A true all-around application for working with your videos, audio, and photos, as well as an intuitive means for archiving your files to discs, Roxio Creator NXT Pro 3 from Corel offers a variety of editing, management, and sharing tools for a multimedia workflow. Videographers benefit from the inclusion of FastFlick for quick, three-step editing of movies and slideshows, which can be enhanced by adding Nature, Enhance & Style, or Green Screen effects. A host of tools for mixing and fine-tuning audio are also available, including the ability to produce advanced playlists, record LPs and cassette tapes, and extract audio from video sources. For still imaging, PaintShop Pro X6 is included, along with HDR 3 Express, for a versatile set of photo editing tools for enhancing, adjusting, and compositing imagery. Rounding out the trio of multimedia applications is an advanced burning and archiving utility for saving files to CD, DVD, or Blu-ray discs, encrypting backups, and producing disc images for easy copying. Comprising a wealth of tools to suit multimedia users, this suite affords advanced control in three distinct mediums, with the added ability to combine editing abilities for stills, movies, and sound.
Video and Movies
Slideshows and Videos
Movies or slideshows can be quickly created in three steps using FastFlick. Begin by selecting a template, then add your media, and finally share your movie online to social media sites or save to a variety of video file formats.
Capture from Your Screen
Videos can be recorded directly from your screen and then edit, save, and share your project with Live Screen Capture. This is ideal for creating how-to and tech support videos.
Add a Soundtrack
Choose from 17 different royalty-free tracks from Triple Scoop Music for adding music to your video.
Convert Video for Devices
DVD video, web video, and any other video file type can be converted to various formats for easier playback on iPads, iPods, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and other mobile and multimedia devices.
Versatile Video Editing
Standard definition and HD videos can be edited and enhanced using picture-in-picture effects, titles, and scrolling credits. Videos can also be rotated with a single click and color, brightness, and contrast can be automatically adjusted.
Capture Streaming Web Videos
Video from YouTube and other video streaming sites can be saved to your computer and formatted for playback on a TV or mobile device.
Hollywood Style Video Effects
Eight different Nature effects can be applied for added for creativity, and include fire, fog, rainfall, snow storm, smoke, fireworks, fairy dust, and sparks. Six Enhance & Style effects are also available, and include Aged Film, Skew, Destabilize, Interference, Newsprint, and Visual Harmonizer.
Green Screen Effects
Composite yourself into various backgrounds using green screen effects, where you can position subjects against different images to create a surreal context or make a presentation with pertinent facts or diagrams behind the presenter.
Stabilize and Rotate Video
Videos can be rotated using a single click and shaky video can be reduced for smoother playback quality.
Personalize DVDs, Even in 3D
Finished movies can be personalized through the use of custom standard and high-resolution menu styles, and animated themes and music can also be added-even when working in 3D.
Music and Audio
Create Mixes and Playlists
Music playlists can be created to suit any occasion and a beat matching feature will automatically synchronize rhythms from song to song.
Sound Editor
Audio tracks can be fine-tuned by trimming unwanted parts, multiple tracks can be combined, the volume can be normalized across the mix, and creative effects can also be added. Advanced playlists can also be produced using cross-fades, transitions, and audio mash-ups.
iZotope Music and Speech Cleaner
Helping to produce clean audio quality, this function helps to remove unwanted noise and increase clarity on LP or cassette recordings as well as improve the audio quality on video recordings.
Preserve LPs and Tapes
Records and cassette tapes can be digitized and the sound can be cleaned up for clear listening. These files can then be converted to various file formats for convenient playback on mobile devices or CDs.
Background Music Tracks
Three volumes of Scorefitter music libraries are available and contain a wide variety of original, royalty-free music and sound effects for enhancing video projects. Scorefitter places these sounds on your audio timeline and automatically adjusts the track length to your movie clip.
Extract Audio from a Video File
The audio track from a video you recorded or saved from YouTube can be extracted, edited, and saved as a file format that is easily playable on your computer or mobile device.
Automatically Add Audio Information
Automatically add title, artist, and genre information to your audio files without having to retype after initially saving. This is ideally suited for audio captured online, from LPs or tapes, or streaming music services.
Capture Web Audio
Roxio Easy Audio Capture allows you to record any audio being heard on your computer, regardless of its source.
Create Custom Ringtones
Ringtones can be produced using any available audio and saved for use with your mobile phone.
Photo and Sharing
PaintShop Pro X6
A versatile photo editing application designed to handle all aspects of your still imaging post-production, PaintShop Pro X6 combines a wealth of features for retouching, fine-tuning, and creatively enhancing the look of photos.
- A tabbed workspace offers intuitive navigation throughout the program: the Manage tab allows you to browse, tag, and organize images; the Adjust tab contains tools for cropping, straightening, and retouching photos; and the Edit tab offers more tools for creatively refining the look of imagery.
- Layer-based workflow allows you to make unique composites, masks, and selections and easily undo adjustments without affecting the original file.
- A dedicated red-eye removal tool pairs with brushes to remove blemishes, unwanted lines, wrinkles, whiten teeth, and smooth skin tones for polished portraits.
- For compositing imagery, the Object Extractor tool can be used to mask and select portions of an image, extract selections, and place selections on new backgrounds.
- For automatically enhancing the look of photos, Smart Photo Fix quickly corrects color, exposure, and lighting issues. Corrections are offered as suggestions and can be accepted, rejected, or fine-tuned based on your preferred final results.
- Advanced text editing allows you to add captions or other text to a photo, as well as adjust the font, size, style, alignment, leading and kerning, and add other text effects.
- A variety of built-in brushes, including a paint brush, air brush, and fill and color changer options can be used to add an illustrative touch to photos. Adobe Photoshop brushes can also be imported and vector illustration tools allow you to draw with preset shapes, pens, and add text along a path.
HDR 3 Express
Helping to achieve an extended dynamic range, this feature aids in achieving extended shadow and highlight detail, along with a broader range of mid-tones, for eye-catching high dynamic range photos. Within this utility you can also configure various output preferences and create, edit, import, and export different custom presets, preferences, and histogram adjustment techniques.
Restore Old Photos
Helping to restore old photographs, you can easily remove scratches and dust, fix, or crop ragged and torn edges, adjust exposure and color, and straighten its alignment.
Panoramic Photographs
Two or more photos can be stitched together to create sweeping panoramic images that capture a wide field of view.
Collages
Ideal for scrapbooks or use as wallpaper on your computer, collages can quickly be made using numerous individual images.
Share to Social Media
Photos and video stories can easily be posted directly to Facebook, YouTube, or other social media sites.
Data and Copy
Burning to Discs
A variety of tools are available for quickly and easily burning files to CDs, DVDs, or Blu-ray discs. Large projects can also be spanned across multiple discs.
Roxio Secure Burn
Using Roxio Secure Burn, data can be encrypted and password-protected when burning to CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs.
Automatic Backups
Unattended backups to disc can be scheduled for consistent and organized records of your files.
Drag-and-Drop Interface
An intuitive drag-and-drop interface allows you to easily organize and compile a variety of files for burning to a disc.
Custom DVD Compilations
An entire 9 GB DVD movie can be copied onto a standard 4.7 GB DVD and custom DVD compilations can be created, with up to 4 hours of video on a single disc.
Burn a DVD from an ISO Image File
For archiving your productions or making numerous DVD copies, you can output an ISO image file to a hard drive for quickly burning subsequent copies of the disc's contents.