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?

If you are unfortunate enough to get this product installed on your computer it is likely that you will regret it almost immediately. It is the Facebook of software, constantly popping up ads to try and get you to buy more things that you do not need. After the third time in less than an hour that a popup sale appeared I removed it completely from my computer. Roxio used to be a solid brand. That was more than ten years ago. Times have changed. Avoid this product like the plague unless you enjoyed being constantly prompted to buy things you do not need and probably do not even want.

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.

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I have been using Roxio software products for well over 10 years and have been happy with their various products for the most part. This particular bundle is a slam dunk when it comes to value and includes some of their most popular and useful titles such as PaintShop Pro, which I have been using for probably 20 years now. In addition to PSP the bundle includes a number of ripping and burning tools that can be used for converting various file types and allowing you to burn them to CD/DVD. Keep in mind, while the product allows you to rip commercial CDs it does NOT allow you to make copies of commercial DVDs or Blu-Ray disks. In order to make copies of those you will need to bypass their copyright protection scheme which you will have to do with a different product. You CAN convert decrypted commercial DVDs and non-copyrighted titles and burn them using this product. All of the titles included with this bundle are very mature and stable. Support from Roxio is excellent and you can find a number of videos on YouTube on how to use many titles, especially PaintShop Pro, which has the best support of any of these titles. You will obviously need a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray burner in order to burn audio/video/data to disk. I have used most versions of PaintShop Pro and cant say as there is a lot of difference between the 2020 and 2021 version. Same goes for the rest of the titles. So, if you have the 2020 versions of these titles there are not a lot of reasons to upgrade. However, if you are missing any titles or have much older versions of these titles it is well worth the price this sells for,

This product will not play 5.1 Surround Sound or DTS as it advertises! Nero 2021 or Cyberlink Media Suite wound be a better choice for a well round suite! I am running a 10 core process @ 4Ghz with 16Gb of RAM and SSD dives and the install took over 1/2 hour to install!

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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.

I’m using this for creating family photo presentations with audio, video and much more. Photo editing, VHS transfer to DVD. Yow!!!

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.