Why I buy this one ?
- Includes PhotoSuite 7, VideoWave 7, Napster 2.0, and Easy CD & DVD Creator
- Organize with Media Manager; password-protect and encrypt private data
- Transform still photos with stunning pan and zoom effects
- Take complete control of video with advanced timeline editing tools
- Produce professional-looking VCDs, SVCDs, or DVDs

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What our customer's say!

"Not Useful", I bought this product to burn CD's (using CD-R disks). It didn't work for me. After a lot of research I discovered (from Microsoft) that CD's burn better at a slower speed, so I set my system to 48X and it worked. Tech support from Roxio was confusing, as they supply lots of (for me) useless documentation. I could have saved my money, and used Windows or any AT&T Yahoo! CD burners.

"The video editing software is absolute garbage", The video editing part of this software is completely useless. It didn't come with a manual and I ended up buying on my own a book about how to use it. It hasn't made a difference. The software is completely uncooperative. My computer more than meets the minimum requirements for running the program. If you bought this software for the video editing, I recommend using the disc as a drinks coaster and buying something else.

"Good features, but totally unstable", The features of the program are great, but it crashes WAY too much. My computer system is fully adequate for video editing, so that is not the problem. I've gotten to the point where I save my work literally every minute for fear that it will crash.

"Solid Media Authoring Program for the Price", I bought this product based on my research of users opinions and found it has lived up to their high opinions. I have boxes of family photos as well as numerous camcorder tapes of family events. I wanted an easy comprehensive program that would let me arrange photos and video clips, add music and burn on a DVD. This program does it all and more. It may not do everything extremely well, but for the price, well enough to put out an impressive DVD. After about two hours of getting familiar with the program, I was able to create a DVD that had 35 pictures and a video clip with background music - stunning results. I played the DVD on several different brands of DVD players and had no problems. Looks great on TV. I've had no problems running the program on my computer - I'm running this on a Pentium IV 2.9 GHz, 1 gig ram and 200 GB ram HD. Since I am a beginner/weekend hobbyist, this suites my purpose of sharing pictures with family - I'm finding much better to share on DVD than paper photos. For an all-in-one package at this price, it does the job very well and I would recommend it.

"After trouble-free year, AUDIO PROBLEMS!", The video-editing component of this package, Video Wave, worked great for me for about a year, but it has recently turned into a NIGHTMARE! The audio is anywhere between 2 and 4 seconds out of sync with the video, and after trying everything I'm convinced that its a problem with the code. A quick product search will show others who have had similar problems. I would STAY AWAY!

Read this reviews before You buy...

"The Good and the Bad", I have to give it 3 stars because they did succeed in putting a lot of cool stuff into one package. But it can be a very aggravating program to work in.

Here are the good things: The photo editing piece is very, very good -- it does an excellent job of fixing exposure and color, and gives you lots of special effects. The disc copier is nice because it will break up files for you, so if it's going to spread over 4 CDs, you can just kick it off and come in every now and then to feed it a new CD. Very nice. It has a lot of video-editing perks, although they can be temperamental. The scene detection is a nice touch and it seems to work fairly well.

The bad:
The DVD authoring, IMO, is POOR. Gives you very little control, audio is often out of synch with the video, marking chapters is a failed exercise in frustration. If this is why you are buying this product, stop right here! Do not get it, trust me. Maybe the 7.5 version is better but I'm not hopeful -- but at the very least, stay away from 7.0 for this feature. It is aggravating at best.

Despite all of the things I like about this product, I have to say that in the year+ that I've used this product it has given me nothing but grief. This is a perfect example of how important the small details are. This product was, in my opinion, rushed to market with a lot of bugs in it. Some have been fixed and others have been ignored. Just a few examples of little annoyances that sound silly but trust me, after the 100th time you will be aggravated: The program closes unexpectedly and you lose your work. It will sometimes decide to gray out all the menu options so you have to shut down in order to save what you were working on. It doesn't remember any custom settings even though it says it has saved them. It always defaults to their chosen location ie "My Pictures" and gives you no quick shortcut to get to where you want or option to change the default -- so it's about a 5-click process each time to get to the folder you want. Opening a production in VideoWave gives you a smaller window with the most recent files, you then have to browse to find the file you want and it adds it to the list (why not just open it directly??) then you have to click it AGAIN from the list, then hit "ok". It doesn't save your default save picture quality, so again it is a 4-click process each and every time you save a photo if you want it saved at the highest quality... defaults to 7/10 I don't know why.

