REVIEW: Roxio MyDVD 10 Premier

The quick and easy route to the Hollywood A-list?

This package is made up of a number of programs intended to help users edit camcorder footage or digital photos and output the results to a format that can be easily shared – either as a DVD movie or slideshow, a portable media file or direct to YouTube. And many of the components are already present in the popular and excellent Media Creator 10 Suite, which also comes with lots of additional features for digitising LPs and tapes, capturing audio, enhancing tracks and the like for just £10 more.

The main applications here are Videowave and Photosuite, but the suite also includes a fairly competent media-management program, a label creator, a format converter and a number of useful utilities for importing, enhancing and viewing video and photos.

There is not a massive amount of ground breaking going on here, but if MyDVD 10 Premier has one outstanding selling point it would be its slick, easy-to-use presentation. From the launch screen, it is easy to choose which application to use, either by task or by name. Each program follows a similar workflow too, so it is easy to get the hang of. There are also the obligatory one-click automated movie-creation tools.

Distributors: Blue Solutions, Gem, Ingram Micro