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Reviewed on 2008-07-23

New features make this almost perfect
My first try with Roxio easy media was version 9 with the Dazzle video converter. The bundle gave me a method of turning all my tapes into digital media. I waited a bit for the price drop of 10 since 9 wasn't that old and I'm astounded at how different, yet similar it is. At first glance 10 doesn't look very different than 9 but there are now a bunch of new things that make it a different enough program.
Video with Videowave and cinemagic: each program has a few more options from 9. The biggest change I found was the soundtrack. It is now much easier to do. It also edits HD video. None too soon considering tv broadcast changes.
Music: Biggest changes here. It makes batch formatting changes and rips disks from several drives at once. The automix is more elaborate.
Photo: It makes autofixes. If I don't like the results I can use the manual setting changes. More album adn slideshow formats.
Gadgets: This is new and makes the program a step above others. I can take any media file and convert it to my phone and ipod. It works the other way by sending media to the pc from the gadgets.
Disk burning: Burning is relatively the same but complementary tools are better. It catalogs the disk contents, something I felt was needed in 9. I see that it can copy HD and blueray disks, but I don't have the proper burners yet to test.
For anyone wanting to convert tapes I would recommend this program, regardless of what converter you have. I don't see any need for any side programs to finish media projects.

Reviewed on 2008-07-22

do not by this product
I have been using computers since the 80's and have used Creator 7 with no problems , this product unfortunately installed ok but everytime I tried to run it my system froze, I tried all the tricks I know but just lost a lot of sleep playing with it, I had read other reviews but thought they did not know what they were doing ,I should have listen to they

Reviewed on 2008-07-09

It will do what it says, but with unpredictable results
I have purchased Easy Media Creator 8, 9 and now 10. I have been disappointed with them all but have always given Roxio a second chance with each new release.

I recorded a TV musical in MPEG2 format.

I used Roxio's MyDVD to make the DVD's. So far these are the problems you can expect to see when using this program:

All the video is un-synced to the audio by half a second. It did not matter whether I used MPEG2 video or WMV video files.

What you see on the screen is not what you get. Even though I meticulously manually made every chapter marker, the program decided to place them all one second ahead where I chose, creating unintended effects and losing the impact intended.

The video quality varies and looks acceptable in some sections and looks unacceptable in others.

Yesterday my first DVD attempt, for this project, produced a DVD that did not start at the beginning the the movie, even though I tested the playback of the DVD on the DVD Menu tester. It was supposed to start at the beginning as designed. Instead it started five minutes into the DVD, which was not even a chapter marker location. In fact, with that DVD I did yesterday I had not set up any chapter markers.

Conclusion: Roxio MyDVD is a program to be avoided. It is unreliable and therefore unusable. If one program is unreliable in the suite, how can anyone trust the rest of the software? I have uninstalled the suite for good.

Reviewed on 2008-07-09

Accessible, strong solution for video conversion
At first glance I thought this was a specific video converting solution. It does do that and well but it has a lot of other digital media projects. On an old Intel Celeron, 512 RAM the tape to pc was so-so. The video converted but the speed varied. I had long enough av inputs to stretch the converter to my more powerful desktop. The tapes converted perfectly. The frame rate remained the same even on SVHS tapes.
This program is perfect for archiving too. I put the raw footage on dual layer disks. I also used maximum comrpession to fit as much as I could. With the backups done I started the editing process. Home movies took time since there is a lot of junk footage. It took me awhile to figure out VideoWave but it is an accurate way to edit. I tried cinemagic and although it worked fast, I'm particular about the cuts. It worked fast and most of the auto-made chapters were on the money. Once though I figured out VideoWave it was faster to make the edits but at least there is a choice.
The given specs are fairly accurate about the rest of the features. The audio/photo projects are elaborate enough to get rid of standalone programs. If you are aching to rid yourself of tape players and tapes this is a good way to obtain that goal.

Reviewed on 2008-06-30

Horrible Horrible Horrible
This is a product deserves a class action suite. Lousy install followed by bugs and crashes then not starting. Downloaded the 719 MB 'update' and exactly the same problems - after spending over an hour cleaning the old one off the system. I think I am a pretty advanced computer user, network adminsitrator etc. Support is just as bad - you spend $1.80/min to hear silly time-consuming things you can do that will not solve anything.

Never again Roxio products, no way.

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Easy Media Creator 10 Deluxe

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