Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 9 [OLD VERSION]

by Roxio

Product Features

• Burn up to 50 hours of music, photos, video, and data files onto CDs, DVDs, double-layer DVDs, and Blu-ray discs
• Convert music from LPs, cassettes, and Internet radio into MP3 or WMA formats
• Customize snapshots with photo-editing features, music, and more to create email-ready invites, calendars, and slideshows
• Capture video from HDV camcorders, TiVo, and VHS, and burn the footage to DVD
• Backup precious digital data stored on your PC and restore files to their original location

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000HJQYE0
• Item model number: 227100
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (253 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,162 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

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If you're a digital music, photo, or video junkie, you'll need software that's robust enough to help you edit and manage your files, Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 9 is just the ticket. With Creator 9, you can burn up to 50 hours of music on DVDs with onscreen menus and Dolby Digital sound, organize all of your digital photos, turn your home movies into entertaining DVDs, and back up all your files onto CDs, DVDs, double-layer DVDs, and even Blu-ray discs.

Use DVD Music Assistant to create hours of DVD music. View larger.

Organize and edit your photos with ease. View larger.

The Video Scenes Selector helps you decide what to cut and keep from your home movies. View larger.

Edit waveforms with the Sound Editor. View larger.

Encode video for a variety of portable devices. View larger.

Enhance and Preserve Your Music
In addition to letting you burn up to 50 hours of music on DVDs, Creator 9 lets you automatically add title, artist and genre tags to audio tracks -- even if your music has been captured from LP, tape, or Internet radio. Converting your music from LPs and tapes into MP3 or WMA format takes three easy steps, and you can even erase those annoying "pops" that old analog recordings are (in)famous for. By giving you the tools to adjust the volume, fade-in/fade-out, and stereo pan from any point in a track, Creator 9 gives you what it takes to make great, personalized audio compilations from just about any music source you can access.

Other features include the ability to create unique sound collages with up to eight layers of audio, or automatically burn hundreds of songs across multiple CDs. Roxio has added new music features to Creator 9. Unlike the previous generation, this version can automatically create perfect mixes from your PC music library. It is also equipped with new audio capture functions, including a desktop capture widget that helps capture streaming Internet radio and music instantaneously, a pre-roll feature that captures any audio playing on your PC without missing a beat, and a mute-all system sound feature so you can capture only the sounds you want without annoying dings from IM or new email notifications.

Edit and Manage Digital Photos
Impress friends and family with gifts, cards, and more, all loaded with personalized features, such as a snapshot from a family vacation or a picture of your child's smiling face on a personalized email-ready birthday invitation. Create a gift calendar with travel photos for your favorite traveling companions, or produce cards from dozens of professionally designed templates for almost any occasion. You can even use Photo Assistants to make impressive panoramas and photo collages with easy-to-set layers, edge fading, and transparency effects. With Roxio, photo editing is simple and easy. Use Creator 9 to crop, rotate, correct brightness and remove red-eye with just one click.

Capture and Manipulate Digital Video
With the newest version of Roxio Easy Media Creator you can capture analog or digital video effortlessly with auto-stop for unattended capture and more extensive capture card support. You can snag HD video from the latest HDV camcorders, and preview and keep only the desired scenes with SmartScan and auto-scene detection. And with Plug and Burn, Creator 9 automatically records all the content off your video camera or VHS tape, straight to DVD -- video capture just doesn't get much easier.

Edit your home movies and add touches that make them unique. View larger.

Instant Hollywood effects from CineMagic is one of the most impressive video upgrades for the Creator 9. With this feature you can easily filter and select those perfect scenes that must be in your movie. Personalize your movie with new, professionally designed themes that will fit almost any occasion. And you can even create a feature-film look with high-quality intros that will dazzle audiences. If TiVo is your thing, not only does Roxio let you burn your TiVo-recorded shows directly to DVD, you can also remove commercials and unwanted video segments for seamless entertainment. Another new function -- Video Doctor -- auto-corrects video color, contrast and brightness, and allows you to make manual adjustments to improve video recorded under poor conditions.

Roxio allows you to take control of your production with advanced 32-track timeline tools and the creative freedom to edit virtually everything. And you can even add professional transitions, effects, titles, navigation menus, and Dolby Digital Sound to regular or widescreen (16:9) productions.

Burn, Backup and Copy
There's nothing more upsetting that losing all that precious digital data stored on your PC. With Creator 9 you can perform full, partial or incremental backups on demand, or schedule them to be done automatically while you're away. Done effectively, a PC backup can recover almost all of your data after a system crash or drive failure, and Roxio even helps restore the files to their original location. Burning with Roxio is fast, and with the newest version of Easy Media Creator you can save up to 50 GB of data on a single Blu-ray disc. Burn audio and data discs, mixed mode, and enhanced CDs, or create bootable discs to recover your system -- the possibilities are virtually endless.

