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

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.

This software suite is a great option for people that are wanting to capture, edit and burn videos but dont necessarily need the power or cost of Adobe software. Roxio has always been my go-to for more basic media work but this suite proved to be a great batch of programs. I found all the software to be straight forward and easy to use with just a little bit of practice. The DVDs I was able to create werent exactly what one would call professional quality but they came out far better than ones I have made in the past using software at home. Well worth the price if you are planning to do a large project that requires a relatively powerful batch of editing & burning options.

Ive used four or more different brands of video editing software. This one has some features that I might use, but its not going to be my favorite. I like having more than one video on the timeline at one time ... all playing their audio tracks at the same time ... and each video track is available to choose at any given time for a copy and paste into the main video track. Other software will do this, but I dont see a way to do this in Roxio. Maybe it will ... I might look at tutorials, but I already like another program Im familiar with. Even so, it does have some other usable features. This comes with PaintShop Pro, though, and I like that. I will mention that this crashed twice during installation. It seems MyDVD didnt want to install. I had to choose to bypass it and then add it after installing everything else. The program also crashed during editing a video and while getting familiar with some features and its layout. My PC is not the fastest, but its not slow either. An I7 processor ... and this crashes. Oh well.

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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?

This is the best Roxio product thus far!I really lik it a lot!

You get a lot of quality software here especially if you have artistic tendencies. Im not a great artist or even a very good one, but I sometimes do some drawings and designs, and at least my family has liked them. I have a fancy tablet, and stylus for drawing on screen, and being a covid shut-in for now, a lot of time on my hands. Plus, I have a lot of video and sound files Id like to archive lest, I might lose them off my computer hard drive in a crash, so this makes burning them to disk easy. Tons of other useful productivity software. Plus, they still have the disc version, and since most of my computers are a bit older, they use that, and have burner capability. Recommended.

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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.

Im using this just to make DVDs and CDs Downloading music is fine, but sometimes you want a CD. We record things we are performing so I wanted a CD burner. This is a lot more, Highlight reel feature, audio editing, Has a new interface that has been redesigned. Included PainShop Pro 2020 and PhotoMirage. Fancy encryption tools as well. As usual, Corel offers less expensive software, with a lot of extras, so if you can get used to a new interface, despite having standardized on other software, you might find a lot of value in this package.