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Freemake Video Converter is a very easy All-In-One converter. Convert video between formats (AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, SWF, 3GP, MPEG, FLV, M2TS, WebM, OGG), create custom presets, cut, rotate, convert to devices, rip & burn DVD, and upload to YouTube. Embed/burn in subtitles. CUDA support. Requires .NET Framework 4.0. NOTE! This is ADWARE, it includes a browser toolbar(bing or facemoods). It can be disabled when installing.
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Latest version: 3.0.2 (March 20, 2012) Download sites: Visit developer's site More download options: Supported operating systems: Windows
Sections/Browse similar tools: All In One DVD Converters, All In One Video Converters, Video Encoders / Converters, Video Encoders (AVI/WMV), Video Encoders (H264/MP4/MKV), Video Encoders (MPG/DVD) |
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3.0.2 View full changelog March 20, 2012 Added the possibility to download iFrame embedded YouTube videos Added the support for TED.com Fixed the issue with downloading from Vimeo, TubePlus and other sites All features / Full description: Freemake Video Converter accepts virtually any video file you can dream of as an input: AVI, MP4, MKV, WMV, MPG, 3GP, 3G2, SWF, FLV, TOD, AVCHD, MOV, DV, RM, QT, TS, MTS, M2TS, Blu-ray and many more. Import music (MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV), and photos (JPG, BMP, PNG,GIF) to turn them into video.
Convert to iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, PS3, Android Optimize videos for Apple, Sony, and Android devices. Convert videos to iPod Classic, iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod 5G, iPhone, iPad, Sony PSP, PS2, PS3, BlackBerry, Xbox, Apple TV, Android mobile devices, smartphones, etc. Output to AVI, WMV, MP4, MKV, SWF, MPG, 3GP, , FLV Convert video to the most popular video formats. Rip unprotected DVDs. Use Freemake Video Converter as AVI converter or 3GP converter. Convert video and audio files to MP3 with our free video converter. Advanced Preset Editor Take total control of the output result by customizing conversion parameters. Create your own presets by establishing video and audio codecs, frame size, frame rate, sample size, and sample rate. Choose a proper icon, and save you custom preset for further usage. Fastest Video Converter with CUDA Due to the integrated CUDA technology, you can benefit from very fast video encoding and less CPU usage using our free video converter. Just enable CUDA on your PC! Upload Video, Photos, MP3 to YouTube Upload videos, photo slideshows, MP3 to YouTube with our video converter. Upload AVI, WMV, MP4, 3GP, JPG, BMP, GIF, MP3 to YouTube. The program will cut videos (if required) into 15-minute parts and insert them into one YouTube playlist. Burn DVD - up to 40 hours! Unlike other software, our video converter doesn't have a two-hour limit and allows to burn up to 20 hours of video to a Standard DVD or 40 hours to DVD-DL. Choose DVD menu type: thumbnail, motion, text. Make Slideshows and Visualizations Turn photos and MP3 into slideshows with background music. Create music visualizations by converting audio to video. Upload your photos and music to YouTube. Cut, Join, Rotate, Limit output size, and more Cut unwanted parts from video files, use scene searching option. Rotate or flip video. Join several videos into one file to get a full-length film. Fit the output file size to any limit (e.g. 700 Mb, 1.4 Gb, 4.7 Gb).
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Very good UI design. I'm impressed! Unfortunately it cannot process my MXF files correctly :-( The generated MP4 file has only still image without sound. Hope this can be improved in future updates.
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Why is this singled out as "adware" when you can choose NOT to install the stupid toolbar thing? Many (most?) "free" apps these days come packaged with stupid toolbars, which you can elect to ignore.
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Good product; I even burned a dual-layer DVD movie with it after ripping with DVDfab and it did it flawlessly. For downloading and converting FLV videos to mpg3 works a treat.So far I am impressed with it. I can understand why we have to be careful, but I have this locked from sending out with Comodo and so far no attempts. I think they may be a bit secretive from a copyright safety standpoint. I suspect that they are working out any bugs for now and eventually will package it as a "for sale" product. Can't blame them.
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Yes @Khalua its very important not to allow russians to spy on us ! PS. By the way when (for example) Google do its OK .
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The last post is quite interesting. I found a bit more information: "About Ellora Assets Corp. Ellora Assets Corp. (http://www.freemake.com) is a fast growing IT company with divisions in the USA and Russian Federation." Source: http://business.argylenews.com/press_release.aspx ... ideo-11553 By the way, if anyone wants co contact Elena Vakhromova directly, here's some contact info: Elena Vakhromova, PR Manager, Ellora Assets Corporation, email: pr@freemake.com, phone: +13235453897 (Source: http://www.computercurrents.com/en/home/183-softw ... logy.html)
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@y0himba You are not alone. As you said Ellora Assets Corporation is located in Seychelles. Some facts: 1. Even is Ellora Assets Corporation claims to be in Seychelles but the HQ are located in LA. 2. The developers are RUSSIAN. 3. Ellora Assets Corporation statement: Freemake.com project is financed by a private sponsor who wants to deliver quality software to the world market. 4. Elena Vakhromova is their PR: http://labs.mirror.me/googleplus/101812110339980409519 http://twitter.com/#!/_elv_ https://plus.google.com/101812110339980409519/plusones http://www.quora.com/Elena-Vakhromova http://www.linkedin.com/in/elenavakhromova Who is the mysterious private sponsor? Another russian who needs to collect our computer data through freemakeutilsservice.exe? That's why all Freemake products are free?