You can also use Creator 9 to copy your movies to iPod, PSP, mobile phone or other portable video players. Plus, you can easily copy video CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, make high-quality copies of your DVD movies, copy to double layer discs, convert DivX and WMV files into standard DVDs, and more. And once you have finished burning a disc, you can put your final stamp of individuality on the physical disc with custom-designed labels. Creator 9 can print labels directly onto the disc with supported LightScribe and Labelflash drives and media, or you can create personalized disc labels, case inserts and booklets.

Product Description

Easy Media Creator Suite 9

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect fit for someone like me, February 19, 2007

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LyleM (Washington) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 9 [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

Before buying I downloaded some demos and liked the roxio program. Here's why.

I'm just okay at troubleshooting pcs so I feel that this program was made for someone like me. I don't want to degenerate other programs cause I don't know them so well. But I found them to be very technical and I didn't understand all the terms. Roxio is easy to understand and I could do things very quickly. I will admit that my husband takes care of the technical parts like installation and the XP fixes. I can't say anything about those things but the program has worked without trouble for me.

I wanted to learn how to fix photos and make slide shows, especially since we have a big family reunion coming up. I'm not doing special effects but I am cropping and fixing a lot of the red eyes. I also have some 5x7 and 4x 6 photos. I wanted to put them all in the same size and there is a menu item that will change a lot of photos at once. I didn't have to go to each photo and make the size change. The slide shows are incredibly easy to make. Instead of one long show I've opted to make several, categorized by decade. That way I could add different music to each show. I also like the way the program pans and scans. You can really see the photo instead of it just whizzing by.

Of course I need copies to give to everyone. I used the disc copy to make several discs. Many of the older people don't use computers much but they all have dvd players. The program makes such dvds. My husband said that the slide show is really a video so I can send it to my ipod. I plugged in the ipod and chose the video file. It did move to the ipod and I didn't have to do much. And since we will be making videos of the reunion, I will start learning how to use the video editing programs.

49 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful Upgrade, October 14, 2006

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B. Fuhs - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 9 [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

I have been reading reviews and was hesitant to buy this product.

I had only patched my Roxio 7.0 product to date and not upgraded to the Easy Media Creator 8.0 when it came out.

I can not address a download copy, but I bought the boxed CD version from Amazon and loaded it. I did choose to remove Easy Media Creator 7.0 at the time of the load, to try and avoid any conflicts that leaving it on this computer might create. There was a problem after the load with my Computer not recognizing DAO.msi and that is probably related to the ATI card and software I am using for video. There is a very helpful fix for this problem at the roxio support forums which involved unregistering and registering DAO.msi.

Having said all that, this has otherwise been a great product. I am thrilled that I took the time to upgrade/buy this product. It solves many of the previous problems and offers numerous new features that are worth the cost. After installation I have not had problems. Several comments were made about videowave, I have not had those problems, and I think the rendering is better and faster then previous products. I have used Nero which also a good product. I find this interface much more intuitive and usable.

As an aside, I have never been happy with their support, but Roxios user forums have been very helpful, and to be honest I did not call them for support on this issue, so I can not tell you if that has changed.

I think this is worth the price and I am glad I took the plunge. If it had loaded without a hitch I would have given it 5 stars, since it does everything I was hoping it would do.

175 of 205 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars iLife for PC!!!, September 18, 2006

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Craig Michaels (San Carlos, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 9 [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

I've been using this software since something like version 4 when it was just called Easy Creator and it just gets better and better. It's now the closest thing a PC user would want in something like Apple's iLife, but it does way more. You got programs for working with your photos and music and video, and they all work together, so you can put your pictures or vacation video on DVDs. I'm no expert at this stuff but the DVDs I've made have impressed my wife and the grandparents, so I'm happy.

I'm a big fan of the audio programs and am part way through converting a bunch of my old LPs so I can finally get them onto my iPod. There's this wizard thing that walks you through the whole process - from setting up your phono, to bringing in the music, to fixing the audio up and then putting it onto the hard drive. When your done you can bang them onto audio CDs to listen in your car or on a DVD or onto your iPod. Now my AC/DC can rock again.

The previous version seemed to get bogged down sometimes when I was working in video stuff, but eventually a patch came out that seemed to fix things. I have no doubt that if there's any problems with this one, they'll be resolved.

You definitely can't beat this product for the amount of things it does - you'll never run out of uses for it. You may not feel like you have the need for all the uses today, but like me I'm sure you'll discover that you get more out of it as time goes on and you get more into digital photos or video. I've found that the user forums are a great way to learn about new features and to talk to other ordinary users like myself. Plus, it comes with a 200 page user guide - which I think it great. I can't remember the last time I got software with a printed manual!

Sure you could get other products that do similar things - but none of them do as much or as well in my opinion. Plus, you'll end up spending three or four times what this product costs by buying the pieces individually.

Don't get bogged down by the trolls on these reviews - this product has been around for a long time and they've got a good track record.
I've recommended it to a half dozen friends and family - so I'm confident when I recommend it to YOU!