Product Description

New Roxio Creator 2009 is everything you need to easily create and share the stories of your life. The new design provides streamlined access to tips, tutorials, and tools. Beginners will find it easy to burn and copy discs, edit photos, video, and music.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #455 in Software
• Brand: Roxio
• Model: 242000FM
• Released on: 2008-09-13
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .80 pounds

Features

• The industry's best and easiest burning and copying tools for protecting your life stories, digital media and files
• Capture your videos shot with your standard, HD or AVCHD camcorder; transform your footage into a movie using Creator 2009's flexible video editing tools, perfect for all levels of ability and interest
• Make the most of your digital music with playlists for any occasion; Creator's new beat matching feature will automatically synchronize the rhythm from song to song
• Make every picture perfect with Creator's touch-up tools and effects; create fun cards, calendars and other digital stories to share and enjoy with family and friends
• Relive memories on DVD, on-the-go, or share with the world on YouTube or other popular destinations

Amazon.com
New Roxio Creator 2009 makes it easy for family members of every age and experience level to transform photos and video from digital cameras, camcorders, and camera phones into awesome photo and video stories to share with family and friends--safely online on your personal Roxio web page, on DVD or Blu-ray Disc, or on-the-go--on an iPod, mobile phone or another portable player.

New Design Innovative design provides one-click access to frequent projects and tools. Get inspired and optimize your 'digital life', read "how-to" articles on key features, or view video tutorials that will lead you step-by-step through your projects. Click to enlarge.

Burning Roxio delivers the industry's best and easiest burning and copying tools for protecting your life's stories, digital media and files. Creator includes enhanced multi-core processor support for the latest CPUs. Click to enlarge.

Video Capture your special moments with your standard definition, HD or AVCHD camcorder. Then easily create engaging stories using your photos, video and music. Creator supports standard and HD video in the most popular formats. Click to enlarge.

Keep your precious memories safe

Roxio delivers the industry's best and easiest burning and copying tools for protecting your life stories, digital media and files

Easily protect what you can't replace
Quickly back up your photos, video, music and irreplaceable data to CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray Disc, and even networked volumes/disks. Schedule unattended backups and secure your data with encryption and password protection

Copy everything, copy faster
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 DVD up to 60% faster.

Find disc files...even without the disc
Creator 2009 keeps you organized by automatically cataloging disc contents. Search for contents even when the discs are not in the drive.

Burn with confidence and ease
Roxio delivers the industry's best and easiest burning and copying tools for protecting your life's stories, digital media and files.

Edit movies and burn DVDs like a pro

Capture all the excitement and vivid colors of your videos shot with your standard, HD or AVCHD camcorder. Then, transform your footage into a splashy movie using Creator 2009's flexible video editing tools, perfect for all levels of ability and interest.

Movies magic--easy as 1-2-3
Create fun movies from your photos and videos automatically. Just pick the clips and pictures you want to use, select a theme and music, and let Creator assemble and produce a finished movie in minutes.

High definition without the high price
Burn up to 60 minutes* of HD video using your existing DVD burner and then play it on your HDTV using a Playstation¨ 3 and other Blu-ray players. Choose from dozens of standard and high-resolution menu styles, covering a wide range of themes from family activities to sports and more.

High definition without the high price
Burn up to 60 minutes* of HD video using your existing DVD burner and then play it on your HDTV using a Playstation¨ 3 and other Blu-ray players. Choose from dozens of standard and high-resolution menu styles, covering a wide range of themes from family activities to sports and more.

Free your HD videos from your camcorder
Capture your special moments with your standard, HD or AVCHD camcorder, then easily create engaging stories using your photos, video and music.

Give your life the soundtrack it deserves

Make the most of your digital music with hot playlists for any occasion. And, to keep everybody dancing, Creator's 2009 new beat matching feature will automatically synchronize the rhythm from song to song.

Enjoy CD audiobooks without the CDs
Convert audiobook CDs, complete with chapters and bookmarks, for easy playback on iTunes, iPod, iPhone and other portable players.

Create playlists to match any mood
Create hot music playlists for any mood or occasion. And, to keep everybody dancing, Creator's 2009 new beat matching feature will automatically synchronizes the rhythm from song to song.

Still love that old time rock and roll?
Digitize your classic analog LPs and tapes, and then automatically convert into a preferred file format for sending to your iPod or other mobile devices.

Name that tune...automatically
Creator automatically adds title, artist and genre information to your audio files-even those captured from Internet radio, LPs, tapes or streaming music services.

Music Give your life the soundtrack it deserves with hot playlists for any occasion. And, to keep everybody dancing, Creator's 2009 new beat matching technology will automatically synchronize cross fades and transitions to be perfectly in sync from song to song. Click to enlarge.

