The New Creator 2012 from Roxio
You know Fall is around the corner when Roxio releases a new version of their Creator suite of DVD burning tools. I have reviewed this new version called Creator 2012 and it comes with a few new features to builds upon the massive suite of tools already found in Creator products.
Easily enhance, preserve and share your digital life with Roxio Creator 2012. Edit video and create DVDs. Create and convert your videos and photos to enjoy on just about any device including smartphones, iPhones and iPads. Fix and enhance photos; improve portraits; create printed photo projects. Copy music; digitize LPs and tapes. Convert audio and video files for mobile playback. Burn, back up, copy and preserve files to CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc. New features include new artistic effects to enhance your videos and 50 professional music tracks for slideshows and videos. Built-in video tutorials make it easy to learn everything that Creator can do.
Take a look at the intro video below for a review of Creator 2012 describing what it is and what it can do for your DVD Creating and Burning tasks.
The tech specs are as follows:
- New! Video conversion for iPad®, iPhone®, Android™ Smartphones and other devices.
- New! Powerful portrait enhancement tools
- New! Create photo and video slideshows with any music to share on DVD
- New! Convert and create videos in DivX® format for playback on DivX certified devices
- Fast and versatile HD video editing and encoding
- Create movie magic with a few clicks
- Turn your 2D videos into stunning 3D movies
- Edit in 3D and create 3D DVDs
- Capture streaming web videos take TiVo DVR shows to-go
- Create Hollywood-style DVDs
- Rip, mix, burn and share digital and analog audio
- Capture Internet audio, whatever the source
- Powerful Sound Editor
- Convert CD audiobooks for your iPod, iPhone, iPad
- Preserve old LPs and tapes
- Create mixes and identify your audio…automatically
- Access and share the digital media on your PC from the Internet
- Upload photos & video to Facebook
- Create slideshows, cards, calendars, and more
- Restore old photos with a few clicks
- Create sweeping panoramas
- Create amazing 3D images even from photos taken with a standard camera
- Back up your files with BackOnTrack 4
- Drag, drop, burn – right on your desktop
- The industry standard for burning
- Copy with one click
- Copy CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs* with one click
- Create custom DVD video compilations
System Requirements
Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate
(32- or 64-bit), Microsoft® Windows Vista™ SP2 (32- or 64-bit),
Windows® XP SP3 (32-bit)
• For data burning and copy, audio capture and editing: Intel® 1.6GHz
Pentium 4 processor or AMD equivalent, 512MB RAM for Windows XP
and 1GB RAM for Windows Vista and Windows 7. For video editing
and conversion and DVD playback: Intel Pentium 4 2GHz processor
or AMD equivalent and 1GB RAM. Multi-core processor with at least
2GB RAM recommended.
• 1024×768 DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with at least 16-bit
color setting, sound card, DVD-ROM drive
• ATI Stream® and CUDA™ acceleration only available with AMD ATI
Stream and NVIDIA® CUDA enabled graphics cards
• Hard drive with at least 3GB free space for the installation process.
DVD and BD copy, video editing and authoring may require large
amount of free disk space, up to 10’s of GB.
• Windows Media Player version 10, 11 or 12
• Internet Explorer 7 or 8
• Internet connection required for installation, registration, product
updates and some features. Any Internet charges are the user’s
responsibility.
• QuickTime® player version 7 required for some functionality
• iTunes® version 8 for some functionality
• TiVo® requires a TiVo® Series2™, Series3™, TiVo HD DVR or other
TiVoToGo™ compatible DVR connected to your home network and
TiVo Desktop. Does not work with DirecTV® provided TiVo DVRs. See
www.tivo.com for more information.
• For video capture: OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 FireWire card for use
with DV camera or Roxio Video Capture USB for analog sources
• Blu-ray authoring requires an additional plug-in which can be
purchased at www.roxio.com
3D:
• 3D glasses and other 3D hardware is the user responsibility
• 3D video input formats: over/under full and half-height, side-by-side,
full and half-width, anaglyph red/cyan, 3D MPO files, RealD
• 3D video output formats: anaglyph red/cyan, side-by-side, full and
half-width, over/under full and half-height, 3D MPO, RealD
Input Formats:
• Video: AVI, DV, HDV, DV-AVI, MPEG-1/2/4, MPEG2-HD, DVD-Video,
XviD, DVR-MS, TiVo, ASF, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, 3GP, MPEG2
Transport Stream, AVC (H.264), AVCHD
• Audio: Audio CD, MP3, WAV, WMA, Dolby® Digital AC-3, AAC, Ogg
Vorbis, FLAC, M4A, MP4, Playlists (WPL, ASX, M3U, PLS, XSPF)
• Image: 3D MPO, JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, GIF
Output Formats:
• Video: AVI, DV-AVI, HDV, MPEG-1/2/4, MPEG2-HD, WMV, WMV HD,
AVC (H.264), MP4, 3GP
• Audio: MP3, WAV, WMA, Dolby Digital AC-3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC,
MPEG-1/2, M4A, M4B AAC, Playlists (M3U, PLS, XSPF, WPL)
• Image: JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, 3D MPO
• Video disc formats: DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD),
Mini DVD
Recordable Formats:
• CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, DVD-RAM,
BD-R/RE, BD-R/RE DL
• Disc image formats: read ISO, C2D, BIN/CUE and GI; write ISO and GI
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About The Author: Rob Boirun
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