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Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 Suite

The trend with disc-burning software has been to include an increasing bloat of extra applets, and these latest entrants are no exception. Roxio is back with its Easy Media Creator 9 Suite.
Easy Media Creator 9 brings more new features, many of which also revolve around HD optical support. For a start, you can burn 25GB and 50GB Blu-ray data discs in Creator Classic, using the same interface as for CD or DVD. With Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 Suite you can create Blu-ray HD video discs in DVB or ATSC formats. The Quick Blu-ray Disc tool gives you a simple drag-and-drop interface.
Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 also contains a number of handy audio tools, such as Easy Audio Capture, which makes it simple to record whatever's coming out of your sound card, be it an internet radio station or streaming music service. Quick Music DVD lets you bring together a DVD's worth of music to create a compilation with a menu you can play on your DVD player through your TV. With up to 8.5GB of music, the result is a mix that will last your entire all-night party and beyond. The menus include a Shuffle option too. The new AutoMix tool uses a track you select to create a music compilation for you in the same style. The process involves ID tags and the Gracenote service, so keeping your tags accurate is essential for it to work. Results could be patchy, with smooth jazz and rambunctious rap music being suggested as similar in mood. Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 will go through your database and try to tag tracks for you, but this will be time consuming for a large library.
Video editing has been augmented by an improved standalone version of CineMagic. This is another automatic movie-creation system, and now includes the ability to choose which scenes you want to use. VideoWave has had support for up to 32 overlay tracks added, although about all you can do with them is create static picture-in-pictures. Automatic colour-correction and noise-removal tools have also been added, which worked adequately. Interestingly, VideoWave 9 already supports AVC HD as an output format. This is the video type about to arrive in Sony's forthcoming MPEG4-based HD camcorders.
These are just the highlights of Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 Suite. It also comes with tools for bringing video and photos to and from mobile phones and portable media devices like iPods and PSPs.
Roxio's Easy Media Creator 9 Suite is very comprehensive package for this cost! Version 9 further cements this lead.

Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 9 features:

Burning & Copying

Burn and copy data, audio, photo, video CDs and DVDs
Copy your music movies & photos to iPod, PSP or mobile phones
Create virtual disc drives and load disc images
Burn a disc and create a disc image file at the same time
Compress an entire 9 GB DVD video to a standard 4.7 GB DVD disc
Copy DVDs to double layer discs and preserve the original quality
Secure your data with 128-bit encryption and password-protection

Playlist

Send your music to a mobile phone, PSP, iPod or Windows® Media portable player
Capture streaming Internet radio and music instantly
Enjoy up to 50 hours of music on a DVD
Create custom ringtones for your mobile phone
Automatically add title, artist and genre tags to any audio track
Create smooth transitions across all the tracks on your audio CD
Span dozens of songs and compilations across multiple audio CDs
Convert music from LPs and tapes into MP3 or wma format in 3 steps
Combine audio tracks from CD, DVD or Internet radio
Rip CDs, create compilation audio or mp3 CDs

Photo & Video

Burn your TiVo shows to DVD and watch them anywhere
Create 16:9 DVD video productions and photo slideshows
Capture, import and edit High Definition (HD) video files
Create DivX HD discs with full DVD-like menus to watch on HDTV
Create high quality multi-image photo slideshows in HD or on DVD
Access files across all home PCs & play back from UPnP-compliant devices
Easily share your photos using peer-to-peer technology
Automatically organize thousands of photos and create custom views
Edit video like a pro with Timeline
Preview and only capture the scenes you want from a DV camcorder

DVD Creation

Create compilation DVDs from DVD-Video, DivX and WMV files
Copy DVD movies to DivX or WMV files and compress to CD or memory card
Produce DVDs with movable menus, resizable buttons and text credits
Exercise full creative control over DVD menu options
Text editing with motion, rotation and 3D controls
Menu-to-menu and title-to-menu transitions
Take footage from a camcorder to a DVD in one click with Plug-n-Burn
Control end-of-play action and link menu elements to specific files
Add a menu overlay - change size, orientation, transparency and more
Play Hollywood DVD movies and Video CDs on your PC with CinePlayer

Backup

Quickly restore a system without reinstalling Windows
Schedule full, partial and unattended backups
Back up everything from local or network PCs
Recover data and applications in case of a crash, system failure, or virus

DVD Playback

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