Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 10 (OLD VERSION)

by Roxio

Product Features

• Easily produce impressive multi-media projects that combine photos, video and music; share and enjoy on CD, DVD, the web or on popular portable players and cell phones
• Includes step-by-step video tutorials that lead users through the process of completing a wide range of personal digital-media projects
• Backup non-encrypted DVD-Videos or convert video files into preferred formats for use on an iPod, PSP, Windows Media portable device or mobile phone
• Powerful 32 track video editor with HD support and studio quality tools, effects, and transitions; edit and enhance photos, creating delightful photo projects and gifts
• New features and capabilities that are specifically designed to naturally extend the digital-media functionality of Vista

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: B000UJUJ7U
• Item model number: 235600
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (211 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,016 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #24 in Software > Video & Music > DVD Viewing & Authoring
  • #74 in Software > Video & Music > Digital Video

Product Description

Amazon.com

The new Roxio Easy Media Creator 10 puts everything you need to express yourself digitally at your fingertips. Transform raw vision into sophisticated movies, stunning photo slideshows. Even advanced creative work is a snap, like timeline video editing or photo touchups and object cloning. Now you can auto-fix camera phone photos. Post video to YouTube with one click. Encode HD video faster. Burn or copy the latest HD DVD or Blue-ray discs. Share and enjoy your creations at home, on-the-go or on the web. It's the best software for all your digital media needs. Fully certified for Windows Vista and supports Windows XP too!

Roxio Central component provides a link to the many digital media components, applications and utilities offered in Easy Media Creator 10.

Media Manager includes dozens of tools to help you keep track of and work with your photos, videos and music.

Edit just about any video type.

Imagine great things. Now create them.

Suite and complete.
Creator 10 puts everything you need to express yourself digitally at your fingertips. Capture, organize, edit, enhance, protect, share and enjoy your photos, video and music as only you can.

Unrivaled, easy control.
Transform raw vision into sophisticated movies, stunning photos and more with Creator 10. Even advanced creative work is a snap, like timeline video editing or photo touch-up and object cloning.

Results that rock!
Imagine great things. Then create breathtaking vacation slideshows, mesmerizing wedding videos. Give a calendar or a music mix CD to a friend that cost you nothing but a few mouse clicks. Creator 10 makes it fun and easy with professional-looking DVD menus or templates.

Top 10 cool things you can do now with Creator 10 1. Copy* your favorite audio, movies and TV shows from any iPod to your PC. 2. Add perfect soundtracks to slideshows and movies--no looping. 3. Send videos to YouTube with one click. 4. Auto-fix your camera phone photos with the Mobile Photo Doctor. 5. Show off mobile phone pictures without bars or borders. 6. Auto-sync digital media on your PC and mobile devices. 7. Convert audio and video files to the format of your choice--right on your Windows Vista desktop. 8. Save tons of time by ripping CDs from multiple drives. 9. Control lots of gigs: save data to HD DVDs and copy with one click. 10. Automatically catalog the contents of your CDs and DVDs.

Key New Features and Enhancements
Easy Media Creator 10 combines over 40 components and many new features and enhancements into a comprehensive suite of best-of-breed digital media applications. Here is a quick breakdown of what's new in Creator 10:

Embracing Vista
The now fully certified Easy Media Creator 10, is the ideal complement and enhancement to Microsoft Vista. The product now sports a stunning new "Aero" User Interface design in keeping with the visual appeal of the latest Operating System. Perhaps more importantly, Easy Media Creator offers new features and capabilities that are specifically designed to naturally extend the digital-media functionality of Vista. Creator now also includes new Vista gadgets, which make it convenient for users to quickly convert audio and video files to a favorite file type directly on the Vista desktop. In the case of the audio gadget, users can also use it to capture audio from various sources including streaming Web audio.

Mobile Companion
Easily Media Creator 10 adds a number of features to allow users to maximize the use of their multi-media enabled devices. This includes a feature for quickly fixing photos snapped using a device's built-in digital cameras called Mobile Photo Doctor. In addition, Mobile PhotoFit ensures digital photos are displayed accurately based on the capabilities of the device and a synchronizing tool enables users to prepare content for automatic transfer the next time a device is connected.

