Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.5 Review


 

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Review:
Easy Media
Creator

Version: 7.5

Reviewers: Dee-27 & Womble

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Provided By: Roxio UK

Review Date: July 2005

Introduction:


Easy Media Creator 7.5 is Roxio's latest and most complete burning product from Roxio. It has a number of features to copy and burn CD's, all with easy to follow instructions along with numerous other programs to backup your PC and for transferring DivX movies to DVD's.

Company Information:

Sonic Solutions, Roxio's corporate parent is the leader in digital media software, providing a broad range of interoperable, platform independent software tools and applications for creative professionals, consumers, and technology partners. Sonic's products range from professional DVD authoring systems used by Hollywood studios to create the most-advanced and highly-interactive blockbuster DVDs, to intuitive, easy to use software for consumers who want to convert their personal data, home movies, photos and music into high-quality DVDs and CDs. Sonic's licensing group enables third parties like Adobe, Microsoft, Scientific-Atlanta, Sony and others to add digital media creation to their PC applications and consumer electronics set-top-box products.

Program Features:

Below are the main features of the program.

Burn Copy Secure

Roxio's reliable burning technology makes recording everything to CD and DVD fast and easy. Burn or copy data, audio, photo, video CDs, and DVDs. Roxio supports the widest range of burners, including the latest dual layer drives, and delivers clear information with CD and DVD diagnostic tools.

New, superior tools for all your data needs

         CD and DVD diagnostic tools include CD/DVD Speed Test, CD/DVD Read Error Test, and DVD PI/PIF/Jitter Test

         Mount disc images to create virtual disc drives '” preserve the original discs, avoid disc swapping and extend laptop battery life

         Emulate up to 23 drives and load disc image files simultaneously

High quality copies made faster and easier

         Back up your DVDs* and movies with one click

         Improved DVD-9 to DVD-5 compression technology copies* DVD-Video discs up to 30% faster

         Copy and burn disc image files including popular .iso and .bin/.cue formats

         Includes RAW copy mode '” for exact copies of discs including hidden or out-of-spec sectors

Bulletproof data safety

         Password-protect and secure your data with 128-bit encryption

         Drag and drop files to CD and DVD as you would to a giant floppy

         Automatically span large files across multiple discs

         Burn audio and data discs, mixed mode and enhanced CDs

         Create bootable CDs and DVDs to recover your system in case of a crash

         Maximize the available disc space with multisession CDs and DVDs

         Validate source files before burning and verify file system after recording

Music Made Easy

The digital music revolution is here. Join in. Capture Internet audio for your MP3 player. Discover new tunes with Napster. Preserve music from old LPs and tapes. Create perfect CD or MP3 mixes. Enjoy your music where, when and how you want it with great new features in Easy Media Creator 7.5.

Discover new tunes

         Capture your favourite Internet music or radio shows for your MP3 player library

         Access over 1 million songs online with Napster®

Preserve Your Old LPs

         Easily convert your favourite LPs and cassettes to CD with LP and Tape Assistant

         Remove pops, clicks and hiss for a perfect listening experience

Create perfect mixes

         Rip audio CDs to MP3, WMA, OGG, and WAV files

         Use Sound Editor to create original mixes with smart track splitting and burn directly to an audio CD

         Rip and edit audio CD tracks and apply custom sound effects

         Automatically import artist, album and song information with CDDB Online Disc Recognition and CD Text support

         Normalize the volume of multiple tracks taken from different sources before burning

         Copy your favourite music tracks and create greatest hits mixes

         Easily adjust the volume, fade-in/fade-out and stereo pan of any point in a track with envelope control

         Fit more audio '” now supports overburn on 90 and 99 minute CDs with supported drives

         Greater Editing Controls: With multi-level undo and redo, the ability to apply sound effects to an entire track or just a portion, pitch controls, repeat mix capabilities and a multi-layer editor, Sound Editor provides you with the necessary control to create truly exciting audio mixes

Make unforgettable gifts

         Create personalized disc labels, DVD case inserts, and booklets '” while you burn

         Choose from dozens of professionally-designed templates or create your own with full-featured text editing and design tools

         Import your photos from hard drive, scanner or digital camera

         Fit the text precisely within the available label space with smart text positioning

         Print labels directly on disc with supported printers and burners

Preserve & Protect Your Memories

With PhotoSuite® 7 Platinum and VideoWave® 7 Professional, you can make your pictures perfect and your movies the envy of your family and friends.

