Roxio Creator 2010 [OLD VERSION]
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Software Summary
Manufacturer: RoxioBrand: Roxio
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: DVD-ROM
Release Date: 2009-09-21
Platform: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Model: 244000
Product features:
- Roxio Creator 2010 lets you easily preserve and share photo, video and audio projects
- Your big screen TV, online, or on portable devices like your iPhone and more
- Turn your finished movies into cinematic masterpieces in HD on Blu-ray
- Choose professionally-designed styles and themes for your photos then add fun effects and music
- Choose your video clips, select a theme and music,
- Disc or standard DVDs to enjoy on HDTV through your Blu-ray Disc player, complete with animated themes and fully orchestrated music
- Easily capture and convert your standard, HD or AVCHD video, audio or photo files to enjoy on DVD,
- Let Creator assemble and produce a finished movie that will make a lasting impression with your audience
- Share online with family and friends, or even order it on DVD
Software Reviews of Roxio Creator 2010 [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Digital Media's Swiss Army Knife
Summary: 5 Stars
Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?)
BRIEF ASSESSMENT
Roxio Creator 2010 offers a rich set of essential tools for data copying to DVD or other media, video copying, conversion and editing, an excellent music/audio package and a useful photo conversion, organizing and editing toolset that includes the ability to create multi-media presentation - slideshows or more sophisticated presentation that incorporate audio. In addition, the Learning Center section features presentations that encourage the users to build and sharpen their skills in specific areas - the users have the ability to vote/request specific topics to be included in the future.
At this price point, I found Creator 2010 to be more than adequate and, depending of the user's expectations, it may be the only 'media' tool one will ever need. My expectations for this package were:
- solid DVD/CD burn capabilities
- the ability to rip CDs
- a set of easy to use photo enhancement tools
- basic video playback and some editing
Potential users should understand that Roxio is and - as a user of an older version I can remember that - always was a rather demanding application when it comes to CPU utilization. This shouldn't be surprising when we are talking about live capture of data streams - audio or video - or converting/compressing large files, all done while integrating more than one software module. The complexity of interactions with the operating system and the various data channels and peripheral devices could and it did cause Roxio to misbehave from time to time but a little bit of patience and willing to learn and sometimes adapt to the software's quirks could translate into a happy user experience.
Everyone should also be aware that a package this inexpensive that attempts to do so much is not and cannot be at 'pro level' for any of the tasks that it performs. While I found Roxio's modules to be generally more than adequate when it comes to meeting MY needs, there is little doubt that dedicated high-end packages for any of the tasks attempted with Roxio can do 'more'. This being said, Roxio can do a lot IF one takes the time to actually learn it and learning takes place on a curve - in other words, no one should expect pro-level results after 5 minutes of Roxio. However, I WAS able to get some pretty cool things out of it after taking a little time to learn and explore it.
MY SETUP
It's probably useful to provide some information on what I tested Roxio with because my impression is that the hardware and the OS versions could sometimes make a difference between a good experience and a total failure. So, here it is:
- Roxio Creator 2010 SP2 - make sure to install the January 2010 service pack by selecting 'Check for updates' from the Help menu.
- Hardware:
These are the specs for my machine, with the last number showing Microsoft's Windows Experience Index score:
* Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz 5.3
* Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB 5.7
* Graphics ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series 4.7
* Gaming graphics 996 MB Total available graphics memory 4.7
* Primary hard disk 111GB Free (149GB Total) 5.8
I will upgrade my RAM to 4GB and the OS from Vista Enterprise (32-bit) to Windows 7 soon and will share my experience if different)
My monitor displays 1680x1050 32-bit color.
INSTALLATION - very good
Not much to say here. I took the precaution to reboot my computer before starting and I started the install with nothing running in the foreground. It proceeded smoothly and uneventfully. I believe it completed in about 15-20 minutes followed by another 5-10 minutes needed to run the SP1 upgrade dated November 2009. Since, SP2 was released in January 2010. It installed quickly.
As far as I can tell, Roxio did not install any spyware or malware and did not force me to get any third party products that would add toolbars to my browsers or force themselves as my primary search engine.
DATA COPY - Excellent
This is Roxio's bread and butter. As far as I know, it's always been good at burning CDs/DVDs and it's still the case with Creator 10. Roxio can easily create data disks or bootable disks, disk images or file copies and so on. In addition, you can create labels (did not test it myself but it's good to know that the capability exists).
Again, for the money, it doesn't get much better than this. No complains whatsoever and the user interface is good. As always, when it comes to 'burning' disks, make sure that you fully understand what Roxio is about to do before you give it the go-ahead.
VIDEO/MOVIES - Okay, but...
