Roxio Creator 2009 [OLD VERSION]

3.3 3.3 out of 5 stars | 150 ratings

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Last update: 10-31-2024


About this item

The industry's best and easiest burning and copying tools for protecting your life stories, digital media and files
Capture your videos shot with your standard, HD or AVCHD camcorder; transform your footage into a movie using Creator 2009's flexible video editing tools, perfect for all levels of ability and interest
Make the most of your digital music with playlists for any occasion; Creator's new beat matching feature will automatically synchronize the rhythm from song to song
Make every picture perfect with Creator's touch-up tools and effects; create fun cards, calendars and other digital stories to share and enjoy with family and friends
Relive memories on DVD, on-the-go, or share with the world on YouTube or other popular destinations

Top reviews from the United States

Eric
5.0 out of 5 stars Vedio Creator
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2011
I have been working with Roxio 9 for a year now on a partial load and I was loving it then. Now with Roxio 10 I have all the tools and I am in heaven. I am working on several vedio compliations now and am about to use if for my Daughters Soccer teams group photos. It is great!!
Paulange
1.0 out of 5 stars Roxio: NEVER AGAIN
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2009
I thought it was me, or my computer, that was wrong... then I came across some of the comments in Amazon about this product (a little late for me already, though)... I should have known better!!! I bought this software a few months ago and I only got to burn ONE CD. Not because I did not want to use it more, but because IT DID NOT WORK!!!

Customer service is non-existent. They direct you to the help or to their web site, but forget about a live person. In any case, someone else commented that the guys at Roxio do not know a lot about what's going on with their software as well, so I wouldn't have helped much to talk or chat with someone from their side, anyway.
This is my first and last experience with ROXIO. I bouth it in the first place only because my husband's (old) notebook came with a version and it did work.

They should really give it away for free, or maybe pay customers to have it. I would very much appreciate a refund as a good-bye gift from this company.
Lsid
2.0 out of 5 stars Roxio Creator 2009 Old Version
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2012
I had purchased this product as the updated CreatorNXT would not reconize any slide program set up using Roxio Creator 2009. The Roxio Creator 2009 that I purchased from Amazon did not do any better only giving me errors. Of course Roxio does not support any of their older versions. Roxio Creator 2009 [OLD VERSION]
S. Gore
3.0 out of 5 stars Clean Install or be prepared for Roxio Hell
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2009
I was very discouraged at first, lots of bugs and freezes. I found there is a clean install procedure if you ever had any Roxio/Sonic branded software on your computer. I uninstalled Creator 2009, followed the instructions for manually removing all traces of any Roxio/Sonic products (of which I had several), and reinstalled. All bugs and hangs disappeared!

Pros: Very versatile import/conversion/burning of all types of media files, batch file conversions, nice video player which views just about any combination of formats on any type of storage (i.e progressive PAL DVD disk images stored on hard drives). I particularly like the versatility for making DVD disk compilations of MPEG-2 video files which don't need additional editing. You can add chapters anywhere (not just at the segment breaks ) and burn a new video compilation without the need to render the video again. This saves 30-90 minutes of time and there is no degradation from an extra compression/decompression cycle. This is really handy for quickly making personalized DVDs with just segments that are relevent for specific family members or friends. Panorama photgraph stitch feature works well, lots of fun.

Cons: Video editing software is very sluggish when moving the play head along the timeline - the worst I've ever seen. Apparently the program tries to load the entire video into memory, and unless you're editing small video files (a few minutes), every drag of the play head along the timeline involves file swapping on the hard drive. I've got 4 gigs of memory and 3 gig/sec SATA drives, and the editing program still moves at a snails pace. Photographic organization and editing are ho hum - you'll do better with Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Addition (available for free).

Finally, Roxio needs to work on their installation programming. That they can't design an installer to satisfactorily remove their old software which badly interfers with their new software is pathetic.

In summary, buy Roxio Creator 2009 primarily for your burning needs, it does a solid job. The Video/photographic editing tools are only for the most casual of users.

As for my rating: 1 star off for the bad video editor, and 1 star off for the installation hassles. A reasonable person might also deduct a star for the bloated nature of the product in all respects (price, system resources, hard disk space, long load time).

My system: Fully patched Win XP Pro SP3, Intel E8500 dual core processor @ 3.16 GHz.

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ljc
4.0 out of 5 stars Roxio Creater
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2014
The program works great for changing music from Lps to CDs but the copy feature for movies cannot be used for store bought movies so you can't make a back up of your movie collection. I would not purchase again.
Remlov
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellnt
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2012
Exellent for the price. I have been using Roxio productsfor years and am very impressed in the quality for the price.
Heater Hal
1.0 out of 5 stars Sorry Roxio, but this product is not ready for release.
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2009
I mainly purchased this for their "Videowave 11" video editor, but found that to have fatal design flaws making it unusable, such as how split audio clips have pauses in between them and how you can't resize the beginning of video clips only the end. I tried most of the other features/programs, like the DVD player "Cineplayer" etc. I am rather dumbfounded, sometimes things would just stop working after working just the day before, sometimes I couldn't even figure out how to do the simplest thing. I can't recommend this program for anyone at all, I feel sorry for the people that bought this. This is a shame on the entire software industry. I'm sorry, that is truly how I feel. Roxio must have major management/design/development issues, I hope they start fresh and fix their software.
Amelie Renoncule
2.0 out of 5 stars IT WON'T CONVERT FLV. FILES
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2009
APPEARS TO BE GREAT, BUT(T) IT WILL NOT CONVERT FLASH VIDEO CLIPS (FLV. FILES). YOU'LL HAVE TO DOWNLOAD A SEPERATE CONVERTER PROGRAM, SUCH AS "FORMAT FACTORY" [free], TO CHANGE YOUR CLIPS TO AN ACCEPTABLE FORMAT.

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