Win a Copy of Roxio Easy Media Creator 8

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.roxio.com/en/products/emc/why_upgrade.jhtml' target='_blank'>http://www.roxio.com/en/products/emc/why_upgrade.jhtml</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/c8_suite_boxshot.jpg" /> The fine people at Roxio have offered up <b>five copies</b> of Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 for me to give away, each valued at $99 USD. This contest is a really easy one! First, take a look at this <a href="http://www.roxio.com/en/products/emc/why_upgrade.jhtml">product comparison chart</a> that lists the new features in this version of the software. Pick one or more features from this software bundle that you think are interesting, and post a message in this discussion thread. Is it the ability to burn a disc and create an ISO image at the same time? Or creating DVD audio discs?<br /><br />I will randomly pick five posts and each will get a copy of Roxio Easy Media Creator 8. The contest will run until Friday the 11th of November at 12 PM GMT -7. Good luck everyone!<br /><br /><b>UPDATE:</b> The <a href="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/index.php?topic_id=9240">five winners have been chosen</a>, so the contest is now over. Thanks for participating everyone!

[ctmagnus]

Hmmm...

I think "Extract audio tracks from live concert DVDs and create personalized audio CDs or MP3s".

I sure do love live DVDs and CDs!

btw, this sounds suspiciously like a contest that ran here a few weeks ago ;)

[voodoo]

I would be most interested in the DVD authoring functions, particularly "Exercise full creative control over DVD menu options including buttons, menus, backgrounds, audio and text".

[fslongo]

I like the idea of creatiing 16:9 DVD video productions. Also the ability to create DivX HD discs is great.

[boeman]

"Save time burning. Burn multi-disc projects to multiple burners at the same time."

Talk about saving time backing up!

[OKCrew]

Copy DVDs to double layer discs and preserve the original quality. I will need this with my new DL burner.

[Felix Torres]

"Enjoy up to 50 hours of music on a DVD with navigation menus..."

This could be useful.
I've rather enjoyed my experience with the DVD side of DuoDisks and an easy way to do something like that with compressed-audio files sounds very appealing.

I skipped the last two releases but it might be time to upgrade... 8)

[timbur]

How about "Add a photo index to your disc label or insert to locate your photos" - that'd work for me...

T

[BabyJ2590]

Burn your TiVo shows to DVD and watch them anywhere.

-Jordan

[OSUKid7]

Schedule full, partial and unattended backups
From one who knows backups are well worth the time and effort, anything that automates this process is good. :)

Burn a disc and create a disc image file at the same time
Hey, another thing that'll save time. When I rip a DVD to use as a virtual drive, it's great that I could burn a copy of it at the same time.

[jeffd]

Nero ftw!! ;)

[spaceman]

I really like the burin to multiple drive at once is great. Support for double layer disks -- cool!

[Ivan]

That listed feature of creating audio DVDs with navigation menus and Dolby Digital sounds interesting. I am guessing that is converting digital music (MP3) into a format readable in any DVD player (even if the DVD player does not support MP3 playback). If so that would be a killer feature for playing hours of music in our home stereo through the DVD player without having to connect an external MP3 player or stream music from the computer to the receiver.

I also like the feature of extracting sound from DVDs and creating MP3s.

[rlobrecht]

"Produce professional-quality DVDs with movable menus, resizable buttons and text credits"

This will be a great addition when I want to bore my friends with videos of my son learning how to ride his bike.

[netman]

Definitely handling HD video. There are a few others that are nice as well such as the photo album

[EscapePod]

In addition to all the features for working with HD, the following caught my eye as interesting:

"Easily share your photos using peer-to-peer technology. Say goodbye to large email attachments."

That would help me by avoiding "exceeds the mailbox size limit" messages from my provider while sharing the photos with relatives and friends.

[bikeman]

"Automatically add title, artist and genre tags to audio tracks - even those captured from LP, tape or Internet radio."

Automatically? No, I think that they meant automagically! :)

[BugDude10]

Personally, I have to go with the ability to work in 16:9 video format. (I shot a friend's wedding last year in widescreen mode on my camcorder, then discovered that neither Easy Media Creator v7 nor Muvee worked well with widescreen.)

[Kursplat]

Burn multi-disc projects to multiple burners at the same time.

Now I can FINALLY justify adding a 3rd and 4th burner to my system! :)

[ChunkyMonkey]

"Quickly restore a system without reinstalling Windows® (Internal floppy drive required for full system backup and recovery)"

I'm interested in trying out the backup functionality.