I may be a little unfair here but I subtracted 1 stars for Roxio's inability to handle copy-protected sources. I spend money to buy my DVDs and I believe that I should be trusted with me transferring my disks to a hard disk for viewing convenience but Roxio would not touch these. The only thing you can do with a copy-protected DVD is to watch it on Roxio's CinePlayer. This is NOT a big deal because there are other ways but it's worth knowing that Roxio can't help with transferring your property from one medium to another.
When it comes to your own video, Roxio is most helpful. It will get video directly from your camera, allow for some basic editing and convert it to the format of your choice - numerous formats are supported, from DVD to iPhone and PSP. Remember that Blu-ray support is extra.
Haven't tried it yet but I noticed that it's possible to produce a video and have Roxio auto-publish it on YouTube, provided that you have an account there.
MUSIC/AUDIO - Spectacular, it exceeded my expectations
This is my favorite set of tools. You can easily rip a CD to the highest MP3 bit rate supported by today's hardware (320 kbps), there is support for variable bit rate and for a long list of file formats other than MP3. The conversion is quick and everything comes out organized the way you want it - again, take some time to learn your software and good things will come out of it.
Roxio even supports the ability to digitize LPs and tapes. I didn't try this yet but there is a step-by-step on how to do it.
One most impressive feature is the ability to capture audio from your computer sound card. Practically what this means, is that you can open an Internet radio station such as Pandora (I mention Pandora because it's easy to make it play pretty much exactly what you want) on your browser and Roxio will capture everything that goes to your speakers and produce up to 190kbps if the output is an MP3 file - there are good settings worth experimenting before trying but this is very easy to set up. Once you stop recording - and this could be hours later (I tried that) Roxio will look at the file and, if set properly, break it into separate song tracks. It will then identify the tracks (artist/album/song) and it will place them into the proper folders with the proper file name. Even better, the commercials are removed and dumped into the 'unknown' folder for you to dispose. Based on about 12 hours of audio capture, the recognition rate is way over 90% and you can still go back to the unrecognized tracks and manually try to have them matched or you can name them yourself if that fails. For this feature and the rip capability alone, this Roxio package is worth the money.
Of course, you can burn CDs, MP3 CDs, create DVD music disks and, why not, make labels.
PHOTO - Excellent, in line with my expectations, sometimes exceeding
Roxio probably offers the 10% of those Adobe Photoshop features that most of us need and use 90% of the time and they are easy to use. Much more powerful than, let's say Picassa and quite adequate for most tasks. My untrained eye found outputs of the same photo 'auto' enhanced by Roxio and Photoshop to be identical.
In addition, Roxio supports the creation of slide shows, multi-media shows (incorporate music tracks) and so-called 'projects' where you can add your own text, clip art and apply various template to create goofy 'books' - take the time to experiment and learn and good things are likely to come out of it.
One more example of Roxio's power: with the 'Enhance multiple photos' option set to 'Autofix', Roxio fixed 820 large photos - 6MB or larger each - in less than one hour, all by itself. I posted one before/after example which shows, even at Amazon's low-res, the improvements of the 'after' picture - much sharper with more vibrant colors, set at the proper exposure, sharpness and and saturation level.
LEARNING CENTER - Okay but not impressed
The presentation included there are good and useful but I found the help facility in general somewhat lacking. Roxio is NOT a difficult to learn package but it does take SOME time to learn it and it could take a lot of time if anyone will use all the features.
INTEGRATION - Good, but...
Naturally, for a bundle of this scope, not everything is always smooth and seamless but modules integrate reasonably well. As a new user, tricks and ways learned to accomplish one task can't always be applied on other tasks but, let's think of a famous bundle known as Microsoft Office and determine how much do Word, Outlook, Excel, Project, PowerPoint and Visio have in common - not a lot. By THAT standard, Roxio is pretty well integrated.
MY RATING - 5 Stars
For a 'Swiss Army Knife' type of software, Roxio does an unexpected number of tasks well and some of them incredibly well (see my paragraph on capturing audio). Certainly some features are just average (photo handling) and some behaviors can be frustrating - and it's not always Roxio's fault (think operating system).
Overall, for this low price, Roxio's Creator 2010 is an exceptional value. Yes, it's true, it does not support Blu-ray but the extension is available separately and, in my view, it's only fair not to force the 95% of current users who lack a Blu-ray drive in their computers to pay for the the a Blu-ray capability they won't use - this may change in the future and Creator 2012 may have the Blu support as a standard.
Some 'stability' issues - Roxio occasionally freezing or locking files - seem to have disappeared after I applied the SP2 update so make sure you install it.
I will be rating Roxio Creator 2010 a 5-star overall (means "I love it" on Amazon's stars scale) because it's a package that I'll be using almost daily and, for what I saw so far, it will serve me well. It's possible that I'll be using Photoshop half of the time when dealing with photos and I will need something else to handle copy-protected DVDs and I will find Picassa the quicker solution but, now that I have Roxio installed, I know that I'd miss it if it wasn't running on my computer.
