Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.5 [Old Version]

by Roxio

Product Features

• Includes PhotoSuite 7, VideoWave 7, Napster 2.0, and Easy CD & DVD Creator
• Organize with Media Manager; password-protect and encrypt private data
• Transform still photos with stunning pan and zoom effects
• Take complete control of video with advanced timeline editing tools
• Produce professional-looking VCDs, SVCDs, or DVDs

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007XPV22
• Item model number: 220100
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 1, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,491 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #8 in Software > Video & Music > MP3 Software
  • #17 in Software > Video & Music > CD Burning & Labeling > Mastering & Burning
  • #18 in Software > Video & Music > Digital Video > Compositing & Effects

Product Description

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New Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.5 is a full-featured, easy-to-use Digital Media Suite that makes it easy to burn and copy CDs and DVDs and create professional-looking style movies. It now includes award-winning Backup MyPC Deluxe, a complete backup and disaster recovery application, Internet audio capture, DivX-to-DVD Creator, new Sound Editor, improved DVD slideshow, and a host of other enhancements.

High Quality Copies Made Faster and Easier

Back up your DVDs* and movies with one click Improved DVD-9 to DVD-5 compression technology copies* DVD-Video discs up to 30% faster Copy and burn disc image files including popular .iso and .bin/.cue formats Includes RAW copy mode--for exact copies of discs including hidden or out-of-spec sectors *Does not copy encrypted or copy-protected discs
	Enjoy a new streamlined, intuitive interface

Digital Music at Your Command

• Capture your favorite Internet music or radio shows for your MP3 player library
• Access over 1 million songs online with Napster
• Easily convert your favorite LPs and cassettes to CD with LP and Tape Assistant
• Remove pops, clicks and hiss for a perfect listening experience

Create Perfect Mixes

Rip audio CDs to MP3, WMA, OGG, and WAV files Use Sound Editor to create original mixes with smart track splitting and burn directly to an audio CD Rip and edit audio CD tracks and apply custom sound effects Automatically import artist, album and song information with CDDB Online Disc Recognition and CD Text support Normalize the volume of multiple tracks taken from different sources before burning Copy your favorite music tracks and create greatest hits mixes Easily adjust the volume, fade-in/fade-out and stereo pan of any point in a track with envelope control Fit more audio--now supports overburn on 90 and 99 minute CDs with supported drives Greater Editing Controls: With multilevel undo and redo, the ability to apply sound effects to an entire track or just a portion, pitch controls, repeat mix capabilities and a multilayer editor, Sound Editor provides you with the necessary control to create truly exciting audio mixes

Powerful, simple-to-use controls make capturing and sharing music easier than ever

Make Unforgettable Gifts

• Create personalized disc labels, DVD case inserts, and booklets while you burn
• Choose from dozens of professionally-designed templates or create your own with full-featured text editing and design tools
• Import your photos from hard drive, scanner or digital camera
• Fit the text precisely within the available label space with smart text positioning
• Print labels directly on disc with supported printers and burners

Preserve and Protect Your Memories
With PhotoSuite 7 Platinum and VideoWave 7 Professional, you can make your pictures perfect and your movies the envy of your family and friends.

Start by transferring photos or video to your PC--plug in your digital camera, camcorder or scanner and begin capturing. Easily find the files your want with the powerful search engine Dynamically browse files by date in Calendar view Assign tags to categorize your photos by people, places, or events
	Tools for quickly and easily taking charge of your photos

Make Your Pictures Perfect

• Tweak your images to perfection with instant red-eye removal, crop, rotate, and straighten tools
• Let advanced PhotoDoctor automatically fix exposure, sharpness and saturation
• Experiment with professional tools like masking, clone, smart edge detection and effects brushes
• Combine your photos with professionally designed templates to create cards, calendars, and other projects
• Create impressive photo collages with advanced control over layers, edge fading, and transparency

