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RipRoar - Creation Station | 
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| Brand: Manley
Category: Toy
List Price: $129.99
Buy New: $15.49
You Save: $114.50 (88%)
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Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 5950
Batteries Included: No
Age: 8 - 13 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.8
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 9.7 x 12
MPN: 34726
Model: 34726
UPC: 026753347261
EAN: 0026753347261
ASIN: B000NI2Y76
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Easily create, share, and star in videos, just like the pros! | | • | The Green Screen technology allows you to "knock out" the background, replacing it with any image or video that you want! | | • | Full editing suite allows you to easily add-in and manipulate extra objects, pictures, sound f/x, and music | | • | Get extra content and files from bonus CD, your computer, or the internet | | • | Post your finished creations on the internet, or burn yourself a DVD and One-click upload to YouTube, and other video sharing websites. |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The Creation Station allows you to film, edit, and share amazing videos, so that you can display your creativity to the world. Using the included green screen, integrated software, and one-click upload, the possibilities are endless! For example, you can easily make it look like you are surfing down a mountain, next to a bear who's telling you a joke, with fish flying over your head! What can I do with it?
- Easily create, share, and star in videos, just like the pros!
- The Green Screen technology allows you to "knock out" the background, replacing it with any image or video that you want!
- Full editing suite allows you to easily add-in and manipulate extra objects, pictures, sound f/x, and music
- Get extra content and files from bonus CD, your computer, or the internet
- Post your finished creations on the internet, or burn yourself a DVD
- One-click upload to YouTube, and other video sharing websites
What does it include?
- Video Camera with full 640x480 resolution and 30fps
- Large Green Screen (118"x72"), and easy-to-use Green Screen Software
- Built-in Microphone, LED Lighting, and USB cord
- Adjustable Tripod
- Bonus CD with hundreds of backgrounds, videos, objects, pictures, and sounds!
System Requirements:
- Microsoft Windows XP / Windows Vista
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or Higher
- Microsoft DirectX 9.0 or Higher
- Intel Pentium III / AMD Athlon Processor - 800 MHZ or Higher
- 256 MB RAM or Higher
- 20 MB Hard Disk Space
- USB 2.0 Port
- CD-ROM drive (CD/DVD RW drive for movie output)
- Graphic display card with 16MB DDR RAM or Higher
- Windows Compatible Sound Card
**For the best experience with the Creation Station, please carefully follow the CD Installation guide on www.RipRoarMedia.com after purchase**
Amazon.com Product Description
This toy is perfect for budding directors, actors, or kids who just want to explore creative options. RipRoar's Creation Station is an all-inclusive system for setting up, filming, editing, and uploading videos. Hardware includes a full-resolution camera, tripod, and green screen--simply hang the screen, point the camera at it, and start filming. Then use the integrated software and included CD to edit the action, replace the green screen with background images, drop in sound or visual effects, and add music. Once your masterpiece is complete, there's a one-click feature that lets you upload your film to YouTube or other online video sharing site. Now all you have to do is pop the corn and write that Oscar acceptance speech.  | | Everything you need to create, edit, and upload your own personal video is in this set. |
What's In the Box
- Camera
- Tripod
- 9.8-by-6 foot green screen
- Software
- CD with sound effects, music, backgrounds, animations, and objects
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| Customer Reviews: Read 35 more reviews...
 Lots of fun! August 26, 2008
Grace Larsen (Council Bluffs, IA USA)
I bought this for my grandson and he really loves it. Someone complicated, but still fun.
 Yep, its bad. July 21, 2008
Amy Humphries (New Jersey)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this on clearance at Kmart, thinking it sounded interesting, and in the worst case at least I got a green screen. That's about all I got. And since the green screen comes in two pieces, I imagine the seams will cause issues.
I actually got it installed and the software running. But the video stream flickers between what's actually in front of the camera and some previously recorded image. Then it eventually crashes the software. I downloaded an open source webcam program to see if it will work with that, and it had the same problem, and crashed that too.
You can't even use the software with another webcam. It won't start unless the RipRoar camera is plugged in.
Awful Camera, Tripod, & Software... Good Green Screen July 6, 2008
CFH (Blue Ridge Summit, PA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This product, as a package, is really very bad and not worth the retail price. Here is what you get and my comments:
1)Camera - Very bad image quality, but the built in LED lighting is fairly good. NOT standalone, must be connected to a PC.
2)Tripod - Just awful, seriously useless flimsy piece of plastic.
3)Door Clips - OK for what they are (plastic clips to hang the included Green Scree material)
4)Sticky Tape - OK for what it is (tape to hang the included Green Screen material to a wall, etc)
5)Instruction Manual - Not very good, poorly written
6)Quick Start Guide - Just useless
7)Installation Disk - This is a mixed bag. A) the software installation is problematic (see comments below), B) the editing software is somewhat unstable, C) the included "Bonus" material is actually fairly good and useful (include Sound FX, Music Clips, Video Clips, and Backgrounds)
8)Green Screen - Surprisingly good! This material comes in two sections with Velcro fasteners so you can use a small or large area. This fabric was worth the price I paid (see below).
9)USB Cable - A good quality cable, but a little short if connecting to a desktop/tower PC.
Installing the included software was a rough experience on my XP laptop and it ultimately failed due to, I suspect, my 1.0 USB ports (MUST HAVE USB 2.0). It was a much better experience on my son's Vista laptop, which installed it without much problem at all. As noted above, the camera quality was not very good and the editing software is hard to use.
My recommendation: If you are interested in Chromakey (Green/Blue Screening) buy the Creation Station at one of the auction sites (I found a lot of 5 for the retail price of 1 here), keep the included "Bonus" material and Green Screen fabric, use the Camera & Tripod as "props", buy a cheap web cam or Flip Video (just love that product!), and Sony Vegas 8 Studio (really good inexpensive editing software with Chromakey).
WONDERFUL FOR THE KIDS June 18, 2008
simone sheffield (USA)
WONDERFUL TO KEEP THE KIDS BUSY ALL WEEKEND LONG AND BE CREATIVE AT THE SAME TIME.
Great concept...lousy execution... June 17, 2008
S. Roche (Chicago, IL)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was excited about purchasing this product as a gift for my 11 year old son. However, it was a losing situation all the way around. The hardware is made of cheap plastic that was broken before ever being opened. And it went downhill from there because the software won't work without the hardware. The only thing of value that I saw was the green screen, which I thought was nice. However, not for the money. We ended up getting charged a restocking fee from Amazon when we returned it, even though it was broken. So between shipping fees and restocking fees, I lost about 25% of what I paid without getting anything useable. Definitely not worth the time or money.
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