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From Facebook: Hi everybody, as promised yersterday we released an update with the fix of all found issues related to FreemakeUtilsService. 1. Now FreemakeUtilService which aroused so much concern is installed only upon user's permission who wants to help improve Freemake. The bug with the running service was fixed. 2. The service is uninstalled if software is uninstalled, no files are left. This was fixed too. 3. If the service was installed with the previous software version, a user can opt out in the new version. In this case the service will be automatically removed from PC. Here to avoid confusion brought by some people we'd like to stress once again that the service didn't send before and doesn't send now any data if a user opted out. The only function of the aforementioned service is to collect our software usage stats which will allow us to improve Freemake further, to your benefit. In case of a crash report a user is asked an additional permission to send a report through dedicated message window. If permitted, the service runs when a user is online to synchronyze with our server for best time to send crash reports and usage stats. This is done to avoid our server time overload. A user is given full information about the service via a link to a webpage during software installation.
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They have removed the majority of my posts on Facebook with test result and concerns over the service. They are trying to make folks think I am a "competitor", although I drive a bus. Further concerns, I just looked on their website, and was a bit concerned to see the bottom: Quote © 2010-2011 Ellora Assets Corporation. Privacy policy Terms of use. That's exactly what the footer has on it. Or, in case the obviousness is lost in the quote: there are no actual links. I didn't see any such pages by browsing to other pages either. More concerning even is their Wikipedia page, which has a section about a licensing controversy: Quote FFmpeg has added Freemake Video Converter to its Hall of Shame. An issue tracker entry for this product, opened on 16 December 2010, says it is in violation of GNU General Public License as it is distributing components of FFmpeg project without including due credit. Ellora Assets Corporation has not responded yet. In other words, you are dealing with a company that (despite all of the 'social media buttons' on its front page) lacks the capacity to communicate and/or doesn't give a crap about licenses. It is probably a single individual running this entire site, but even if that isn't the case they operate under the guise of a company. As such they should be held to the standards of one. Throw in the fact that they censor the social media stuff about that service, and little remains to trust them with.
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Just to add to previous postings, there is quite a heated discussion on the freemake facebook page about this issue. Freemake is defending themselves saying it's all innocent, and plan to release another version soon that resolves these issues & make everyone happy. We shall wait & see??
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Hmmm, the more I look, the more interesting this becomes. As mentioned in my previous post, parts of the the "Freemake" folder can be deleted (once the "utilities service" is stopped), and the program still works. HOWEVER, when you uninstall the program, this folder is NOT removed!!! Something else was brought to my attention here -> http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/freemake.com?page=2 If you look at the very last post, it mentions a trojan and a worm. The two files mentioned are found in a rather bland looking folder called "COM" that the program installs OUTSIDE the installation folder. It contains, among other things, the dvd burning component and some other stuff. Interestingly, you can delete the two .exe files in the folder, and the program still starts up - though I assume it won't burn any dvds. However, if you delete FMMediaUtils.dll or FMVideoConverterLib.dll the program crashes. I guess I can understand the second one causing problems, but the "utils" thing, which the poster before me alluded to, really does make me wonder. Anyway, I've now followed his lead and have removed the program - again. If you decide to do the same, run regedit and remove the Freemake entries by hand; the uninstall routine doesn't do it.
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Here are a couple of solutions for the issue mentioned by the last poster. To prevent "freemakeutilsservice.exe" from starting when you boot up your machine, use a program like Autoruns (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902) to find the registry entry and uncheck it. Another, more drastic, approach is the one I took: You simply delete the ENTIRE Freemake folder that the program installs to your "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\" folder (at least that's what happens in XP). It includes the Utility and a couple other components. As far as my testing has shown, part of the folder is rebuilt when you run the program, but not the "Utility" component. The program itself appears to work fine without the "Utility Service", though I don't know what would happen if you encountered a crash. My fundamental suspicion, however, remains unmitigated.
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I have said nice things about this software before, but I've just noticed "freemakeutilsservice.exe" in my task manager. It loads up automatically, even when Freemake is not running. The official excuse is "it is used to send crash reports", but why is it running when I'm not even using Freemake? With regrets I am uninstalling this until the developers come clean about this.
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Although I remain a cynic about the company and its motives (but that's my problem, not theirs), I have to be fair and confess that I was stuck this morning and this program saved me. It installs fast, is easy as pie to use, and - at least in this case - does what it promises. I just can't help wondering why it's free ;-) Anyway, my thanks to Freemake.