New Superior Tools for All Your Data Needs

• CD and DVD diagnostic tools include CD/DVD Speed Test, CD/DVD Read Error Test, and DVD PI/PIF/Jitter Test
• Mount disc images to create virtual disc drives--preserve the original discs, avoid disc swapping and extend laptop battery life
• Emulate up to 23 drives and load disc image files simultaneously

Bulletproof Data Safety

• Password-protect and secure your data with 128-bit encryption
• Drag and drop files to CD and DVD as you would to a giant floppy
• Automatically span large files across multiple discs
• Burn audio and data discs, mixed mode and enhanced CDs
• Create bootable CDs and DVDs to recover your system in case of a crash
• Maximize the available disc space with multisession CDs and DVDs
• Validate source files before burning and verify file system after recording

Edit Video the Way You Want It

• Edit like a pro with advanced Timeline editing, which supports up to 14 tracks and in-place editing
• Control the timing of background audio, narration, video clips, titles, and special effects in your production
• Let CineMagic automatically edit a movie for you, complete with transitions, special effects and background audio in 3 steps
• Easily substitute backgrounds in your video with powerful Chroma Key effects
• Preview and capture only the scenes you want from a DV camcorder with SmartScan
• Select from over 300 Hollywood-style transitions, 2D or 3D effects and overlays

Professional DVD Tools for Everyone
Bring Hollywood home and become your own digital producer. Create professional-quality DVD movies or slideshows with animated menus and a Dolby Digital soundtrack. Novices and experts alike can impress friends and family with easy and powerful DVD authoring--in no time at all.

Author DVDs like a Pro

• Produce professional-quality DVDs with animated menus, buttons, chapters and background themes
• Move & resize menu buttons, add titles and personalize text credits
• Plug & Burn automatically captures the entire contents of your video camera to DVD--in just two clicks
• Edit existing DVD* discs (+VR): append new or remove unwanted content
• MS-DVR Support--Edit and create DVDs from Media Center PC TV Recordings
• Extract MPEG-2 video files directly from VIDEO_TS VOB files
• Burn to DVD, Video CD, Super Video CD or DVD on CD

Copy DVDs* and Movies

• Easily make high quality copies of your DVD movies--now up to 30% faster
• Compress an entire 9 GB dual-layer DVD disc to a standard 4.7 GB DVD disc
• Back up the full disc with all video, menus, and extras with one click
• Maximize video quality and available disc space by extracting just the main movie, language, and audio format
• Download DivX or XviD movies and create DVDs to watch in your living room

* Does not copy encrypted or copy-protected DVDs

Create DVD Slideshows

• Combine photos, music, and professional transitions into a stunning slideshow
• Bring your photos to life and create slideshows with dramatic pan and zoom motion effects
• Automatically adjust the duration of your slides to perfectly fit the length of the music

Play Hollywood DVDs

• CinePlayer plays Hollywood DVD movies, VCDs, and games on your PC
• Supports Dolby Digital (AC-3), 5.1 channel Dolby Digital pass-through, LPCM, MPEG-1 Layer 2 and MPEG-2 2-channel audio formats

Keep it Safe with BackUp MyPC Deluxe
Your computer is at risk from system crashes, viruses, file corruption, and a host of other disasters. BackUp MyPC is the award-winning way to preserve, protect, and back up your critical data and digital media files quickly and easily. Designed for the non-expert, in the event of a computer failure, it will reliably recover your valuable data, applications, photos, video, music, e-mail, even your operating system.

