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