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FFMpeg had listed Ellora Assets Corporation in there "Hall of Shame", FFMpeg says it is in violation of GNU General Public License as it is distributing components of FFmpeg project without including due credit. Ellora Assets Corporation has not responded yet. Whatever way this goes down, as a user, I have to give the software a solid 10 across the board. As I previously stated, the company cannot be any worse than say Microsoft or Apple, two companies which spend a great deal of time and money on attorneys.
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You do raise a good point... I have ALWAYS trusted "tools" posted at videohelp.com! But that's under the presumption that Baldrick filters all the software that comes his way with stringent anti-virus scanning etc... Is this really the case? Does Baldrick check everything that comes through to his "Tools" list? I hope so. Having said that, I like Freemake Video Converter, and I use the "visualisation" stuff quite often, it's great!
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"... they can't be any worse than the known entities like Microsoft and Apple ..." With all due respect to the person who made the previous comment, I'm afraid I don't see the comparison at all. The two companies mentioned are gigantic and super rich. Of course both also provide lots of reasons for not liking them. Mentioning Ellora Assets Corporation in the same breath as either, though, is like comparing any of the unknown musicians on YouTube - many of whom are admittedly very talented - with the stars whose works they cover. If it makes and difference, I apologize here and now to Ellora Assets Corporation for "sentencing them without a trial". Having said that, I stay by my contention that any company that puts on such a big show of altruism - especially one whose name contains the words "Assets Corporation" - deserves to be met with some skepticism. I guess I'd compare them more with DVDVideoSoft Limited, but even the latter is a bit more transparent in regard to its business model. By the way, I don't use their products either.
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It's free, it all works, it has yet to choke on any video I've converted, or any video I've extracted audio from. I really like shockwave flash function that builds script code for my web pages. It's really a superb piece of software, frequently updated to stay with current technologies. I don't know a thing about the Company, but they can't be any worse than the known entities like Microsoft and Apple, which don't offer anything like it for free.
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I guess I'm paranoid, but I've dumped this program because I simply can't warm up to the developers, Ellora Assets Corporation. They're located in the Seychelles (maybe I'm jealous) and don't say a word about themselves except that they're committed to free software. A Google search reveals that they keep their cards held very close to their chests. I guess what made me suspicious is that after a relatively long period of stagnation, they've come out with three updates in a matter of days/weeks. Seems like a simple trick: a nice, free program - update one, cool, update two, no problem, ... update seven ... I won't even check it with my anti-virus program ... bingo, gotcha'. I'll repeat, "I guess I'm paranoid, but ...". If anyone can find out anything about the company, please post it. Thanks. JG Berlin
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Not bad. It encoder very good,and high speed. Some filter like crop, shar, denoise and many other are missing, but it accept .AVS avisynth script. Encoded can be improved just a bit. sometimes high speed produce not accurate frames or bad black compression. Very very good for 2 passes on CUDA.
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After searching for days and trying other Freeware, Shareware & trying out products like Nero I had about given up finding a decent product to convert MP4 files and burn the to DVD. I would either get something that would take 3+ hours or would only play on my laptop, or I would get sound only and a garbled picture or a great picture and NO sound at all. Then I stumbled upon Freemake Video Converter. This is an excellent, easy to use and doing it right the first time product. And it's Free!
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Tried this back in December 2010 to transcode NTSC 1080i captures with my Hauppauge 1212 to 23.976 MKV and found the software identified the stream as 25fps and the resulting conversion was poor quality. However, the latest version has improved significantly and the resulting output is quite good, but it continues to identify the NTSC 1080i stream as 25fps.
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The "visualization" thing is nice! For anybody wanting a TRUE "one-click" converter app, I would recommend this. Seems to work fine, quality is good, and even does auto menus. Of course most folk here would not be interested, but there are plenty of folk out there who want this sort of ultra-simplicity. And most free "one-click" converters aren't truly "one-click". This one is!
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same open source codes as so many apps no betterr no worse u get wot u pay 4
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A few issues need clarification from the previous post: The DVD preset generates high bitrate (9000Kbps) MPEG-2 video and is meant to be burned to DVD-Video. Xvid/DivX (MPEG-4) would of course compress better, and is not meant for DVD-Video output. Most output options CAN be customized in the way of bitrate, framerate, etc. Those options (when available) are to be found under "Edit Preset", so you could view most presets as templates that can be customized to a user's particular needs. I have found FVC to be an exceptionally consistent and well executed piece of software, capable of generating output quality, in a multitude of formats, which is second to none. I am very impressed with FVC, and now use it for most of my DVD and Blu-ray disc creation when speed and quality are paramount.
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my only complaint is that you cant set the output size. I did an mkv (5gb's) recently down to "dvd" and it sized it at 1.35gb's. With that kinda logic it would have been better and faster to just use a xvid/divx codec instead. Other than that its a pretty fast piece of software and super simple to use. Output quality on other formats is decent. Would be nice to have more customizable options for those who like to tinker with size/bitrate etc.
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