NOTES ON INSTALLATION/PERFORMANCE/STABILITY
Since Roxio seems to be running smoothly on my Vista Enterprise machine and installed without a problem, I thought I'd suggest some little things that maybe would help someone because, in my view, Roxio is way too good and useful not to be worth the effort of making it run if at all possible. So, here's what I'd suggest:
- install after a clean reboot - make sure that nothing else running during installation
- log in with an Admin-level account when installing or make the account that you use an Admin
- look at some over-aggressive anti-virus that may prevent Roxio from running or installing properly (I have MS Defender and Forefront running on my machine)
- Install the service packs and whatever other updates Roxio may have for the product.
- Roxio MAY conflict with certain apps. For example, it was very difficult (but not impossible) to capture audiostreams from Aluratek but Roxio works perfectly getting me music from Pandora running off Chrome.
- Roxio does demand a lot from your computer and it may not run well on slower machines - mine has a 2 x 2.4 GHz CPU, very fast RAM and HDD and decent graphics - it's still slow but it's pretty stable.
As far as it's features, I disagree with those complaining that it has 'too many' features and that should be a problem. All you get when you start Roxio is a menu interface. Those who feel that Roxio should not have anything to do with 'video' are free not to ever access that option. I understand that it would have been nice if the installation would offer not to install 'video' if one didn't want it but... this is a $60-80 piece of software not some thousand-dollar pro package and for that price, it over-delivers and it does it in spades.
Description of Roxio Creator 2010 [OLD VERSION]
Easily preserve and share photo, video and audio projects with Roxio Creator 2010. Built-in video tutorials make it easy and fun to get started.Easily preserve and share photo, video and audio projects with Roxio Creator 2010. Built-in video tutorials make it easy to get started. Burn and copy CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Edit video like a pro and create Hollywood-style DVDs. Digitize LPs and tapes. Create photo slideshows, cards, calendars and panoramas. Share creations online, on disc, mobile phone or iPod. New features let you burn and copy discs directly on your desktop; save web video for offline playback; archive your AVCHD camera video directly to disc, pause/resume during video conversion; and encode video up to 5X faster depending on your hardware.
New Design
Creator's Home is the launch pad for all video, photo, audio and burning projects. Creator automatically personalizes the main screen to put your most frequent tasks front and center. Click to enlarge.
New in this version
- New--5X faster video encoding with support for ATI Stream and NVIDIA CUDA technology
- New--Burn and copy discs directly on your desktop with Roxio Burn desktop widget
- New--Save web video for convenient offline playback on DVD, mobile phone or iPod
- New--Back up an entire camera of HD video directly on disc with AVCHD Archive
- New--Pause/resume video conversion, or schedule long projects for efficient use of your PC
- Improved--Capture music from streaming internet radio and automatically add title, artist and album info, then add to iTunes
Burning
Roxio delivers the industry's best and easiest tools for burning CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs. The new Roxio Burn desktop widget lets you easily drag and drop files for burning or copying right on your desktop. Click to enlarge.
Copying
Easily copy data, audio, photo or video CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. Copy an entire 9 GB DVD movie onto a standard 4.7 GB recordable DVD disc. Create custom DVD compilations. Convert video files for playback on the device of your choice. Click to enlarge.
Video
Edit movies and burn DVDs like a Pro--even if you're a beginner! Capture, burn and share video, even from HD camcorders. Save streaming web video for offline playback on DVD, mobile phone or iPod. Click to enlarge.
Music
No matter what kind of music you're into, Creator 2010 makes it easy to rip tunes from CDs, digitize and clean up LPs and tapes, and record Internet audio or any other music playing on your PC! Create personalized mixes and compilations for any occasion. Click to enlarge.
Photo
Easily enhance your photos from cameras and mobile phones--and create animated slideshows, greeting cards, panoramas and more. Click to enlarge.
Sharing
Enjoy your videos, photos and music mixes on CD, DVD, on your hi-def TV, on YouTube, or portable devices including iPhone, PSP and more. Click to enlarge.
Learn
Get to know Creator 2010 by watching it in action. Built-in video tutorials make it easy and fun to get started. Print step-by-step instructions for easy reference while you work on projects. Click to enlarge.
Key Features
Burning & Copying
- New--Burn and copy discs directly on your desktop with the new Roxio Burn desktop widget
- Copy DVD-Videos and convert DVDs for playback on iPod, iPhone, PSP and other devices or to video files.
- Convert other video file formats to DVD.
