Jan
3
2020

Roxio Creator NXT Pro 7 Review (Save $30)

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Roxio Creator NXT Pro 7 builds on Creator’s extensive capabilities with more powerful features & some bonus creative software. The program makes it easy to capture, enhance, save and share your photos, videos and audio projects. Burn and copy CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs, edit video and create Hollywood-style DVDs, digitize LPs and so much more.

Combining 20+ Roxio products into one, Creator 7 Pro can handle all of your creative and digital needs. Record your screen and capture video from multiple cameras. Finesse photos with Corel PaintShop Pro and AfterShot, and create beautiful photo animations with new Photo Mirage. Get easy burning with encryption using Roxio Burn 4 and clean up your hard drive with new Roxio Genie. With extra effects and programs for more creativity, along with industry-leading burning, this complete software collection is the multimedia suite that does it all.

Capture & Edit

Record your screen and capture video with MultiCam Capture. Roxio Creator NXT Pro 7 is also loaded with complete photo, video, and audio editing so you can make all your media look and sound its best.

Burn & Copy

Access industry-leading drag-and-drop tools to copy or burn your media. Create audio CDs or author DVDs with menu templates and disc labelling options to give your media a polished package.

Convert & Share

Convert audio and video to popular file formats. And, when you’re ready to share your digital media, just upload it to YouTube, Google+, or OneDrive, share to your favorite device, or burn to disc.

Premium Software & Extras

Enjoy valuable extras and more creative powers. Secure your files using Roxio Burn with encryption and enjoy even more photo editing powers with new Photo Mirage™ and Corel® PaintShop® Pro.

Features

Key Features of Roxio Creator NXT Pro 7:

MANAGE YOUR MEDIA

Easy-to-navigate user interface
- Tap into all the tools you need to manage your photos, videos, audio, and data.
- Easily burn, copy, capture, edit, convert, and share your media

BURN

Burn and copy discs with Roxio Burn 4
- Burn files with drag-and-drop ease—right from your desktop
- Make a copy* of a disc in a few clicks
- Create virtual disc drives and load disc images quickly
- Burn up to 50GB of data content onto one Blu-ray disc
- Span large files and projects across multiple CDs or DVDs
- Copy* an entire 9GB DVD movie onto a standard 4.7GB DVD
Author DVDs with Roxio MyDVD
- Turn your home videos into striking DVDs, complete with 100+ customizable chapters and menu templates, using Roxio MyDVD
- Customize chapters, menus, and music with drag-and-drop controls
- Author HD video to standard DVD for playback on Blu-ray players
- Author high-definition Blu-ray video discs Plugin required Plugin required
Branding DVDs with Roxio Label Creator
- Create personalized disc labels, DVD case inserts, and booklets using Roxio Label Creator
- Choose from professional-quality templates or create your own in minutes
- Calibrate your printer to take the guesswork out of printing disc labels

VIDEOS

Edit videos with Roxio VideoWave
- Enjoy timeline or storyboard editing
- Quick Edits: crop video, rotate video, trim video, create picture-in-picture effects, and more
- Split Screen video templates: Drag and drop media into video templates and show multiple videos at once
- Split Screen video template creator: Design your own custom split screen layouts, add graphics, lines, and more
- Motion Tracking: Blur or connect a title or graphic to a moving object in your video
- Track Transparency: Layer tracks and adjust the opacity to create a superimposed effect or custom fade-in, fade-out effects
- Multi-Camera Editor: Align multiple clips automatically with Audio Syncing, and select the camera angle you want to show as the video plays up to 4 cameras
- 14 Video Effects: Enhance video with video nature effects and filters
- Stabilize Video: Stabilize shaky video footage and automatically fix color, contrast, and brightness
- Create 3D videos: Easily convert standard 2D videos to 3D
- Convert 360 videos: Convert double or single fisheye 360 video to standard video and control the viewpoint that your audience watches
- Audio Ducking: Automatically lower background sound to make narration and dialog clear
- Paint Effects: Drag and drop video filters to add cartoon or watercolor-like effects to your picture
Create photo and video slideshows with Corel FastFlick
- Create drag-and-drop photo slideshows with music in an easy three-step process
- Select your template, add your media, make small edits, and share as desired
- Export to popular formats or upload directly to YouTube
Enjoy screen recording software with Live Screen Capture
- Plug in your cameras to capture video, audio, and record your screen
- Capture completely-synced video and audio from two devices (for example: record your screen and a webcam)
- Create more engaging tutorials and presentations with multicamera video recording software
- Perfectly sync video capture and make editing easy—even import files directly into the Multi-Camera Editor
- Record your screen, then add footage to movies, presentations, training videos, and more using Live Screen Capture
- Select your computer screen, a window, or an area of the screen to record
Export video
- Export to formats compatible for playback on popular devices
- Upload photos and videos to Google+, Microsoft OneDrive, Flickr, YouTube, and other sharing sites
- Schedule a long video conversion project overnight, pause/resume during video conversion, and preview quality before beginning
- Capture and save web videos* and convert to popular file formats for convenient offline playback on your computer, device, or disc
Watch videos on your PC with WinDVD Lite
- Play back your personal files and home videos with media playback software (WinDVD Lite does not play back commerical DVDs)
- Enhance your picture, stabilize shaky video, and enjoy smoother playback with higher frame rate support
- Play back 4K videos