Enhancing Audio
For audiophiles, Easy Media Creator makes improvements to AutoMix a feature that automatically generates a collection of songs that sound great together based on a single Ôseed' song selected by the user. The resulting collection can be saved to the Hard Drive as a playlist, used to create a music CD, DVD, or sent to a mobile player. DVD Music Album, the feature that allows users to create 50-hour music DVDs complete with on-screen navigation has been enhanced with a range of new professionally-designed menu templates. Easy Media Creator also now offers a Batch Audio Converter that saves users time by automatically converting a wide range of audio file types into a single desired format (such as .MP3). The program also provides users with the ability to use disc drives in parallel so they can very quickly rip their entire CD collection. In addition, Creator's Sound Editor now supports VST plugins to allow users to enhance their audio editing and mixing capabilities.

Data Protection
Creator 10 lets users backup files to predefined archive categories such as Email, Financial, Music, and Photos or create their own custom categories. Special features allow users to backup only files that have changed since the last known backup or automatically prompt for a backup when an external Hard Drive is connected. Creator supports a range of backup devices and media including Blu-ray Discs and HD DVD discs. Large files can be automatically spanned across multiple discs as required. Finding a file that's stored on a disc is now a whole lot easier thanks to the new Disc Gallery feature that creates a catalog on the user's PC of all the offline content stored on CDs and DVDs. In addition, Creator now includes a feature to enable users to archive non-protected iPod music and video files to a PC even if that PC is not paired with the device.

After you have created a video using the video creation tools in Creator 10, you can easily upload it to YouTube.

There are dozens of menu styles to choose from for any event or occasion, including all new professionally designed styles with matching chapter/scene menus.

Video Editing and Publishing
Beyond the unrivaled editing power offered in the 32-track timeline, complete with batch video-segment removal, timeline markers and automatic tools for correcting color and removing background noise, users can now easily add the perfect sound track with the SmartSound feature. SmartSound provides a variety of built-in sound tracks to suit any mood. Users simply select the music they like and it is automatically added and adjusted to fit the length of their production. Video output options have also been enhanced. Creator supports quick output of video content to popular user-generated content site YouTube. The suite also provides new menu styles, menu navigation, and Fit-to-Disc auto encoding for when users author DVDs.

Creator 10 Key Components

Core, feature-rich applications provide a wealth of hands-on control.

• Roxio Central
  Roxio Central is the streamlined central launch area where users can enter an application, a task assistant, or quickly complete a popular digital media activity such as copy a disc.
• Media Manager
  Media Manager is the component that enables users to easily browse, manage, share and protect their media files.
• Creator Classic
  Offers reliable data burning with powerful advanced features such as disc spanning, compression, encryption and parallel burning.
• Video Copy & Convert
  Allows users to backup non-encrypted DVD-Videos or convert video files into preferred formats for use on an iPod, PSP, Windows Media portable device or mobile phone.
• PhotoSuite
  For editing and enhancing photos, creating delightful photo projects and gifts.
• VideoWave
  Powerful 32 track video editor with HD support and studio quality tools, effects, and transitions.
• MyDVD
  For authoring professional-looking DVDs and VCDs
• CinePlayer
  Full featured video player.
• Music Disc Creator
  Create audio CDs with DJ-style fades, MP3 mix discs, or music DVDs with up to 50 hours of music.
• Sound Editor
  Record, convert and edit audio files.
• Label Creator
  Create personalized disc labels, case covers and inserts.

Music Disc Creator helps you create audio CDs with DJ-style fades, MP3 mix discs, or music DVDs with 50 hours of music, on-screen menus and shuffle play.

PhotoSuite provides picture perfect photo editing and enhancements, and helps you to create delightful projects.

CinePlayer is the easiest way to enjoy your music, photos, video and DVDs.

Vista Gadgets (accessible from Vista Sidebar)
Vista gadgets provide the ease of doing things directly on the desktop

• Audio/Video Converter Gadget
  Drag and drop audio and video files for automatic conversion to a preferred format and to a preferred location (folder or portable device.)
• Easy Audio Capture Gadget
  Instantly capture any audio playing on your computer, including streaming radio.

Task Assistants (accessible from Roxio Central)
Task Assistants guide users quickly through the completion of a rich project.

