ARCSOFT ShowBiz DVD ( Windows )

by Arc Soft

Product Features

• Just select your videoclips and add them to the menu -- each one becomes a new chapter automatically
• Design your own DVDs in PAL or NTSC format, and incorporate slideshows into your movie's look and feel
• Set up your video clips, animated slideshows, then burn it directly to a DVD -- all you need to do is click a few times
• Add submenus, or do some fancy editing to add power to your video
• Sample content helps you get started as you become the dorector & producer of your own movies!

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• ASIN: B0000CDHOW
• Item model number: pcsb0003
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 29, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,360 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I found it to be unusable., October 30, 2003

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H Rebel (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ARCSOFT ShowBiz DVD ( Windows ) (CD-ROM)

This software came with my HP 300i DVD burner which I purchased during July 2003. It may have worked with a given set of hardware and video formats in the lab but it did not work for me. Most of the time it either reported that the file format was incompatable or crashed. It even took XP down with it ! Note that ULEAD's products (and others) had no problems with these files.

I see this product as a black mark for Arcsoft and HP. It seems the neither of these firms took the time to do realistic testing prior to shipping it. HP has promised an updated version but we are still waiting 3 months latter.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Highly unreliable - not recommended -Crash happy, September 15, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: ARCSOFT ShowBiz DVD ( Windows ) (CD-ROM)

In general ArcSoft's "Create a DVD" or "Create a VCD" are easily to use. The interface(s) are intuitive and a small show can be quickly produced. The trouble begins with trying to write the project to a DVD. Here the "ShowBiz DVD" software has a mind of it own. "ShowBiz DVD" often does not recognize the perfectly good, blank media. Should you make the grave mistake of trying to author a DVD, you will be punished severaly with crash after crash.

My advise: hands of this smud of software.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A buggy vesion 2.0, March 19, 2004

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Gary (Long Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ARCSOFT ShowBiz DVD ( Windows ) (CD-ROM)

I have made some nice DVDs using Showbiz 2.0, but man was it frustrating. Examples: It does not tell you until burn time that your 1 hour 25 minute video won't fit on a 2-hour disk. There is no "undo" when typing titles. Try to get from the authoring screen to the EDIT screen and the button is greyed out; it takes 1 or 2 pointless clicks to get it to appear. It won't capture until video is present, so you have to rewind your source to get the beginning, then edit out the rewind. With the HP device it was bundled with, it arbitrarily quits in the middle of capture. Hope you folks can point me to something better for my next purchase.