Roxio Creator 2009 Reviews

Roxio Creator has been our Editors' Choice media creation suite the past few years (under the name Easy Media Creator). It includes a wealth of tools for mixing, authoring, and burning videos and music. But most of its functions, aside from the Blu ...

One-stop shop for all types of media creation and burning. Accepts AVCHD camcorder movies. Burns Blu-ray video discs and high-def AVCHD on DVDs. Thorough help system

Except for the main welcome screen, interface looks long in the tooth. Many bugs and crashes encountered in testing. Slower DVD burning and CD ripping than the competition. Too many features in the online service say "upgrade to Premium version

Roxio's latest suite adds a prettier start interface and a couple of new goodies like Beatmatch and Audiobook support, but the included apps are still too complex and generated plenty of errors during testing.

Improved navigation helps you find your way around this full-featured burning suite.

Comprehensive CD/DVD and AV features ; Excellent launcher application

Sluggish application switching ; No upgrade policy for previous owners

For new users, Roxio Creator 2009 is a good deal, especially if you act on the limited time giveaway of the Blu-ray plug-in. The suite is massive (3GB of disk space is required) and a bit slow to switch between modules, but the look and the feel of ...

Does the latest instalment impress?

Value for money, easier to use

Big install, possibly too many features

There are plenty of features on offer but Roxio has done a great job of improving the core tasks