[msprague]

That is a long list of features! It would be nice to be able to get away from boiler-plate DVD menus with:
"Exercise full creative control over DVD menu options including buttons, menus, backgrounds, audio and text"

[leslietroyer]

I like that I can burn programs saved from my TIVO to DVD. -- Cool.

Leslie Troyer

[peterm19087]

I can finally put Supertramp, and Boston vinyl on DVD's.
Gotta love Roxio, I can do it on two burners at once...

Pete

[thinkhard]

Would love to create DVDs full of all the music I would like to listen.

[wesk]

Wow, burning the same image on more than one drive. :D That could be a great benefit with my job.

Wes

[Gordo]

Extract audio tracks from live concert DVDs
Use full feature.

[dblml320]

I would have to say the feature "Create DivX HD discs to watch on HDTV**" would be totally cool!

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Jav Atar

[timmy]

Burn and create image at the same time is great, but the real goodie must be the copy DVD to Dual Layer drive....

[raweaver]

Create 16:9 DVD video productions and photo slideshows for playback on your widescreen TV. This would be cool to take advantage of my widescreen.

[fit4life]

Burn your TiVo shows to DVD and watch them anywhere....

Very cool.............................

[Kursplat]

Burn your TiVo shows to DVD and watch them anywhere....

What I REALLY need is a
Burn your Replay shows to DVD and watch them anywhere....

[kiwi]

the feature to Copy DVD movies to DivX or WMV files and compress to CD or memory card size for mobile device playback....

great for watching snowboard videos whilst on the bus on the way to the hill this winter

[Paul Martin]

For me, I think the option to create a photo index would be very valuable as I need to back up my digital photos to disc. This would be VERY handy.

[canux]

Create 16:9 DVD video productions and photo slideshows for playback on your widescreen TV. Sweet!

[Toddard]

I like the ability to capture, import and edit High Definition (HD) video files. I have a bunch of personal video files on my hard drive that I need to compile and share with family.

[David Horn]

The photo index tool looks to be the most useful. I've been looking for something to do that job for quite some time.

[Bob Christensen]

Music DVDs with navigation menus and the ability to add artist, title, etc. from any source sounds great.

[Magellan]

I still have version 5, and would really like to start burning DVD's of family pics so I can send them out to my parents whjo live far away so they can see the kids. A slideshow would work perfect.

[duncanhbrown]

As a long-time user of Easy CD Creator 5.0 Platinum, it's amazing to see the improvements Roxio has managed to add to this package.

I'm particularly impressed with the new ability to burn 50 hours of music onto a DVD, and to include DVD navigation and menus with that music.

Since I have my DVD wired into my stereo system, this would be an awesome way to be able to listen to my music collection intead of CDs.

Also, creating DVD photo slideshows is a dream come true; I have so many digitial photos, and it's hard to share them with family and friends in an easy-to-access way.

Finally, organizing my photos is a titanic manual job I now do; if this software really does this, that alone will make it worth buying (or winning)....

Please, please, please let me win! :wink:

Duncan H. Brown
Smartphone &amp; Pocket PC magazine
pocketpcmag.com (http://www.pocketpcmag.com)

[Mark from Canada]

Well,
"Save time burning. Burn multi-disc projects to multiple burners at the same time."
certainly sounds interesting.
"Create virtual disc drives and load disc images preserve the original discs, avoid disc swapping and extend laptop battery life" sounds great if the images are compressed.
"Enjoy up to 50 hours of music on a DVD with navigation menus and Dolby Digital sound." I would like to see as a sample
"Automatically add title, artist and genre tags to audio tracks - even those captured from LP, tape or Internet radio." - hm - how are they doing that?
"Create 16:9 DVD video productions and photo slideshows for playback on your widescreen TV" - now we're talking
"Easily access media files across home PCs and play back from UPnP-compliant living room devices" - only if it is a good server, not like Nero's first try

Wel - seems like this one is almost worth a try again... 8O

Pick me, pick me :D

[Fitch]

I woul be alll about copying and creating DVDs to double layer discs, with my new DL burner and my crazy huge DVD projects, I have nothing good do to that.

[jay0427]

The ability to extract audio tracks from Live DVD's would be excellent! I have an enormous collection of Live DVD's and I've always tried to think of ways that I could easily take the audio tracks out and listen to them in my car. I can't wait to see how well this works!

