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.
  • 1024x768 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

  • ISO, C2D, BIN/CUE and GI; write ISO and GI
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Roxio Creator 2012

Pros
Much more than a video editor, Roxio Creator includes functionality for photo and sound editing, plus much more.

Cons
The software is not compatible with Mac OSX and doesn't export MOV files.

The Verdict

As a piece of software, the versatility and functionality of Roxio Creator is hard to overstate.