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Summary: Worst software expereince ever!
Review: Throughly disappointing! Read through the support comments - how much time can people afford to waste. Twice I have returned the product. I called customer service - voice mail and they want $35 an hour to support the product that won't install on Windows XP, 60 MB and 1.6 mgz.Finally had to return the software for a refund - 4 to 6 weeks turn time. Time to cut my losses. Will have to think hard before buying Roxio again.
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Summary: Generate low quality DVD movies
Review: I bought this product to create DVD movies. However the quality of the DVD moives are much poorer than the original DV tapes. But if you buy this product for other purposes, it might be a good choice. And that is why I give it a "two starts" Roxio is a great company and refund all my money back with a painful process. So that I would suggest to purchase a download version if you would like to try it out by yourself.
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Summary: Could have been a four star if
Review: I finally broke down and bought this version after completely skipping 6.0. The installation went well. After ersarting the pc, I hooked my camcorder up, and went to using the feature I bought it for, Videowave.
Unfortunately, Videowave to did not perform well at all. It crashed a lot. And that was just during the importing of video. When it did work, it would crash while importing video. I decided to shorten the video a bit and got a whole three minutes worth of video imported. I didn't even get to edit. It crashed of course. I gave up on it, and stuck with my NERO 6 for that task.
I tried out the other features, and they were adequate for basic functions. I liked it, althought the Nero interface is more user friendly to me.
It could have been a five star if the Videowave would have functioned properly and they wouldn't have included Napster 2.0.
Come on, Napster 2.0? Getting a bit of money on the side from what the customers purchase to download, Roxio? This is one feature that should have been left out, completely. Not even an option to install it should have been included with this suite.
So save your money for something more intuitive and functional, like Nero 6, and wait for all the patches to be available before purchasing this to save you some headaches.
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Summary: Big Disappointment
Review: I tried five times to author a DVD. Each time the visual quality was awful, and the audio was totally out of synch. Tech support is almost non-existent. I switched to Sonic MyDVD and it worked flawlessly the first time. Burning regular Audio CDs is fine, but any program can do that. I would stay away from this bloated package.
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Summary: Easy as pie to use
Review: If you liked the Plattinum version, this Suite rocks. It doesn't get any easier. I especially like the way the Label Maker comes up without asking as soon as you start to burn a CD. Furthermore, the edit feasture offers so much more in customizing your cover. I can't wait to do a DVD
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Summary: Roxio vs. Memories Instant Computer Scrapbook
Review: Roxio advantage continues to be smooth integration between photo editing and CD sharing. For ease of use and ability to link photo with titles, text, songs and songs, the newly release Memories Instant Computer Scrapbook wins hands down.[...]
I think many people are already looking to go beyond generic photo organizing capabilities and looking to the new generation of software like Memories that can handle all sorts of multimedia and is very easy to use
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Summary: Does everything!
Review: I wanted to create a DVD presentation with photos and video clips - with background music track and narration. This product does it all. Many editing tools are available for fades, transitions, captions, etc. - even pre-set themes. You can set up all your clips, rearrange, adjust length of time on screen for each photo if you want, and then add the sound. You can even zoom in and/or add motion to a still picture! It all works - even for a novice!
I did have to go to the Roxio website to get a patch when the original DVD Builder would not load, but that was simple to do, and now it works perfectly.
We have made presentations for a wedding, a family history, and are working are more fun things with kids. Great for a video yearbook.
Just a note - after reading other reviews, I should mention that I am using this with XP - no problem!
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Summary: Easy Media Creator 7 a Disaster on Windows XP
Review: I used Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 flawlessly while running Windows 98SE. Burning CD's was fun and easy while transfering and saving data to formatted Roxio Direct CD's was absolutely no problem. Then, I traded in my "old" computer running 98SE for the newest PC running Windows XP. First, I discovered that the Easy Creator 5 software would not "recognize" the two Lite-On DVD combination drives installed in my new computer. Roxio was no longer offering driver updates and support for the 5.0 version so my only alternative was to upgrade; hence I purchased Easy Media Creator 7. Much to my dismay I discovered that the many CD-RW's of documents and photos I stored on DirectCD 5.0 were not compatible with Creator 7.0. Roxio support sent me an e-mail saying I would have to re-format my disks and re-save the data under the new Creator 7.0 format. When I try to burn music files to CD-R, all I get from Easy Creator 7.0 is an unable to copy message due to an "unknown error". When I try to save MS Word or Excel documents to CD-RW's formatted with Easy 7.0, I get messages saying there is "not enought space on the disk." When I use Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 and try to save family photos to Easy 7.0 formatted disks, I get a message saying the directory is full and I should choose another drive or directory. After downloading the latest driver updates from Roxio and doing a system restart, my screen went totally blank and the entire computer froze up. After shutting down power to the entire system and doing another re-boot, I was finally able to get it up and running. In total frustration, I have deleted the entire Easy Media Creator 7.0 from my Windows XP OS. Basically, I flushed about $80 down the toilet for software that is totally useless. My computer store vendor told me to stay with the Sonic software that came pre-loaded on the XP and I should have listened to his advice! Hey, Roxio, how could you screw up my computer so badly with Easy Media Creator 7.0 when you had such an excellent product in Easy Media Creator 5.0???
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Summary: Much Improved after Patch
Review: Like others, I had many problems with the video components of EZ Media creator. This was installed under Windwos XP SP1. The recent release of a patch solved many if not all of the problems. The patch is a must! I have been using CD Creator since release 4.5 and will continue to do so.
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Summary: You need to have a lot of Time
Review: I brought the program because I had Easy Media 5 and was happy with it. Unfortunately this package seems to have a lot of problems. My first was loading - it seemed to take forever to load into my system which is a 1 year old Dell 2.4 Ghz system. Next it runs very slow. I did not have too much trouble dragging and dropping slides into the package to make a DVD slide show, but when I hit the burn button it took over 40 minutes for the program to complete the burning process. During this process, my screens were partially opening and freezing, like they used to do years ago with the early versions of windows when you did not have enough memory. Well I finally got the product, popped it into my DVD player and the slides are all fuzzy. I put this down to TV screen resolution till I took the DVD back to my computer and ran it there. I had the same result - fuzzy pictures, which seemed to be shimmying on my screen. I was very disappointed. To make matters worse, this DVD of about 250 slides was made from a selection of about 1700 slides which I very carefully loaded into the system. When I tried to open these files again to re burn the DVD, I found out that none of the files was accessable. I could see them on the slide show files, but when I tried to drag them into a new production, the computer could not find them. I have contacted customer service, but it is now 5 days and counting, without anything but a "we got your message" message.
So, I would say, if you have a lot of time to wait around while the burner burns and you don't care so much about quality, then this is a product for you. Otherwise look elsewhere. PC World rates the Ahead Nero 6 pretty good, I guess I will give that a try.
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