PHOTOS

Create slideshows and enhance photos
- Create photo slideshows with music in a few easy clicks using Roxio PhotoSuite
- Enhance your pictures, easily correct color, crop, and straighten photos
- Adjust photos to match the screen resolution of your mobile device
- Add effects like transparency and edge fading, and change color tone
- Add attractive mats and frames to your photos Stitch images together to create your own panoramic image
Edit photos with Corel AfterShot 3
- Crop, straighten, control exposure, correct color, and more with photo editing software
- Correct imperfections, including blemish and red eye remover tools
- Enhance your picture with a wide range of image presets
- Adjust one or thousands of photos with powerful batch processing controls
- Manage large photo collections, and organize, search photos, and create web galleries
- Supports 250+ RAW camera profiles
Create mesmerizing photo animations with PhotoMirage
- Enjoy easy-to-use animation tools to transform your photos into fun animations, and achieve mind-blowing results
- Create professional-looking photo animations in minutes with three simple steps
- Share to social media, email, or web, and stand out from the crowd
- Support for popular photo and video formats enables you to share your photo animations nearly anywhere
Access complete photo editing and graphic design tools with PaintShop Pro 2018
- Enhance photos with a complete set of professional image editing tools for photo adjustment and composition
- Find everything you need to produce a variety of impactful graphic design projects
- Crop, straighten, and use one-click auto adjustments to fix any image, fast
- Achieve a signature look for your photo with fun filters and effects
- Enjoy faster results and improved tools
- Remove small scratches, erase entire backgrounds, correct red eye, and more

AUDIO

Capture and edit audio
- Convert audio files from almost any format to any other format
- Import and capture music from virtually any source, including CDs, LPs, tapes, and the web
- Digitize your analog LPs and tape cassettes
- Rip* music from CDs or DVDs to almost any format
- Convert audiobook* CDs to digital files and play back on your Apple or Android devices, and other portable devices–even add chapters
- Automatically add title, artist, and genre information to your music tracks—even those captured from Internet radio or streaming music services
- Create smooth party mixes and mash-ups with synchronized beat matching between tracks
- Auto-trim silence in recorded music tracks to eliminate annoying gaps Edit your audio tracks, enhance them, remove unwanted noise, clean up noise, and more using the Sound Editor

DATA

Cleanup your hard drive with Roxio Genie
- Organize your hard drives and identify long-forgotten, duplicate, or unnecessary files
- Easily manage your files by deleting, moving, copying, or uploading to a cloud service
- Quickly remove junk and temporary files from your system with Quick Cleanup functions
- Easily browse your drives and folders and identify file sizes, clean up your files, and reclaim some hard drive space with the Disc Explorer
- Scan your drive and identify duplicate files
- Quickly rename and organize files into folders and enjoy other file renaming rules and patterns using a batch file renaming program
Encrypt and secure files
- Burn data to disc or save to USB and monitor activity with Roxio Burn 4
- Enable logging to keep track of a variety of burning information, including date, computer name, user name, files, and folders
- Secure data on disc or USB drive with encryption and passwords
- Set password protocols and control when and how passwords are applied – even set master passwords
- View activity logs and keep track of what you burn and when
- Add and remove encrypted data to your removable media
Back up your files with BackOnTrack 4
- Back up your entire hard disc including the operating system, files, settings, and programs
- Back up your files to ensure data never gets misplaced or corrupted
- Back up your favorite audio, movies, or TV shows from any iPod® to your PC

Requirements

To run Roxio Creator NXT Pro 7 with optimum reliability and performance, your system should match the following requirements:

Internet connection required for product installation, registration, product updates, and some features
Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8.x, Windows 7 SP1
Hard drive with at least 4 GB free space for installation
Multi-core processor highly recommended
- For data burning and copy, audio capture, and editing: Intel® 1.6GHz Pentium 4 Processor or AMD equivalent, 1GB RAM
- For video or photo editing, conversion, and playback: Intel Pentium 4 2GHz processor or AMD equivalent and 2GB RAM
1024×768 DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with at least 16-bit color setting, sound card, DVD-ROM drive
Internet Explorer 7 and above
Windows Media Player version 10 and above
QuickTime player version 7 and iTunes® version 11 or above required for some functionality
For burning and disc copy:
- MyDVD video disc authoring requires 64-bit OS
- DVD and BD copy, as well as video editing and authoring, may require a large amount of free disk space, up to 10’s of GB
For video capture:
- OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 FireWire card for use with DV cameras or Roxio Video Capture USB for analog sources