Capture & organize

         Start by transferring photos or video to your PC '” plug in your digital camera, camcorder or scanner and begin capturing

         Easily find the files your want with the powerful search engine

         Dynamically browse files by date in Calendar view

         Assign tags to categorize your photos by people, places, or events

Make your pictures perfect

         Tweak your images to perfection with instant red-eye removal, crop, rotate, and straighten tools

         Let advanced PhotoDoctor™ automatically fix exposure, sharpness and saturation

         Experiment with professional tools like masking, clone, smart edge detection and effects brushes

Edit video the way you want it

         Edit like a pro with advanced Timeline editing, which supports up to 14 tracks and in-place editing

         Control the timing of background audio, narration, video clips, titles, and special effects in your production

         Let CineMagic® automatically edit a movie for you, complete with transitions, special effects and background audio in 3 steps

         Easily substitute backgrounds in your video with powerful Chroma Key effects

         Preview and capture only the scenes you want from a DV camcorder with SmartScan

         Select from over 300 Hollywood-style transitions, 2D or 3D effects and overlays

Create, share, enjoy

         Combine your photos with professionally designed templates to create cards, calendars, and other projects

         Create impressive photo collages with advanced control over layers, edge fading, and transparency

Professional DVD tools for everyone

Bring Hollywood home and become your own digital producer. Create professional-quality DVD movies or slideshows with animated menus and a Dolby® Digital soundtrack. Novices and experts alike can impress friends and family with easy and powerful DVD authoring…in no time at all.

Author DVDs like a pro

         Produce professional-quality DVDs with animated menus, buttons, chapters and background themes

         Move & resize menu buttons, add titles and personalize text credits

         Plug & Burn™ automatically captures the entire contents of your video camera to DVD '” in just two clicks

         Edit existing DVD* discs (+VR): append new or remove unwanted content

         MS-DVR Support '” Edit and create DVDs from Media Center PC TV Recordings

         Extract MPEG-2 video files directly from VIDEO_TS VOB files

         Burn to DVD, Video CD, Super Video CD or DVD on CD

Copy DVDs* and movies

         Easily make high quality copies of your DVD movies '” now up to 30% faster

         Compress an entire 9 GB dual-layer DVD disc to a standard 4.7 GB DVD disc

         Back up the full disc with all video, menus, and extras with one click

         Maximize video quality and available disc space by extracting just the main movie, language, and audio format

         Download DivX or XviD movies and create DVDs to watch in your living room

Create DVD slideshows

         Combine photos, music and professional transitions into a stunning slideshow

         Bring your photos to life and create slideshows with dramatic pan and zoom motion effects

         Automatically adjust the duration of your slides to perfectly fit the length of the music

Play Hollywood DVDs

         CinePlayer™ plays Hollywood DVD movies, VCDs, and games on your PC

         Supports Dolby® Digital (AC-3), 5.1 channel Dolby Digital pass-through, LPCM, MPEG-1 Layer 2 and MPEG-2 2-channel audio formats

Don't lose it! Keep it safe with BackUp MyPC™ Deluxe!

Your computer is at risk from system crashes, viruses, file corruption, and a host of other disasters. BackUp MyPC is the award-winning way to preserve, protect, and back up your critical data and digital media files quickly and easily. Designed for the non-expert, in the event of a computer failure, it will reliably recover your valuable data, applications, photos, video, music, e-mail, even your operating system.

System backup and disaster recovery

         Easy-to-use interface, with step-by-step Wizards and simple, clear backup options

         Quickly restore a system without needing to reinstall Windows®

         Schedule full, partial and unattended backups '” no more forgetting!

         Save disc space using advanced compression technology

         Backup Profiles and password protection give complete privacy

         Backup Verification confirms successful backup for peace of mind

         Easily restore files to original or alternate location

         File versioning restores the exact version of the document you select

         Back up everything from local or network computer systems

         Completely recover your data and applications in case of a crash, system failure or other disaster

         Configurable Disaster Recovery option allows restoration of hardware settings

Back up to:

         CD or DVD discs*, including DVD+R DL (Double Layer)

         Hard drives including USB and Firewire external devices

         Tape Drives: 8mm, ADR, AIT, DAT, QIC, Travan

         Removable media : Zip, Jaz, MO and LS-120 Superdisk

         Network and shared devices

         Supports all major CD and DVD formats

*Does not copy encrypted or copy-protected DVDs

In Roxio's Own Words:

More, faster, better; that's what Roxio Easy Media Creator™ 7.5 is all about. Burning and copying CDs and DVDs has never been faster, and creating Hollywood-style movies or photo slideshows has never been easier. Your music is where, when, and how you want it, and your video and photos never looked this good. Add to that a complete, award-winning backup application and you can feel confident that all your projects are safe. Expand your digital horizons with the #1 digital media suite!

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