The bottom line is, if you want a cost-effective way to get a lot of different features you might be happy with this. But if you are an intermediate to advanced user who wants a very robuts DVD authoring program, you're better off buying a piece of software that focuses on that.

"Crap! Crap! Crap!!", This product worked for about 2 months, after that it went into the "Dumper!" I cannot get it to copy any CD's. I will copy the CD and then when you want to burn a copy, NOTHING! I have tried over and over to no avail. I just waste time and become frustrated. After you spend money buying this crap they want to charge you $35 or $40 to give you support, now that's real "BULLCRAP! Don't waste money on this junk, it's really not worth it.

"Not for Beginners", I used previous Roxio products and wanted software to start converting my Hi-8 video to DVD and better editing software for digital images. Also wanted to make some DVDs that combined photos, music and film clips.

I found that after hours of work I had burned a DVD that had no sound and horrible quality vido. Using this software is not easy without someone to teach you what to do. Their previous, earlier versions were much easier to use.

I also find that the "Photo Doctor" often highly distorts photos and any adjustments for exposure and saturation are better manually tweeked.

I find that I'm only using a tiny part of this software, because I can't figure out all the rest. Even burning CDs has proven a challenge. Very few templates for CD labels and I've yet to find a list of songs that would actually fit in the template space provided.

"Adequate, at best.", I was the previous owner of Roxio products and was satisfied. This piece of software is, at best, adequate for what it promises. Out of the box, it cannot handle dvr-ms files the format used by Microsoft Windows Media center. Roxio has an update that is supposed to be able to handle dvr-ms files, along with other fixes, but the update has caused the software to freeze numerous times, until I eventually uninstalled it and reinstalled just the original version.

It's nice to have all the media capabilities together but you just be patient with this software.

PS: Customer service is awful.

"Keep looking...", I received the Basic edition bundled with a very nice Plextor burner. Most of my experience so far has been with the EMC 7 Capture function.

The bundle itself is truly bloatware, and loads tons of stuff that you will never use. It would be nice if places like Roxio would add a one-line description of each useless package's function, with the option to install or not after reading.

Capture is the kind of program designed to be "easy", meaning you never really know what is happening. It does (mostly) capture video. However, it will hang periodically with cryptic messages, to which the only option is click "OK". Then it starts over from the beginning.

The Smartscan feature would theoretically be great (you must make sure your DV camera supports this function). My cam (PV-GS200) does. However, the purpose of Smartscan is to fast-forward looking for scene codes on the tape, to let you preselect the scenes you want to capture. Unfortunately, it gets lost, a lot. Once Capture has lost its place, the only option is to start back over at the beginning of the tape. It will invariably hang at the same places, so after wasting a LOT of time and over-exercising the fragile tape, you will give up and just Capture the whole damned tape (have a very big hard drive handy).

Now that you're capturing the full tape, it will hang in other places. It hates when you have fast-forwarded the tape in camera, because that causes a black frame that it cannot seem to move past. Eventually, you will find that the best option is to manually move past the spot with the controls on your camera, then start capturing from there... but you will never really know what the software is doing until its over.

Never knowing what the program is doing, and having neither options nor meaningful Help when difficulties are encountered, is the recurring theme of this whole software suite. The only Help you will get from Roxio is their user forum (which is pretty good); otherwise, their idea of support is to try to get you to buy an upgrade version.

I believe much of this stems from trying to make something which is still inherently complex (video capture) overly simple for some perceived grandparental audience. The problem with all the friendly screens is that they blithely assume nothing will fail. When problems inevitably arise, there is no recovery other than Start Over. You will never know where you are in a tape, where your restart begins, what happened to the video you may or may not have already captured, or what to do to manually jumpstart a stalled capture.

The same look and similar issues were thoughtfully embedded in the Videowave authoring suite, although I have not had much experience with it, given that I am spending most of my time capturing and recapturing (I think).

I am not sophisticated enough to recommend something else yet, but there has to be something better and I would recommend you find it instead of anything from Roxio. Their whole progression as a software megabundler has been toward sales and away from functionality (and support) and it is really a shame that a first-class outfit like Plextor had to "partner" with them.