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Scott R.

Owner

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

Originally submitted 6/25/2020

"Easy and Quick to use! Does the job well!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Freemake?

Freemake has a ton of different file formats, as well as built in editing tools to correct aspect ratios, shorten length, and so forth. They have some good guides online and it was a breeze to get started after downloading the product.

You can even save your favorite export settings so can be ready to go each time you need to convert something. This makes it easy to select your presets for different jobs, be it portrait or landscape, higher resolution, etc. You can even suggest a size for freemake to save each file, though it commonly ends up even smaller for me.

It runs very fast, especially if you ever tried online options before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Freemake?

Freemake tends to need to run on its own recently with me, though I admit my PC is older and could be the issue. If I try to run it in the background while doing other tasks, it crashes.

I encourage you to try on a newer machine if you have one before letting this make a decision for you.

It also asks to run a lot of updates, but that's never been a big issue for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Freemake:

I used to use the free version, but recently upgraded to the paid version and found it to be an easier experience. Worth considering as it's a lifetime license.

Be sure you check the presets and check to rotate the video if using portrait. It's easy to do, but commonly with convert your video sideways if you don't double check. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Freemake solving and how is that benefiting you?

#1 is compressing files. It is not always easy to compress your video files, so I can take longer files from my phone, change to mp4 (or whatever type I want), and compress to a much more manageable size.

#2 Easier to use files. Also I am able to convert files from say landscape, or trim the ends of files, very easily and quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.