Freemake

I used freemake for about 7 or 8 years & i thought it was the greatest program i had ever used, i suggested it to everyone because it did EVERYTHING & it was the simplest easiest to use program i knew of... i never had an issue with it, ever... then one day they started nickel & diming... suddenly one day, their name is branded across your video... want it removed? Gotta pay this amount... your video used to take a few hours to convert now it takes over 24 hours? Pay this amount to speed it back up... want to use that feature that you've always used? Now its gonna cost this amount... your dvd used to take an hour to burn? Well now it's going to take more than 24 hours to burn, unless you pay this amount... oh you already paid for all services? Well we're gonna add new features that aren't covered in that so you can pay again... for 7 or 8 years, i rarely ever had to update the program, but now i'm constantly having to DL the new updates to avoid the program crashing but you never know what new changes you're going to get with the updates... it sucks because this is really a great program that is incredibly useful... but the companies new blackmail type of business practice makes it not worth the hassle

Just used freemake video converter again since January 2020. Current month is October 2020. Freemake forced an update and now it takes 30 minutes to convert a 30 min video. What happened?, this video would've taken 5 minutes or less back in January. The whole time during the conversion it shows how much time is left and below the time/countdown there a button I can click on that says "Speed Up". Now in October, after that forced update, when I click on the convert button it ask me, convert without logo. I selected convert with logo. If you click on convert without logo, it tries to sell you the product. Back in January, it would convert with a logo but it would be at the beginning of the video, but never during the video. I have a feeling the logo is going to be a watermark throughout the video. I'll see when the 30 minute conversion is finished. Freakin Freemake, yes there's now a watermark in the middle of the entire video that says, "To convert without Freemake logo, use Freemake mega pack". I will be uninstalling Freemake from my PCs. I hate when companies start to nickel and dime their customers. This product gets no more recommendations from me. It sucks, this program used to good.

I convinced my job to purchase Freemake Video Converter a couple years ago but I haven't used it for awhile. Tomorrow I will test it. I'll try to use it without updating if it will let me.

I bought this program, it was for one week, just to convert a home video
I thought it was free, but nope, had to pay for it a dollar for a week
I had to email them to cancel the automatic monthly, weekly payment
They did, but I am not sure it has actually been cancelled, time will tell I guess
It does the job it says it does, but it does seem to want to update nearly every hour, I have no idea why it needs to update, I cant see any difference after an update
But I might use it again without the updates
It does take a long time to convert a video though, even a 7 minute video can take several hours
This program started out as freeware, years ago, but they realised they could make money from it
Cant say I blame em, if the market is there, but they should relabel it, its not free any more, even though its very good at what it does