Easy CD & DVD Creator 6

In May I purchased a MiniDV Camcorder and wanted to make DVDs of my home movies. I purchase Easy CD & DVD Creator because it seemed to have all the features I wanted, and none of the features I didnt want. I wanted a simple video capturing utility, a simple video editing tool, and the ability to create menus on my DVDs. I am able to easily download my video from my camera (via Firewire), edit my scenes, and create a Themed Menu very easily. I recently came back from a family vacation and had over two hours of video and nearly 200 digital pictures. I used Easy CD & DVD to create a DVD that not only included my edited video, but a slide show of my pictures set to music. The quality was excellent, and I am very happy with the results.

I too read all the negative reviews on this product but decided to go ahead with trying it anyway. I have the home edition of Windows XP and it works just fine on mine. I dont use the photosuite or dvd builder, I only needed a burner and something to make my own music discs. I had versions 4 and 5 before and I figured this one could not be as bad as was written. But thats just my experience, Im sure the other people had the problems they say. Its up to each person to decide I guess.

Well, my trials with Easy CD/DVD 6 started with consistent lockups while loading on my Windows 2000 machines. A reboot would fix it, yet sometimes it would persist. Roxio had no solutions for this and claimed it must have been another program running at the same time. Once I could get it running I attempted to burn a few DVDs, strangely enough it showed some DVD-RW disks as 1x and some as 2x off the same spindle. (Not very promising). Beyond that It continuously coughed up Buffer Underrun errors, when previous software had never given me error (Im using a DRU-500 drive). The Underruns literally wasted the RW disks I was using, Im hoping another program will be able to recover them, Easy CD shows disk unusable. And I am lead to believe it *IS* software related since its happened now with 3 different media brands. Testing on my second PC running Windows 98 with the same Firewire DRU-500 drive produced the same results (tho the software did load properly). All in all I recommend a strong do not buy rating to Roxios newest product.

This is a great product and worth your money. Though it has a few problems. 1. In Audio Central-it makes to many duplicates of audio when changing the kbps or when retriving it from other media software. You can delete it, but it takes forever. 2. Make sure you send in [any] rebate immediatly... 3. DVD Creator needs more features but still is 5 stars for ease of use. Overall, i recommend this product for household media-not steven spielberg films...

I have many other software products that let me work with music creation and collection, so the main reason I bought Easy CD & DVD Creator was for its DVD tools. I have many VHS tapes which are family movie compilations, some dating back to Super 8 days. I was very eager to put these all on DVD for my family. The series of problems I had with this process was simply amazing. The software didnt have fast forward or rewind buttons. Importing often failed even though the movie or sound files were perfectly usable by every other software package on my system. The software crashed numerous times. I tried to move the project onto another system to see if it would be any better, and the move process required me to start again from scratch. I finally got my DVD put together the way I wanted it and started to write. It crashed. I tried to simply write an image to disk. It crashed. The Roxio message boards are full of complaints from people with the same problem. I sent an email to their tech support. No answer. If you call in you pay for a toll call - plus pay $35 on top of that in order for them to help you figure out why their software is crashing. This software should never have been released in the buggy state it is in. It is incredible how much money I have spent for software that has wasted days of my time and simply does not work.

I have used Easy CD Creator since version 4 as well as Nero. Version 6 installed with no problem with my Windows XP Service Pack 1. It works with both the Lite-on 52x24x52 as well as my Pioneer DVR-105. I like this product better than the Nero 5.5 so far.

I used many, many different software packages, but from hundreds this is by far worse. It doesnt do anything it promises on the box, its not intuitive at all, and everything you expect to do automaticaly does totaly wrong. All the menues are on the weird places, scatered, and options and you never know what you are supposed to do next. It has ZERO help, and it doesnt even react if you tell it too burn lets say 5 Gbs of staff. There is almost no warnings at all, and when you ask it to checks anything,most of the times just hangs, so that you have to reset machine, task manager cant stop it... It also locked my cd player, so I had to disconnect CD, restart machine, shutdown and connect it again... And to sumerise - it doesnt work. Plus the upgrade is so expensive, dont be mad to buy this. For the same money you can buy buy some other product, which actually works. Its maybe good marketing, and promises a lot, but this product doesnt deserve even one star... If this was a freeware, it would NOT be worth downloading... Newer version (7) is HUGE improvement, but still do shop around first.

Received Easy CD&DVD Creator6 Platinum for Christmas because I had really liked version 4. Have not been able to get a complete install on it to date, and the parts that did install didnt function right. Went to Roxios support site & found that many purchasers had same[and many other]problems. Some even had to restore their PC. Sent Emails to their tech support and received one answer so far. It took 11 DAYS for them to answer, and it was just a bunch of babble,nothing to do with the problem. I have uninstalled&deleted everything I can find related to it on my PC, and thrown the blasted thing away. I will NEVER buy another ROXIO product again.

I lost my entire Windows XP installation because upon reboot after installing this I could not get past the Welcome screen. I followed all the instructions posted at the Roxio website, and none of them fixed the problem. Luckly, I was able to remove the laptop hard drive and mount it in another PC running XP and get the data off it, but I never did get it to boot until I reinstalled. (The Windows XP Repair process couldnt even reboot the machine at the proper point and continue...) My suggestion is to find another product, NOT one by Roxio. EZ-CD Creator 4 was an excellent product... 5 and 6 have been nothing but problems from almost everyone I have heard install them. (System instabilities, etc) You have been warned.

After mucho Hype I made a terrible assumption that spending big bucks on a recording suite that it would include most features as other similiar products but I made a huge mistake. I honestly cant believe that the folks at Roxio actually use this product because if they did they would have noticed the massive holes in standard features that it is lacking. I wanted an MP3 solution mainly, with an option to get a DVD burner later but I have many complaints. * It will not allow you to use your own MP3 naming format. You can only use the 3 presets, so it is necessary to go back after every rip & rename every track to what it should be. Totally ignoring what a customer wants to do- you must do it Roxios way or do it yourself. * Standard features like normalization are simply left out. If you have cds at a different volume level- too bad, buy another product to do what this one should do. * Simple items are made cumbersom such as CDDB- which finds the names but you must refresh everytime you accept what the CDDB finds or your tracks will get named Track1 & so on. This is just extra keystrokes for what should already have been done.... again making it cumbersom. * Comes with a 350 page book telling you everything except what you want to do or know. Want to find out how to burn an ISO? No table of contents to just search ISO. You must wait on pages & pages of worthless timeconsuming Manuals via PDF. This is really the unforgivable part. * Things like DVD builder are amazingly enept. One example is that there are 2 options to save- Save & Save as. Both do the same thing. Save as doesnt allow you to save as anything or to anyplace- Name? OK saved just like the option for Save. This is a total lack of testing & product development & lack of concern for customer satisfaction. Now I did give it 1 extra star due to the baseline of support does pick up my dvd/cd recorders. Many that I have tried in the past dont do that... But I guess I will have to throw this in as a wash of my cash & try to find a product that works. Thanks for nothing Roxio.