Photo Combine today's photos and yesterday's memories into impressive gifts using your own photos. Create fun calendars, greeting cards, collages and other digital stories to share and enjoy with family and friends. Click to enlarge.

Sharing Easily share the stories of your life with relatives and close friends. Relive those special moments on DVD in the comfort of your living room, transfer to iPod or other portable player for on-the-go enjoyment, or share with the world on YouTube or other popular sharing destinations. Click to enlarge.

Turn snapshots into fun keepsakes

Make every picture perfect with Creator's touch-up tools and effects. Combine today's photos and yesterday's memories into fun cards, calendars and other digital stories to share and enjoy with family and friends.

Unforgettable cards and calendars made easy
Turn today's photos and yesterday's memories into one-of-a-kind greeting cards, calendars, collages and more.

Create your stories online in minutes
Simply select your photos and add professionally-designed styles, themes, fun effects, animated graphics, and a musical soundtrack. Securely share your online stories on Roxio private web page.

Make every picture perfect
Make the most of every picture with Creator's touch-up tools and effects. Correct color and exposure, fix red-eye, erase wrinkles and blemishes, crop and straighten photos.

Put every photo at your fingertips
A picture is worth a thousand words, if you can find it. Tag, assign keywords and instantly find your favorite photos.

Share a lifetime of memories

Easily share the stories of your life with relatives and friends both near and far. Relive memories in the comfort of your living room, on DVD, on-the-go, or share with the world on YouTube or other popular destinations. The new Roxio Online service is now integrated into Creator 2009, so you can create and share basic photo stories right within the application!

Enjoy in the comfort of your living room
Relive your favorite events and travels with family and friends from the comfort of your living room. Create DVDs and Blu-ray Discs*, or, get your online photo stories on professional-quality DVDs.

Take your shows on the road
View your special events and memories on your iPod, iPhone or other portable player to enjoy virtually anywhere.

Share online with privacy and security
Choose from public or private sharing options on your FREE Roxio web page and only share your photos with the people you invite to see them.

Share with the world
What have you been up to lately? Let the whole world know by posting your photo diary to YouTube or other popular online sharing destinations.

Key Features

Burning & Copying

• New! Up to 60% faster DVD conversion; compress an entire 9 GB DVD video to fit on a standard 4.7 GB DVD disc
• Burn up to 50 GB of content on to one Blu-ray Disc
• Quickly back up to CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray Disc, even networked volumes/disks
• Schedule unattended backups, and even 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
• Stay organized by cataloging disc contents--search for disc content even when the discs are not in the drive
• 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! Import video from high-def AVCHD camcorders
• New! Easily convert video, audio and now photos to your preferred formats right from your desktop, and send to portable devices
• Automatically create fun video stories from your photos, videos and music
• 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
• Capture and edit HD video
• Quickly and easily upload video to YouTube

DVD Creation

• New! Burn up to 60 minutes* of high-def video on standard DVDs using your existing DVD burner
• Turn your home videos into striking DVDs complete with animated menus and fully orchestrated music
• Create compilation DVDs from DVD-Video, DivX and WMV files
• Produce Hollywood-style DVDs with motion menus and resizable buttons
• Enjoy stunning new standard and high-def DVD menu styles for all occasions
• Exercise full creative control over DVD menu options
• Go from camera to DVD in a few clicks with Plug & Burn--the fastest way to create a DVD from your camcorder video
• Control end-of-play action and link menu elements to specific files
• Add a menu overlay--change size, orientation, transparency and more
• Play any VCD, SVC or DVD-Video disc including Hollywood DVDs
  *Actual recording time varies depending on video content and DVD capacity.

Music

• New! Easily convert audiobook CDs for convenient playback on iPods¨ and other portable devices complete with chapters and bookmarks
• New! Create smooth party mixes with synchronized beat matching between tracks
• New! Auto-trim silence in recorded music tracks to eliminate annoying gaps
• Create music playlists with cross-fades and export to portable devices
• Import or capture music from virtually any source, including CDs, LPs, tapes, and the internet
• 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 an 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 music from CDs or concert DVDs*
• Use AutoMix to create the perfect playlist based on a single "seed" song
• Digitize your analog LPs and cassettes to add them to your MP3 player
• Automatically add title, artist and genre information to your music tracks--even those captured from Internet radio or streaming music services
• Span dozens of songs and compilations across multiple audio CDs
  *Does not rip or copy encrypted or copy protected content

Photo

• Organize thousands of photos & create custom views to find photos quickly
• Turn your photos into one-of-a-kind calendars, greeting cards, collages, and more
• Create dazzling standard or high definition slideshow photo stories
• Add a royalty-free soundtrack to your slideshows
• Easily correct color and exposure
• Fix red eye, erase wrinkles and blemishes, crop and straighten photos
• Use powerful editing brushes
• Edit multiple images and layers at the same time
• Adjust photos to match 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 your camera phone photos
• Show off any picture on your mobile phone, full screen, without borders or bars

Mobile

• 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 most popular 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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Customer Reviews

Worst Software Ever
I've come across some awful and expensive software (like Cakewalk 6~9), but this one takes the cake. It's an intrusive, clunky, resource hog which wouldn't work correctly if the hand of god glided over it.