Product Description

Easy Media Creator 7.5 10th Anniversary Edition makes designing and burning your own Hollywood-style movies or photo slideshows a snap! Your music is where, when, and how you want it, and your video and photos never looked this good. Add to that a complete, award-winning backup application and you can feel confident that all your projects are safe. Produce professional-looking VCDs, SVCDs, or DVDs as quickly as clicking a mouse button and typing a few commands. MyDVD Slideshow is perfect for turning homemade photos and images into attarctive, professional video Take complete control of video with advanced timeline editing tools Print out homemade labels

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

133 of 141 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pay $100 to downgrade your music mixing program?!, April 30, 2005

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L. Snow (Iowa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.5 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I have been using the EZCD, now Roxio line of media software to make music mixes for years, since version 2.0. With heavy competition from numerous new music players, I stuck with Roxio and updated from version 6.0 to 7.5, eager to check out and use the promised benefits. Instead I found that 7.5 is actually a major DOWNGRADE of music mixing features and functionality. It's hard to believe, but true. Here are some of the downgrades:
1. 7.5 doesn't list and sort songs by artist or title at all! You have to go by the Windows file name!
2. 7.5 worsens the crossfading control feature, the major benefit of this program over other music mixing programs. 7.5 can only apply crossfade or gap settings by whole seconds, rather than fractions as in 6.0, so you can't be as precise with the segues. Also, 7.5 doesn't allow control over the portion of the track you listen to when composing the crossfade, as 6.0 did.
3. 7.5 eliminates the "Audio Central" component of the 6.0 version and uses the old Creator Classic view, with less features.
4. 7.5 won't recognize your mixes (playlists) from 6.0.
5. 7.5 won't recognize and list your song titles and artist names from 6.0.
6. 7.5 has a terrible volume normalizing program that creates big quick blasts of higher or lower volume before finding the normalized level. This feature is applied only when burning, not when mixing, so you can't audition it until it's too late. Volume normalizing is just useless.
7. With 6.0, you could place as many tracks as you wanted into a playlist, then edit down from that to create a mix that would fit on a CD. With 7.5 you are limited to about 100 minutes of material to draw from.

Roxio actually lies about these features in their online "comparison" charts, stating that features which are not functional on 6.0 are present on 7.5, when in fact the opposite is true. This is deceptive advertising.

I have written to Roxio to get help on any or all of this, and I have received no response whatsoever.

If you've been using Roxio to make music mixes, it's time to look elsewhere. If you haven't been, don't start now.

72 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What a piece of trash. Waste of money & time - BEWARE!, May 12, 2005

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John S. Hagan "Tired of cheap/crappy non-USA ... (Central Missouri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.5 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I'm tired of waiting for software that actually works! OK, if I could rate this a negative number I would. Make sure and back up your configuration and drivers before installing this piece of trash. It has destroyed the drivers on both of my computers (laptop and home). Neither computer will create a CD. It doesn't convert music types (and there is downloadable shareware that does this). Lots of fancy screens, lots of fancy words in their product description. Roxio has joined the ranks of so many other PC software creators (marketing, marketing, marketing). DO NOT BUY THIS SOFTWARE. Matter of fact, send me the $100, you'll be better off!!!!!

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What a bunch of junk! What a runaround from Roxio tech support!, June 28, 2005

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Jeffrey A. Simon - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.5 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I would give less product negative stars if I could.

I upgraded from Easy CD Creator 5.1 to Easy Media Creator 7.5 with the hope of curing some minor bugs. What a mistake!

The main use I have at present is the Drag-to-Disk function. This function DOES NOT WORK. In my frustration, I have searched the web and found many reports of the same problem. The Drag-to-Disk software continually reports that a recorable media is read-only.

I have tried several different approaches to recording DVDs with this software but nothing works. I am being forced to uninstall this product and reinstall the old 5.1 product. My only other alternative at this point is to hope that a patch is released soon.

No wonder the price is dropping so fast!

To top if off, the Roxio web site is an exercise in futility. There is a drill-down that even lists the "read-only message" problem, but from that point, it just takes you back to the beginning.

I had hoped to try the main other features of this product, but this level of frustration and annoyance is very discouraging and feel like I have been ripped off and have no where left to turn.

I am afraid a once great software product is taking the path of so many other retail products, of getting to a certain level and then self-destructing.

You may find that the rest of this product suite works for you, but BEWARE if you are expecting to ues the Drag-to-Disk feature. In that case, DO NO BUY THIS PRODUCT!