Review by Jed Shlackman

The latest Roxio software is designed as a full suite of multimedia creating and burning applications. This is a major evolution from Roxio’s roots as a CD/DVD burning software. By making the software so comprehensive Roxio has made it much more memory intensive and time consuming to install and explore. It’s got a lot of useful resources for editing video (works with HD and 3D video) and audio and converting between formats, so if you do a lot of multimedia editing this is helpful, but if you just need something to burn or rip CDs, DVDs, or Blu-Ray then this software is unnecessary given the simpler alternatives that are available. For Blu-Ray an additional plugin for authoring must be purchased separately from Roxio if you just have this standard edition of NXT 3. I found that this software is a lot to install and explore - it has lots of impressive features and can function as a multimedia production studio package. For 3D and HD video you will want a fast processor and lots of available storage. This software is something that will take some time to master, and it is only for Windows operating systems. So far it seems to function well, though I don’t think I will be using all the features that it provides so I may not have as much input as someone who does more sophisticated editing work.