Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 Suite Software for Windows

Reviewed by: larrydr

Duration of ownership: 6 Months

Strengths: none

Weaknesses: Hard to install , Slide show and Cine Movie Magic will not work . Will not work in Vista . Will not work in 64 bit XP . Activation needs to be repeated every week. Needs to be re-installed on a regular basis .

Overall: ery poorPoor support from Roxio . Very poor , do not buy

Reviewed by: dixitn

Duration of ownership: 4 Months

Strengths: The product lists a impressive llist of audio/video functions.

Weaknesses: The doc for the apps and the support is 0 ona scale of 1 to 9. The support I recieved is the same. Their customer care centre actually closed a log on the same day I reported.They boast a live chat but do not say how to initiate it. They have my money and if they want to refund it I will gladly accept and buy another product THAT WORKS

Overall: poor. DO NOT BUY

Reviewed by: bobsimoneau

Duration of ownership: 6 Months

Strengths: Works well on XP

Weaknesses: Useless on Vista, no support

Overall: This program works great on an XP environment, but is almost useless on a Vista machine. Roxio has absolutely no customer support. They have been promising a Vista patch for months. I have used the product all the way back to Version 4, but I am now looking for a replacement product. I would not waste your money

Reviewed by: bsuds01

Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks

Overall: I had a terrible time getting it to work with Vista, when I finally did it was extremely slow loading pictures into a slide show. I got very frustrated and returned for a refund. I will be very unlikely to purchase any Roxio product again. I used creator 7 with XP for a number of years and was happy with that product, but not #9.

Reviewed by: fnickols

Duration of ownership: 2 Months

Overall: It sucks - don't buy

Reviewed by: Storbocker

Duration of ownership: 1 Week

Strengths: NONE !!

Weaknesses: Very grainy pictures when playing back on TV, EXTREMELY slow burning, The manual is useless

Overall: I bought this to upgrade from Pinnacle Instatnt Photoalbum that was at least 2 years old. I would NEVER recommend this product to ANYONE!

Reviewed by: MattHere

Strengths: Makes burning DVDs easy.

Weaknesses: None really

Overall: Creator really has more options than I need, but it works great. Burns relatively fast. The drag to disk applicatoin is sometimes annoying, but it isn't that bad. Good buy for the money.

Reviewed by: rolandJadryev

Strengths: Basic audio

Weaknesses: False advertisement - not all features are supported by vista. Proof 9.1 version: they REMOVED the ring tone feature...

Overall: A friend has issues with installation, gettting invalid CD key although for a valid SN, purchased to the cy. Support could not help!Because ringtones cannot be supported and installation is a draw of the luck, Skip this.

Reviewed by: tjwranch

Strengths: see below

Weaknesses: see below

Overall: I have had trouble getting the Easy media Creator 9 Suite to be compatible with Vista, contrary to company claims. I have also had trouble reaching a real person to help me with these problems. I'd love it if Roxio would contact me. outdooredge@hotmail.com

Reviewed by: BrentMsldn5

Strengths: Many media features for one price.

Weaknesses: Cropping feature on photo editing is confusing.

Overall: I am new to video editing, but wanted to get started. I bought this software after buying a digital video camcorder. When I loaded the software and brought up the video portion for the first time, it told me that my video card did not meet minimum requirements. Mine was an "integrated graphics" setup. If you have a computer that is a few years old, you better check your card. I have bought a new video card, but haven't installed it yet. The audio and photo portions of the suite are working fine. The cropping feature in photo editing is confusing and I haven't fully figured it out yet. That's the only complaint I have on Roxio.

Reviewed by: mrdjleder

Strengths: easy to use

Weaknesses: install has to be clean

Overall: Installation became a real pain when the first install failed, leaving remnants that were difficult to remove. Software would not recognize my key code untill I was able to download a fix from the Roxio site. At least they were responsive when I indicated my issue.