[shooter]

Create virtual disc drives and load disc images preserve the original discs, If they can keep Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 from geting corrupted have had to install /or repair 4x in the last year. No promblems with Nero, Alcohol120, Cakewalk,or Extreme media

[dave_p_1]

The one truly useful feature for me is the wide screen format. I've had wide screen laser discs for ages, I have my wide screen DVDs and TV, and I'm tired of waiting for my computer to catch up.

Most of the rest of the new features are far beyond my capabilities, much less my system's (dual dual-layer DVD writers? right!).

Dave

[Roosterman]

I reallly like the idea of being able to burn a DVD from Tivo. I've got more than one DVD player and tv and it would be nice to have more freedom as to which one I can watch the recording on.

[mcsouth]

Wow, that software slices, it dices, it does all kinds of wacky stuff! I feel like I must be way out of touch with the latest CD burning software, because foolish me - I thought you just used it for burning stuff to CD's (and DVD's)!

I found the concept of burning to multiple burners simultaneously to be pretty innteresting - although it makes me wonder what kind of hard drive speeds and CPU minimums that you would need to do that at any kind of speed. Sounds like that could be pretty taxing on several of the PC's sub systems.

I also liked the sound of some of the DVD authoring and copying functions, along with the ability to rip audio tracks from DVD's - if it works like it suggested, that would sure simplify the process of creating MP3's from music videos included as extras on DVD's.

I guess that it's time to consider upgrading from the v5.5 of Nero that I still use - I feel like I must be driving a Model T on the freeway!

[firedog]

Wow - what a feature list!

I'm especially intersted in all the backup features, especially the easy restore features.

Danny

[migz]

I'd like to try out some of the new music features, in particular:

Extract audio tracks from live concert DVDs and create personalized audio CDs or MP3s

Enjoy up to 50 hours of music on a DVD with navigation menus and Dolby Digital sound.

Automatically add title, artist and genre tags to audio tracks - even those captured from LP, tape or Internet radio.

[RWC_Zippy]

I like the sounds of this

"Capture Internet music or radio shows for your MP3 player"

There's a ton of great stuff streaming off of Stations like Radioio and SomaFM.

-R

[xycury]

Create compilation DVDs from DVD-Video, DivX and WMV files from all of my home movies.

This feature would be excellent for software like this to create in a snap. Definately get those movies out from the PC and into the Living Room!

[tobiaspete]

I'm looking forward to creating Audio DVDs and stuffing "up to 50 hours of music on a DVD with navigation menus and Dolby Digital sound." Now if I could just get a DVD player in my car in-dash :D

[larryh]

I think the feature I like best is the ability to "Automatically add title, artist and genre tags to audio tracks - even those captured from LP, tape or Internet radio". This can save a ton of time (and typing).

[rwelch]

I also like the audio portion:

Enjoy up to 50 hours of music on a DVD with navigation menus and Dolby Digital sound.

I haven't used a Roxio program before, but they always look like good products.

[wbrunner]

I think the DVD audio is a great idea. I have a second home that I have to take my MP3 player to have access to my music. I will be able to take a DVD copy of my MP3 files and not worry about leaving it there.

[ggermain]

I hope that this version is more stable than 7.5. I had nothing but problems with 7.5.

[bryhawks]

I love the idea of a pure-music DVD - hours and hours of good-quality.

Bryan

[KH]

I like the ease of conversion/mix and match DVD features. Hmmm. I have to settle for just one? That would be "Copy DVD movies to DivX or WMV files and compress to CD or memory card size for mobile device playback"

[J-Mac]

Hi all!

Long time PPCT reader and member.

I know this may seem minor to some, but the new photo slideshow features do it for me.

"Create 16:9 DVD video productions and photo slideshows for playback on your widescreen TV." Why hasn't anyone else done this? Now that I have all 16:9 HD-TV's throughout, this is a sweet feature!

"Personalize every photo and video project with premium content and projects 340+ Special effects and transition 80+ Photo content projects 25 Pre-designed labels 20+ Premium menu styles" This is nice! I've used Sonic's previous versions, and these are the same features, but improved. Most don't think of Sonic or Roxio for their digital photo slideshows - but they rock! Plus, 1,000 photos per slideshow and you can place multiple slideshows on a DVD!

"Easily share your photos using peer-to-peer technology. Say goodbye to large email attachments." Alright! Now I guess I can say, Goodbye "Hello!", hello Roxio!! (I've grown a bit too annoyed with Google's Hello! photo sharing app continually logging on and off by itself, stealing focus on my PC each and every time).

