Why I buy this one ?
- Author and burn professional-quality DVDs, VCDs, or SVCDs
- Add music, transitions, special effects, text credits, and sound
- SmartScan saves time and space; captures selected scenes only
- Advanced Timeline tools support up to 14 tracks and in-place editing
- CineMagic for a polished music video complete with transitions

What our customer's say!

"GREAT EDITING SYSTEM ", This is a great editing system, it's tough to get the hang of at first but once you get the routine down it works great. PC Magazine gave this an above average rating...I agree completely.

"Worthless!", I purchased videowave 7 pro and the cd will not even install (out of the retail box) ... get a 'isl7.tmp error' on multiple drives / different PC's, after rebooting, etc.. trying to get ahold of their customer-no-service is a real joke! Even the required 'ask Roxanne' doesn't offer this product in the REQUIRED product selection which you MUST CHOOSE ONE. I only wish I'd read these reviews before purchasing.

"This program is useless b/c of Audio Sync problems...", I had earlier versions of this program. This version has many more features than the earlier version and is extrememly easy to use. I was even able to make one full video and burn it to DVD. However, on my second attempt to make a video I ran into the audio sync problem. This is when you play video but the audio is either ahead or behind the video. When I play the video clips that I have captured in the preview screen and on my computer they are fine. The audio and the video are in perfect sync. However, when they are added to the storyline the audio is off. I have been on the help website and there are thousands of people that have had this same problem. The solutions that people are posting are extreme. I am not willing to rework my computer so that this program will work on it, especially since the program worked fine last week and now it is now working. My system is great, the problem is the software, not my computer. I am going to try Adode's Premiere video editing software. I have heard good things about it from the other people having trouble on the Videowave forums.

Trust me, don't waste your money and time learing to use a program only to have it stop working!

"After trouble-free year, AUDIO PROBLEMS!", I thought this was a dream program, and it woked well for about a year. But for the last two videos I have shot, the audio has been anywhere between 2 and 4 seconds out of sync with the video. Extremely frustrating, and I have not made any progree fixing it. I'd buy something else.

"Not for the average person", I bought this software because it was cheap and the "box" showed all these features that i needed! Plus, it said that if help is needed, you will get it. HOWEVER, once i started using the software, i noticed it had lotts of bugs and it took for ever to make a DVD. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM I HAD WAS THAT THE SOUND AND VIDEO DID'NT GO. For example, i videotaped my brothers football game and the sound of the play STARTED BEFORE THE PLAY ITSELF. I went to support for roxio and there help sucked! I would not buy this....AT ALL. Spend your money on something better even if you have to pay $40 more dollars!

I suggest: Power Director 4 =$80 or Adobe Premeire Elements = $100

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Video Wave is USELESS", Video Wave Problems:


1. Installation: Here is what I sent to ROXIO about my installation problems.
When installed my system won't reboot. I had to run in safe mode and use the last known configuration to get it to boot. I get the update hoping that will solve the problem. No. First during the install I get a message saying something like "Can't start the InstallShield script". It goes on any way. Again I have to start in safe mode. Because of this I have lost configuration for other programs and at this point I have no idea what effect it will have on them. Video Wave blows up in the middle of saving a movie which wastes time and work. Is there a fix for these problems? Thanks, Richard Hume

2. I received more than one response. One told me to get all of the updates for Easy Media Creator 7. The next one told me to disable everything that starts with Windows! Never was Video Creator 7 mentioned! Everything referred to Easy Media Creator 7.

3. I called technical support and they gave me the normal excuse that the problem is caused by the virus scanner. Disable that and if it still does not work call back. As always it made no difference. I called back and after 35
minutes of bad music I hung up. To be honest I really doubt that they have any idea how to solve the problems. I keep looking for an update but there isn't one. Maybe one will come along sometime but I certainly wouldn't count on it. This is software that never should have been released!

4. Video Wave has no idea that I have a CD or DVD drive on my computer. I use Nero to create the DVD. If Video Waves DVD writer software is no better than Video Wave it is worthless. Most likely it is Easy CD of an offshoot from it. If so it is a piece of junk. If you are using Easy CD throw it away and
get Nero. Your problems will disappear.

Here are just a few of the problems found while using this piece of junk.

1. The monitor sizes are so small it is VERY difficult to edit a video. There is no way that I can find to enlarge them. It is also absolutely unbelievable that the monitor size for changing brightness, contrast, colors... is much larger than in any other mode. RIDICULOUS!

2. When editing clips and selecting start and end points the slider is so small that it is completely useless.

3. Those wheels in editing modes are cute but have no real value. A better slider is what is needed.

4. There is no way to stop rewind unless you double click the play button. That does not serve any purpose while editing the move. Because the slider is useless in editing modes rewind would be the best alternative but you can't stop the movie where you want to. Additionally the cursor becomes so slow and
jerky it is very difficult to get the cursor on the play button. Because a quick double click (play, pause) is required to stop the video the second click is often ignored which makes the feature useless.

