PC Magazine takes a quick look at Roxio Easy Media Creator 7

Another dramatically enhanced component in Creator 7 is its VideoWave 7 video editor, which now approaches the power of standalone applications like Pinnacle Studio. VideoWave offers both timeline-view and storyboard-view editing, powerful 3D animated titling features, and a generous assortment of imaginative transitions, filters, effects, and video overlay capabilities. In addition to the seven video, audio, and overlay tracks located on its standard project timeline, the program lets you open an additional nested seven-track timeline for each piece of content, making it possible to generate picture-in-picture overlays, animate several blocks of text simultaneously, and produce a variety of other sophisticated effects. If all this isn't enough, VideoWave even provides a pair of automated movie production wizards (think muvee's autoProducer applet) that generate flashy effects-laden music videos and produce event-themed template movies that you can customize with your own clips, titles, and effects.

Creator 7's DVD Builder authoring module isn't nearly as flexible, but it gains synergistic power from its tight integration with the rest of the suite. It shares content seamlessly with VideoWave, and both applications employ the same Roxio Capture utility, which can record live audio/video feeds and even extract content from existing DVD-Video discs and hard-drive DVD folders. Both programs also lay claim to a common output module that lets them export content in either NTSC or PAL format to VCD, SVCD, "DVD-on-CD," and standard DVD-Video discs, as well as to MPEG, AVI, WMV, and DivX files, e-mail messages, online video-sharing services, and to external analog and digital devices like TVs, VCRs, and camcorders.