Roxio Creator NXT Pro 8 | Complete CD/DVD Burning and Creativity Suite [PC Disc] [Old Version]

Roxio software would not backup my Turbo Tax tax return files because the name length exceeded 106 characters. This is a very old problem, fixed years ago by other software. Roxio does not have any info within last 5 years on this problem. There is a lack of documentation and of user Q and A type pages on the product that are categorized and searchable. The company is living off its reputation. The software works erratically. You have to turn off antimalware including Windows own to get it to work in a reasonable period of time. It doesnt tell you this. This is often true, and you have to have learned this over the years. I wonder how people who are not full time professionals manage in cases like this. This company doesnt care about them. The interface is extremely poor and you have to be very experienced with Roxio and other programs for many years to figure it out. You need a deep programming shop level culture to get this program to work. The current interface is worse than the old one and less easy to use and figure out. You are burning cash not disks when you buy this product. There are freeware programs that are not limited by the file length for backing up Turbo Tax and other critical files. How would Turbo Tax use my prior year return if I depended on this product for backup?

Would not download onto my computer

Beware Roxio NXT 8 and Paintshop have performance issues. Slow, freeze ups. I discovered after buying first Paintshop 2021 for windows 10, very slow freezing up at time, then saw in the software, C++ version 2012. What I believe Corel is doing is using basically the same software (e.g., Old Roxio media Creator suites, very old Paintshop) made 10+ years ago and just doing minimum patch work to barely get by so it will work on todays window 10 computers for quick sales. Thats why there are so many performance issues I had and so many others. It is misleading and dishonest. Corel needs to do a complete programming overhaul on these software with updated programing code versions. Instead of doing the minimum so not have to invest in rewriting the software so it is truly compatible with todays systems as they advertise. Software is not fully compatible, that is why there are problems. Its like the old trick of cleaning and painting the engine of an old used care so you dont see the oil leaks. Very disrespectful. Giving old crap and selling it as new. Sleezy!

Roxio Creator NXT Pro 8 | Complete CD/DVD Burning and Creativity Suite is a perfect software. Ive used Roxio Creator for years and each upgrade gets better than the one before. When you do a lot of video and photograph manipulation, this is the product for you. Its all in one.

I was first drawn to this software because creating, manipulating and burning DVDs is often a challenge with freeware or budget software packages. I have used Roxio products in the past – usually the free package that is provided with new DVD burners. The Creator Suite has far more capability and options to really make your disks look professionally done. It is a complete suite of media manipulation software from images to video. You can modify video or pictures in a thousand creative ways. From there, you can make your own DVDs or upload to social media. It even allows you to work with the sound track. The software is fairly easy to use and mostly intuitive enough to work with without much direction. While Lightscribe technology (the ability to “burn” a label onto specially prepared disks) has faded from the forefront, I still use it on some of my disks. I was disappointed to see it missing from this software, and happy that I still have an older copy of Roxio software that has the feature built-in. I find this software a good value and worth purchasing, but there are several things to be mindful of. The Pro package itself is technically a suite, with numerous apps started from a single interface, but there are a lot of extras included that all install in other places. I found programs located in at least 4 different folders on my start menu. It is hard to get a handle on what was actually installed and where it is located. I also found the install difficult, with problems (crashes) as it installed and little information on how to ensure all of the extra programs were installed. I’m glad I have a pretty good familiarity with computers and managed to get everything working. My other peeve is that the extra software programs (like Paintshop Pro) are 2020 version and result in constant advertisements to upgrade to the 2021 version (on brand new software) from the moment you open up the program to when you shut it down. These few issues aside, the package gives you a lot of capability for the money. I did remove one star for the difficulties in the install process, partially because the crashes and partially from the lack of instruction on how to get everything installed. Howver, that aside, it is a great softare package to have on your computer.

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Generally Id say that this suite is pretty darned comprehensive with a whole lotta bells and whistles that most people wont need. But if you are like me and you like messing around even if its not for work/school, then this is a pretty cool suite. I *used* to know what I was doing about 10 or so years ago. Technology has come a long way and my learning curve is being challenged. But so far Ive managed a simple video edit and Im starting to work with the photo editing. I would love to have either a simple booklet to get you started or a short tutorial showing what each thing can do ... Im sure theres something online and Ill be going to look for that soon. That said, having used programs like this before, I know Ill figure it out. One thing that happened that I hope wont become an issue is that when I was messing with the Creator on a video, the program just shut down and I lost my work (thankfully not far along and I was experimenting so it didnt matter). I also had an issue with Paintshop suddenly not wanting to open and I restarted my computer which fixed it. This is a relatively new computer so it shouldnt be an issue there. If it keeps happening Ill be back to update. For now, Im generally pleased. If I manage to create anything really cool Ill upload it here.

This software suite allows me to create DVDs with very nice menus. There are lots of things I like about this software: * It is intuitive, so not a huge learning curve. * The DVD I create can contain multiple movies which will show up on the main menu of the DVD. * It allows me to customize each of the DVDs menus with my personal background photos, or I can use stock backgrounds that are included. * I can add music to each of the menus. * It can deal with many formats of media files * I can setup a scene selection menu for each movie on the DVD I create. I can manually define what scenes I want on the scene menus, or I can have the software automatically create scene selections every X minutes. * I can add a movie scene that plays before the main menu comes up. * I can burn my project directly to a DVD without additional software, or I can save it as an .IMG file to burn later on a different computer. Handy if I want to create a DVD and send it to friends and family so they can burn it. * It says it can handle BlueRay, so if I ever decide to upgrade my hardware, the software should be able to handle it. Things I have difficulty with are: * The disk comes with no printed instructions. Was not too difficult to figure out how to install it, and work it, but a printed manual would have been nice. * I had to install this software twice in order to get it to work properly. First install exited after install without installing much of the software. The MYDVD software worked, but many of the NXT suite icons on the start menu did nothing when I clicked them. Other suite icons gave me a registry error when I clicked them. Another install without uninstalling has corrected all of my known problems. This is cool software for creating custom DVDs. I like it and recommend it to anyone who has the need or desire to create custom DVDs.

The disk arrives in a thin box which also contains a card with the serial/registration number. Nothing else. No documentation. The in-program documentation is poor and the support from Corel is all offshore and VERY POOR both in accessibility and content. The software works OK once you have figured it out by (extensive) trial and error. I still have an issue (naming/labelling DVD chapters) that I havent solved. NO help from support.

Pro’s: • Good burning software with lots of additional software included on the disk • Roxio makes decent performing software and this Creator software is no exception • There are a ton of different video and audio formats you can use for both input and output which is nice. In the past I’ve had to use several programs to complete what this one program does Con’s: • Not a big con but the annoying part of the initial install is that I had to interact way too much during the install process and some of the installs did not complete the first time so I had to make multiple passes at it to get the programs installed Final thoughts: If you do any burning or copying of DVD’s or CD’s then this might be a solid option to handle those tasks. You can also do other tasks like editing and authoring DVD’s, CD’s and home movies but I didn’t dive in to that yet. I received this software for free as part of the Vine program but feel I’ve given it a fair unbiased review. I’ll come back to update my review if anything changes my opinion.