5. When looking for a scene in storyline or timeline modes it is not possible to know which scene you are at. Every scene is marked with the production name. I already know that, I want to know which scene it is.

6. Occasionally VideoWave will not create clips in formats other than WMV. The only solution I can find is to first save the entire movie in WMV format so it is editable. A huge waste of time and lost quality.

7. Because it is necessary to save the production after every edit so it is not necessary to re-edit the movie after the program blows up it would be nice if ctrl-s would work like it does in every other windows program that I know about.

8. It is impossible to split a clip at more than one place. Why, especially because in some cases VideoWave is unable to create scenes correctly in the first place.

9. Scene detection? This one is just weird. It makes little difference where the sensitivity is set. I have a 15 minute movie that will only produce 10 scenes at 50 and 21 scenes at 100. At 100 some of the scenes are actually longer! To get to 21 scenes it created several very short scenes that are virtually identical, which is useless!

10. If start and end points are set in a scene and you want to re-edit them there is no way to do it. If I use reset start or end point it moves to the start or end of the movie, not the clip!!!! Now you have the whole movie inserted in the middle of your movie. As far as I can tell you have 2 choices. 1 - Try to find the spot in the whole movie where you want the start or end point, not possible with a short clip. 2 - Delete the clip, which is now the whole movie and re-insert the clip that was deleted. Because there is no way to know which clip was deleted it is very difficult to find the clip you want to re-insert.

11. Detecting scenes in the manual mode: This is the best joke of all. The only options available are the slider (thanks at least for omitting the wheel!), play, move one frame, move to start or end of the movie, not the scene! If any of these functions are used (except start and end) you have no
idea which scene you are in, or even where you are in the entire movie! USELESS! The slider only works for the entire movie and not the scene you are working on. If you are working on a long movie a very small move of the slider will jump several scenes.

12. Keyboard: The keyboard does not do much in VideoWave. It is far easier to edit with the keyboard than the mouse, especially when the sliders can't be used because the useful space on the slider is to small to be usable.

13. The more I use it the slower it gets. It often goes off somewhere for minutes with no indication that it is doing anything at all! There is no way to know if it is actually doing something or if it has just crashed. The best thing to do is to go have lunch and then check if is working. You can also start the task manager and select the performance tab. If 100% of the CPU is in use then Video Wave is probably still hacking away at something. If not and it won't respond to anything tell Task Manager to end the task. You have just
lost all of your work again.

14. I am quite sure there are many more problems but I am going to stop wasting my time on it.

15. There is no doubt that this thing is the poorest software design I have seen in 30 years of home computers. Even if the thing worked the design is so bad it would be useless anyway.

16. Professional? Not a chance. Maybe the proper word is theft because that is exactly what ROXIO is doing when they take your money.


"Videowave 7 - Not Responding - NO SUPPORT", The program seemed to work fine for a while, but the more I used it, I began having problems with the program not responding. The more I used it, the more this problem occurred, and now I am not able to even open a file with it, while several other similar programs I have (not made by roxio) work just fine. Uninstalls, and reinstalls do not help. Whatsmore, the support from roxio, works as well as the program, which is not at all. The program is absolutely useless to me, and roxio could care less. Buyer BEWARE!

"ALL IN ONE", I have been doing video editing for about 6 years now. I have tryed shareware, freeware and retail video editors of all shapes and sizes. I am use to jumping between 3-4 diffrent editors to get all the effects, transitions and video color/brightness adjustments I need. Then I tryed ViedoWave 7 pro. This sucker has it all. I can adjust the color/brightness and contrast of each individual video clip. Remove sound from clips or add my owen naration and music. Make pans and zooms on still images. And this version has more FUN transitions to play with.

You will deffinitly need a Pentium 3 (i would recomend a Pentium 4) processor with at leatst 512 of RAM to run this puppy. It takes alot of power... but for a low priced video editor it HAS ALOT OF POWER.

not sure what the other guys issue was, but compaired to Pinnicle studio which crashed all the time and Ulead this product is great.

michelle
family music video maker
computer geek :o)~

"It is sad", Videowave 7 is an extremly difficult program to use.

The company appears to be deceptive in its marketing by leading a customer to believe that they can be contacted by e-mail with help questions. When a question is sent to the company they send back a form response to look at there website.

The program that is supposed to help you learn is beyond difficult. It makes no sense and tells very little.

They also pretend to have a video training program that comes to assist the customer. This tells almost nothing and just stops.

I was going to contact the company but I am sure they are well aware. How could they not be? Someone that they know must have tried to use the program.

Their success in sales may have more to do with customers thinking that they alone are having such a difficult time.

If you would like an experience in frustration have fun.

David Morris, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing