| Review: Version: 7.5 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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