If I end getting a copy of Roxio's Easy Media Creative 8 free from this contest, or purchase it myself, I'll be a winner either way!! :D

[psgny]

To me, the most important feature is the ability for unattended backups and simple system restores. I have seen too many systems litterally destroyed because of a lack of backup. This is usually because of the way many system saves need to be done. Roxio, makes it so simple that no one should have an excuse not to do so.

[dukescotts]

I like:

Create compilation DVDs from DVD-Video, DivX and WMV files

And

Exercise full creative control over DVD menu options including buttons, menus, backgrounds, audio and text

And

Copy DVD movies to DivX or WMV files and compress to CD or memory card size for mobile device playback

[jim_millington]

the backup feature - being able to retore a crashed HD would be worth the price of the software alone.

[jwquinlan]

The new features are all so great that it's hard to choose anyone. However, being able to add track info to the disc is very nice. I look forward to getting this version, by win or wealth -- it would be worth it! Jim

[John Lane]

I would love the feature of burning to two drives. I build photo dvd's for my son's little league hockey team and this would be very handy.

[rprice54]

the DVD audio feature is nice, I can finally use that feature on my DVD player...

also like the unattended backups, very cool.

[britade]

My favourite features are:

- Create high quality multi-image photo slideshows in HD or on DVD
- Automatically organize thousands of photos and create custom views to search and quickly find your favorite photos

Now I can finally find the photos I want out of the 1800 or so digital photos I have stored on my PC and then display them on the TV as creative slideshows. My better half has been nagging me for months to find a way to display the photos for our friends to see.

Ahhh... Martial harmony at last!

Regards,

Adrian.

[donkap]

Being able to produce professional-quality DVDs with movable menus, resizable buttons and text credits would allow me to eliminate to quit paying professionals for this task and would speed up my turn around time on projects. Roxio has always been the best choice on PC's.

[dr_doak]

I like pulling recorded TV off of my Media Center, this sounds like it would make the DVD editing and creation much easier! (And cheaper for me)

Copying two single layer DVDs to one dual layer will be pretty nice too. At least it will be when the DLs come down in price ;).

Last but not least, printer calibration has always vexed me... If they've mastered it, then it will save me from wasting several sheets of labels and paper for every disc I print.

[lesgainous]

I just bought a new DVD burner and it came with some other software utilities (from a company that rhymes with "hero") that, quite frankly, doesn't do the job. Now that I've reviewed the features of Roxio's newest Easy Media Creator (version 8 ), I like what it has.

What I like most (and it was a hard decision, given all the new features of Easy Media Creator 8 ) was the ability to "Automatically span dozens of songs and compilations across multiple audio CDs".

I've been wanting something like this for quite a while. Having to manually divide my music library tracks is a very time consuming and arduous task--one that I never did do. Many times I sat down to do this, but quickly realized that it was too painful to go at it by hand.

So, kudos to you Roxio for implementing a much desired feature for me (and for all us media/audiophiles).

Another feature that is welcomed is the capability to "Extract audio tracks from live concert DVDs ". Wow, another time-saving feature from the king of CD/DVD utilities, Roxio!

I could probably go on and on raving about other enticing new features...but I'll give everyone else a chance. :wink:

--
Les
lesgainous(at)hotmail.com

[Jason Dunn]

Thanks for all the great comments and entries guys - I'm randomly picking five posts now, so no posts after this one will be in the running. And the winners are....drumroll...

[mtnmedic]

That's a pretty comprehensive list of features. I Haven't found ANYTHING like that anywhere else. It sems like a pretty versatile tool for all my recording needs

These are my favourite features:

"Make high quality copies of your DVD movies compress an entire 9 GB DVD video to a standard 4.7 GB DVD disc" - I hate it when my backup DVD copies turn out crappy. If this thing can REALLY compress the data AND keep the excellent quality, I'm all over it!

"Extract audio tracks from live concert DVDs and create personalized audio CDs or MP3s" - This would be fun to make mix CDs!

"Quickly restore a system without reinstalling Windows® (Internal floppy drive required for full system backup and recovery)" - This is a biggie and would save a lot of time and hassle in disaster recovery.

"Copy DVD movies to DivX or WMV files and compress to CD or memory card size for mobile device playback" - The most intriguing feature, as I am a Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC phone user constantly on the go.

[J-Mac]

Thump!

(Sound of 43 users hitting the floor at roughly the same time from holding their breath!! :lol: )

[lesgainous]

And the winners are....drumroll...

So, is there is list of the lucky winners?

:?:

[Jason Dunn]

So, is there is list of the lucky winners?

Sure, check the home page or here (http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/index.php?topic_id=9240).