Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 9 [OLD VERSION]

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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: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000HJQYE0
• Item model number: 227100
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 31, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (248 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,564 in Software (See Bestsellers 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

Your Digital Life - To Go! Product Information Easy Media Creator 9 keeps up with you and all your digital media needs, whetheryou're mixing music, capturing orediting video, organizing or fixing photos,burning or copying CDs or DVDs, or backing up irreplaceable files.  Enjoyand share your music, movies, and pictures, where and how you want - in theliving room, car or office - on your

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

51 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	B. Fuhs - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	LyleM (Washington) - See all my reviews

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.

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Need crucial monitor driver, then useless software turned into the best, January 8, 2007

By	KendrickT - See all my reviews

I can't say my start was the best. I had some critical problems when I installed easy media 9. The slide show creator and video editors would not show the video properly. My screen was just filled with abstract art. I thought the problem was in the software so I sent an email to customer support. In spite of the complaints I've heard, the response came quickly. There is a general problem with some older laptops and it requires a monitor driver update. Roxio Customer service led me to my laptop's site, Lenovo. I installed the monitor driver and that solved everything. It didn't occur to me that a laptop would need an update since the monitor is built in. This was such a simple fix but it had caused a major problem with the software usage. I would give roxio a chance since they were so good at pinpointing my problem and then getting back to me in a day.

Now that I have the program running flawlessly I can review some features. I created a slide show and apparently it is made into a video file. A great thing is that you can do some photo editing after you've chosen the photos for the sllde show. Most programs require that you fix that photos first, or else you have to go back and use the photo editor and start the process over. I had noticed that some photos were too dark and I adjusted the contrast to make the details sharper. After that I added a song. After my first attempt I noticed that the photos were timed to the song length. Since the song was too long I tried another song which was more suitable.

So now I can also use the video editors. There are 2 in the package. I think it's easier to start with Cinemagic since it is a simpler program to master. I was impressed that you there is an auto chapter separation from the start. I could tweak the chapters in several ways. Of course you can rearrange them, merge them, and edit them. This is a good method to quickly handle home video.

I like the versatility of this suite. After I edited the home video I sent it to my mobile phone. It was as easy as plugging in the phone and selecting the video file. I noticed that you can send music and photos too. So then I tried sending photos. That was a success too. I'm sure I'll find other ways to use this program.