Easy CD & DVD Creator 6

Being an engineer, I can only believe that software engineers must run Roxio. The product is always being upgraded which means, where I work, fixed for a poor early release, and or the engineers want to keep playing with it. I should have known when I saw the 1 inch thick Manual that came with Creator Platinum, that I was in for a long difficult ride! If you have patience and a masters in I.T. you probably will enjoy being Roxios Beta site and using the product. If not you will be totally frustrated. I have gotten it to work fairly well, but always come to a dead end that cant be answered in the manual. Trying to get assistance is virtually impossible. You can e mail the tech folks, but be ready for days of unanswered questions, then back and forth for weeks, when all that was needed was a short phone call. Oh yes, you can get phone assistance but youll spend a lot ...more then the software costs. For my money its easier to use Nero. Oh yes, if you only have a dial up connection, youll spend many hours on line trying to download updates that might not solve anything. I expect that version 7 isnt much different. Good luck.

When I installed it, it asked to be rebooted. When it rebooted it knocked out my computer would not reboot. I had to do a system restore but it rebooted into minimum resolution and 16 colors. Trying to change the display settings to a higher resolution and more colors was unsuccessful. Technical support for my video card could not find a solution. Reinstalling Windows did not solve the proproblem. It looks like I will have to do a clean install and reinstall over a 100 applications. When I installed Easy Creator I had no programs running in the background so that was not the problem. Easy Creator has always given me some problems. It is a tempermental program to begin with. I had hoped that Roxio would have solved these problems in the most recent version but it looks like Roxio only made the problems worse.

This is great if you want to make vcds and copy cds and stuff like that, but if you want to make your own dvds you might want to search for something with a higher quality Mpeg encoder. I use this and Nero for dvd authoring, this is a good program because you can edit out commercials and trim video clips, you cant do that with Nero or at least I havent figured it out yet. My only real complaint is when I output to dvd the quality of the video looks more like vcd, a lot of pixelation occures when things move fast on screen. With Nero the pixelation is minimal but you need a pre edited file to work with. If anyone knows of a software that will give me the best of both programs share the knowledge.

Worked great for me.

I bought this against the advice of several reviews on this site. It will make a nice looking DVD but it is very limited in my opinion. 1) Wont allow you to combine video clips 2) Wont allow you to rename the video clips that you capture. You can only do that in windows explorer. 3) Any audio that you attach is limited to just a few seconds 4) If you need any help with anything other than installation problems, you have to pay for it from day one. 5)When you edit a clip, you cant keep what you cut out, it automatically discards it. Its OK, but not worth the $ I paid for it. I am going to find a real DVD capture and edit program and get rid of this.

Being a user of Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum I was excited to hear of the forthcoming release of Easy CD & DVD Creator 6. I noticed that there were a lot of negative reviews going around from people who couldnt get the software to work. Based on the quality of the old version, and the new features in version 6 I decided to buy this product anyway. I am glad that I did. It works flawlesly on my Windows XP SP1 Home Edition System and Teac 40x CD writer. I have 4 friends who have since bought this software and they have had no problems either (2 using Windows XP, 1 using Windows ME, and another using Windows 98SE). The people who are having problems probably have forgotton to remove old CD writing software (IF YOU HAVE HAD NERO ON YOUR PC MAKE SURE YOU COMPLETELY REMOVE BOTH NERO AND IN CD WHICH COMES WITH IT). Check also that your system has all the latest Windows Updates installed (Windows XP users make sure you have Service Pack One). Make sure you have the latest updates installed as well...

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.

This is up there with the legendary WinFax V9 as one of the worst software products ever made. The main problem: this horrible product corrupts at the drop of a hat. You will find yourself uninstalling and re-installing this software - a long and tedious process - every single time you want to burn one CD. RUN as fast as can from this product. Id rather hand transcribe data - and go back to making music cassettes - than use this irritating mess.

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.

If you are fortunate enough to get one of the earlier releases of 6.0 you will be OK as long as you do not upgrade via the web once you register. Most of the copies out there now do include the newer engine. If you upgrade to 6.x via the web you can kiss DVD burning goodbye. They are planning a release of the newer engine that will fix the bug that they have stated could not be replicated in their labs. However, look at their own site forums and on the web. Its a wide spread issue. The fix is supposed to be out in late November. I would wait until it is out and tested first. It does burn DVDs but it further compresses the image to about 50% of what it should be. The end result is a 4.7 gig burn that renders to about 2 gigs. Its almost unrecognizable when you play it. Pixilation so bad that is resembles a mosaic pattern. Another problem is the software keeps attempting to finalize CD-R disks. After the initial finalization using the drag and drop icons it will finalize the CD-R again. Throw that one away too. Finally, I burned a 1-hour DVD. It took 27 hours to render with the new engine on a 2.6 GHz with 1 gig of RAM and a 110 Gig swap drive. Your call on buying this! One thing I liked... The nice box it came in...