• LP & Tape Assistant
  For digitizing LPs & tapes.
• Quick Music DVD
  For producing 50-hour music disc on a standard DVD that plays in any DVD player.
• Audio Tag Editor
  Automatically adds artist, album, song title or other track information to songs.
• Plug & Burn
  Turns camcorder DV tapes into a finished DVD in one simple step.
• CineMagic
  Automatically edits raw video into a finished production.
• MyDVD Express
  Creates great looking DVDs with your pictures and videos.
• Slideshow Assistant
  Transforms still photos into fantastic slideshows complete with pan & zoom motion effects, titles and soundtrack.
• Batch Audio Converter
  Batch converts selected audio files or an entire library into a preferred format.
• Multi CD Ripper
  Rip audio CD tracks to hard disk from multiple drives at the same time.
• Photo Assistants
  Turn photos into calendars, cards, panoramas, posters and other memorable projects.
• Express Labeler
  Personalize your CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs with labels and case covers Ð supports print to disc technology and laser labeling.
• AutoMix
  Creates a perfect playlists based on songs that are similar to selected Ôseed' song.

Innovative Utilities and Features (accessible from Roxio Central)
Creator 10 includes innovative utilities that help users do even more with their media and digital devices.

• Disc Image Loader
  Mount up to 23 disc image files as virtual drives, as if they were physical discs in a drive.
• Media Import
  Easily import and capture audio, video and photos from both digital and analog devices.
• Disc Gallery
  Catalogs all the files stored on discs so users can instantly find an offline file

Great Menu and Project Themes (accessible from MyDVD, DVD Music and Photo projects)
Creator 10 includes innovative utilities that help users do even more with their recorder and media, as well as with other peripheral devices, such as cameras and camcorders.

• DVD Menu Themes
  15 new high quality menu themes for DVD-Video creation
• DVD Music Disc Themes
  10 new themes to fit any mood
• Photo Projects Themes
  Standout projects with 34 new templates.

Product Description

Produce impressive multi-media projects that combine photos, video and music; share and enjoy on CD, DVD, the web or on popular portable players and cell phones. Includes step-by-step video tutorials that lead users through the process of completing a wide range of personal digital-media projects. Backup non-encrypted DVD-Videos or convert video files into preferred formats for use on an iPod, PSP, Windows Media portable device or mobile phone. Powerful 32 track video editor with HD support and studio quality tools, effects, and transitions; edit and enhance photos, creating delightful photo projects and gifts. New features and capabilities that are specifically designed to naturally extend the digital-media functionality of Vista.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

110 of 118 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Maybe more than you need..., September 26, 2007

By 

Jem (MD, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 10 (OLD VERSION) (CD-ROM)

(What's this?)

Creator Suite 10 does it all (or at least anything I could possibly want to do). Audio, video, data, photos, media devices, label creation and more. You can download directly from a camera, camcorder, iPod, cell phone and most portable devices. It has a sound editor to capture sound from DVDs and other sources. It even converts LPs and cassettes to digital sound from a stereo input. DVDs are easy to create and users can add soundtracks using their own music catalog. The program screens are well organized, with helpful wizards to get a user started with every feature.

I recently purchased a new HP tablet laptop with Windows Vista. Windows Vista does not work with older versions of many software programs. I already own Nero Burning Rom and Easy CD Creator 6. Neither would work with Vista. Creator Suite 10 runs perfectly with Vista. Also, older Roxio products do not do DVD burning and my version of Roxio will not rip from CDs to create MP3s (which is why I had bought Nero). I had never created DVDs before getting this program. But, it worked perfectly with the Lightscribe DVD drive, and I easily created a DVD from MPEGS, added chapter inserts and customized the menu. It played in our 5-disc DVD player with no issues. Burning CDs was just as simple.

So, why 4 stars and not 5? First, doing it all is great - unless you're never going to use it. A $100 retail price is a little high for some users. Other than the DVD and CD burning, I am unlikely to use the product to do photo manipulation and the myriad other features available. I already own other programs that do these things, that I am more skilled at using. Second, it will likely not work in an older system. I tried loading this on my 2 year old Averatec laptop running Windows XP. I could not get the software to install. I ran DSKCHK when prompted by Windows, but the disk would run loudly in my drive and go nowhere. I did install it on a Dell GX620 system running XP with no problem, so it is the laptop (or drive), not XP, that's the problem.

If you have an older computer, or just want to burn CDs, you may want to go with a cheaper media program. If you've got a brand new system with Windows Vista, I cannot recommend Easy Media Creator Suite 10 enough.

74 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I am ready for my close-up Mr. Demille..., September 24, 2007

By 

Leah M. Brown "Leah Marie Brown, Author" (Mentally in Paris, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 10 (OLD VERSION) (CD-ROM)

(What's this?)

I will admit it, I have always been intimidated by the idea of purchasing and using video editing software. The very thought conjured a thousand questions/anxieties: How do I transfer my movies from my device to my computer? I know how to transfer movies from my digital camera, but what if I want to transfer movies from a camcorder, will they work on my computer? Do I need different software? If I edit the movie, will I permanently lose the scenes I cut? How much space will this software and these movies take up on my computer? Can I stitch photos together to make a movie?

Roxio Easy Media Creator 10 put my fears to rest. This easy to use software comes equipped with a great wizard program which acts as a tutorial, guiding you through the various procedures, step-by-step.

I am not a techie, so I can't talk about the technical aspects of this software program, nor can I compare it to other comparable programs.

What I can tell you is this:

I performed two functions with this software and was very, very pleased:

1. I shot a home video with my digital camera. It was a film of my children's musical recital. There was a lot of background noise which annoyed me and distracted from the performance. I was able to reduce the background noise without ruining the video.

I was also able to add a sound track to a soundtrack to some movies using SmartSound.

2. Using Mobile Phone Doctor, I was able to greatly improve the quality of some photos I took this summer at Disneyworld. I really liked the photos but was not pleased with the clarity. Using this software, I was able to sharpen the details to the point I was hoping.

The pro: This software is easy to use.

The con: This program complements Windows Vista, which I do not have. I think it would have been nice if it was advertised or marked on thebox that the user will be able to use a lot of features if they have Windows Vista...that it is a necessary complimentary program.

59 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A continued evolution of the Roxio suite, October 15, 2007

By 

Omar Siddique (Ellicott City, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 10 (OLD VERSION) (CD-ROM)

(What's this?)

I'm always a bit leery of Big Software: packages that try to do too much, install too many components, try to get their hooks set all over your system. So I was a bit leery installing the newest release of Roxio Easy Media Creator, which has been growing rapidly into bloat-ware in recent releases. It turned out that Ipleasantly surprised to find it more streamlined, cleaner, and professional-looking than previously.

Although one of the big "enhancements" in this release is Vista support, I tested this package on my Windows XP Pro machine, on which I was previously running Roxio Creator 9. I cleanly removed Creator 9 first since installing on top of an old version is always a bad idea, many software complaints seem to arise from not uninstalling the old software first. Install was straightforward if a bit slow to run on my Inpiron Dual Core system.

My primary purpose in buying Roxio, like many of you, is to create media. Burning CDs, DVDs, etc is the core strength of Roxio, and they continue to do this well. One of my frequent tasks is burning CDs from ISO images. Roxio did this with literally 4 clicks, nice and easy.

The master control panel has been streamlined and it's now easier to get to all of the functions of the package.

Some of the old bloat is gone (the "ringtone maker" is no longer included), although big extraneous components like the PhotoSuite photo editor and audiox mixing tools remain. Those may be useful to the neophyte, but anybody wanting to really tweak their photos is likely to fire up an Adobe product, or something that came with their camera, or with their computer, or some other full featured package. Including such superfluous programs in a Media Creator suite (when they are available from so many other sources) seems excessive, but I guess it lets the publisher lengthen the feature list.

Other major enhancements include support for Blu-Ray, HD DVD, and HD video, though I didn't have the equipment to check out that new functionality.

If you don't need the Vista support, or the enhanced DVD support, there's not a burning reason (pun intended!) to upgrade from Roxio Creator Suite 9 to Roxio Creator Suite 10. But if you're in the market, this is a fine product and does its core media work as advertised.

While I wish it were more streamlined still, the software works well, installs easily, and has become more streamlined than before. Recommended with a 5 star rating.