Right now, it's 12:41AM and I've been trying for the past 8 hours to get MyDVD (Part of this Roxio package) to make a DVD of a vacation I recently took. I'm an IT professional, and I was absolutely baffled on GUI on these interfaces. The only consistency here is that every interface has it's own flavor of 'clunk' to it.

INTERFACE BUGS...
For instance, I'm trying to setup the menu and sub-menus; And, while I'm working it's actually flaking out and moving the graphical elements all over the page. I've had to work on the same menu now 20 times. Not to mention, you must click on the sub-menu icon to navigate to it. But when you attempt to click on it, it moves out of position in the page. Which means if you don't like the new position...too bad...because you're going to have to move the sub-menu graphic back to your original strategic location.

Some of the setup menu's for the objects in MyDVD don't work, or have bugs. For instance, there's a color palette fill in one of the sub-menu's which doesn't work.

I can go on and on about all the interface bugs throughout Roxio 2009, but I'm going to spare that chapter and go to the next.

RESOURCE HOG AND CUMBERSOME...
This software is 2gigs+ out of the box. Which means when you install it, you'll probably be left with 2kb of hard drive space left. They could have saved SOME real space had they used the DIALOG boxes that comes with Windows XP & Vista. But no, Roxio had to be different and create new, cumbersome, confusing, over elaborate dialog boxes. This obviously means that whatever you're doing in the new dialog boxes will take 3 times longer. My experience has been that they're clunky, taking sometimes 5~10 seconds to perform a refresh or task in the Roxio dialogs.

UPON INSTALLATION...
Roxio must have designed this software with the idea that you'll never need to have or install other software. Because the installation package loads up many large programs, WHICH MANY after installation LOAD WITH WINDOWS. I'm baffled, as I look at the list of all the new Roxio related programs in Windows Task Manager. Not to mention, ZoneAlarm is prompting me every 10 seconds with some resource it's trying to mess with...or the FACT THAT IT'S TRYING TO ACCESS THE INTERNET constantly. Here's a another snare in the Roxio sucker net...it would be nice if I could choose the Roxio programs I WANT TO INSTALL, versus Roxio INSTALLING EVERYTHING ON MY COMPUTER!!

As you can see in my review... I'm furious. I'm going to make a recommendation here... DON'T BUY THIS SOFTWARE!!! Treat the positive ratings with a grain of salt...because they're probably from the Roxio Sales and Programming staff.

I bought Roxio 2009 Ultimate, but I figured I'd tell you guys who wanted to spend $49 instead of $99.

DON'T BUY THIS SOFTWARE!!!

Faster burning, Better stability with Vista
Had Creator 8 and it worked well enough. Like many programs there are advancements and I had to decide when to upgrade. Got Vista now so it was the right time to get the latest Creator version. I haven't had it long but here are some observations.

- Version 8 didn't always work with Vista. Creator 2009 is stable with everything I've tried. The interface is a lot better. I have accidently closed the whole program in 8 but with 2009 the program menu remains on the side while a new window opens up for the current program. A clunky explanation but in short the menu arrangement is more efficient. The apps are working faster too. Maybe that's because Vista has been around long enough for programmers to utilize the OS better than in the beginning.

- It can handle HD video. This should now be required for any video program since digital standards are changing. That takes care of my recordings and camcorder.

- Making music cds & dvds with stereo sound takes a lot of time. Using 2009 there is a noticeable speed up time in burning the disks. I thought the burning speed limit was mostly due to the burner speed, but 2009 proved me wrong. Somehow the program can speed up the process. That alone is worth getting.

- There's an audio book ipod converter which wasn't even in ver. 8. It has bookmarks and chapters. Makes sense since no one finishes a book in one session. I don't have many audio books but I think I'll get more since I won't have to lug my cd player around.

Installation Hell
I have Vista Home Premium (64bit version) and I have spent hours trying to install this product. I am an IT helpdesk tech -- this shouldn't be hard. I spent the entire day following instructions sent to me by Roxio support, and the program still will not run. If you want phone support it is $1.89 a minute. The install and uninstall processes take over 15 minutes each time. I rue the day I bought this product. I should not have to pay to get proper support in order to install a program that cost $80.00. I used to be a Roxio fan. Never again.