- Burn up to 50 GB of content onto one Blu-ray Disc
- Quickly back up data to CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray Disc, even networked drives
- Schedule unattended backups, and secure your discs with encryption and password protection
- Copy discs in a few clicks, including the latest Blu-ray discs
- Create virtual disc drives and load disc images
- Span large files and projects across multiple CDs or DVDs
- Burn a disc and create a disc image file at the same time
- Backup your favorite audio, movies or TV shows from any iPod to your PC
Video
- New--Save web video for convenient offline playback on DVD, mobile phone or iPod
- New--AVCHD Archive makes it simple to back up an entire camera of HD video directly to disc
- New--Pause/resume during video conversion, or schedule long projects for efficient use of your PC
- New--Accelerated video encoding with support for NVIDIA CUDA and ATI Stream technology
- Improved--Smart Encoding speeds up processing and preserves original video quality
- Capture standard and high-def video
- Plug in your digital camcorder and burn directly to DVD
- Edit video automatically
- Create video compilations to share on DVDs or portable devices
- Create movies with custom sound tracks, titles, transitions and effects using advanced video editing tools
- Add titles and scrolling credits to your video production
- Trim and cut video clips
- Timeline and storyboard views help you lay out your project
- Automatically fix video color, contrast and brightness
- Overlay multiple images, text or video clips; create picture-in-picture effects
- Quickly and easily upload video to YouTube
DVD Creation & Playback
- Improved--Author AVCHD video to standard DVDs as an affordable way to watch your HD video on your Blu-ray player
- New--Play Blu-ray Discs, including Hollywood movies, on your PC with the optional Blu-ray playback Plug-In
- Burn videos on Blu-ray Disc with the optional High-Def/Blu-ray Disc Plug-In
- Turn home videos into striking DVDs complete with animated menus and fully orchestrated music
- Create compilation DVD discs from DVD-Video, and other video file formats
- Produce Hollywood-style DVDs with motion menus and resizable buttons
- New standard and high-def DVD menu templates for all occasions
- Exercise full creative control over DVD menu features
- Control end-of-play action and link menu elements to specific files
- Add menu overlays--change size, orientation, transparency and more
Music
- Improved--Capture music from streaming internet radio and automatically add title, artist and album info, then add to iTunes
- Easily convert audiobook CDs for convenient playback on iPods and other portable devices, complete with chapters and bookmarks
- Create advanced playlist projects with crossfades, transitions and beatmatching between songs
- Edit your audio tracks--trim, join, add effects, create audio mashups
- Convert multiple audio tracks into a different format for payback on a broad variety of devices, in one step
- Simultaneously rip CDs from multiple drives
- Build and audio library by capturing Internet radio or any PC-based audio source directly from your desktop
- Convert audio and video files to your preferred format with the desktop gadget
- Rip tracks from audio CDs quickly, automatically and concurrently across multiple disc drives
- Digitize your analog LPs and cassettes, clean up noise and scratches, then add them to your MP3 player
- Automatically identify unknown music tracks--even those captured from the Internet or streaming music services, then add title, artist and genre information to tags & filenames
- Create DVD music discs for playback on DVD players, complete with 'smart navigation' via the remote control, with up to 50 hours Dolby Digital quality music on a single DVD.
- Span dozens of songs and compilations across multiple audio CDs
Photo
- Import photos from your digital camera into the Media Manager or directly into photo projects
- Organize thousands of photos & create custom views to find photos quickly
- Fix and enhance photos with powerful editing, effects and touch up tools
- Easily correct color and exposure
- Fix red eye, erase wrinkles and blemishes, crop and straighten photos
- Use a range of powerful editing brushes
- Adjust photos to suit your mobile device's screen resolution
- Add effects like transparency and edge fading, and change color tone
- Add attractive mats and frames to photos
- Auto-fix mobile phone photos
- Show off any picture on your mobile phone, full screen, without borders or bars
- Quickly fix and enhance multiple photos at once
- Create slideshows with pan & zoom animation to enjoy on PC or DVD disc
- Add a royalty-free soundtrack to your slideshows
- Stitch multiple photos together to create amazing panoramas
- Create photo albums, greeting cards, collages and calendars
- Get the best results when you print your photos using the Print Assistant
- Optimize your photos for sharing via email
Mobile Device Support
- Synchronize digital media from your PC to your mobile device
- Queue up files to transfer to your mobile device even if it's not connected to your PC
- Create a custom profile for your mobile phone
- Seamlessly integrate with Windows Vista media folders
- Easily transfer digital media from camera phone to PC via Bluetooth or USB cable
- Send audio mixes to iPod, PSP and other players to enjoy on the go
- Convert audio and video files to popular formats to play on mobile devices.
Disc Label Creation
- Create personalized disc labels, DVD case inserts and booklets
- Choose from professional-quality templates or create your own
- Add a photo index to your disc label or insert to locate your photos
- Calibrate your printer to take the guesswork out of printing disc labels
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