approach. All of the major components of the Creator package are discussed. And then in the standard Part of Tens section that is common to most For Dummies books, this is turned around just a bit by looking at each of the ten components that make up the package to give you a better starting point when you have a project in mind.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good help., December 24, 2009

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S. Bloyd (Kentucky) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roxio Easy Media Creator For Dummies (Paperback)

As usual I love my "Dummies" books. This book helps you understand the complex program of my Media Creator in terms that I understand. I look for Dummies books for everything to help me know fun shortcuts and facts that the original manufacturer does not include in their instructions. Very helpful.