Alternative to Freemake?

[BamaTanya]

I've used Freemake, but it suddenly stopped recognizing pasted URLs. I decided to uninstall, but then the latest reviews were poor for the latest version.
I appreciate your recommendations!

[horsemom2]

Depends on what you are trying to do.
There are two Freemake products I still use
(gold) Freemake Video Converter
and
(blue) Freemake Video Downloader

gold is great for converting, editing, ripping dvds and burning dvdrs but does not access as many websites as blue for downloading.
Best alternative for ripping dvds has been Handbrake
Windows Live Movie Maker can edit

alternatives for blue is the Chrome Video Downloader Professional extension or Firefox Download Helper extension
more downloading tips here
http://neverendingplateau.blogspot.c...ing-video.html

more tips about installing either Freemake product here
http://neverendingplateau.blogspot.c...warebytes.html

I am only trying to help and do not work for any company.

ETA: you can use Windows Live Movie Maker to burn dvdrs too but I have not tried that in a long time because there used to be a 2 hour footage limit and it took forever. I burn around 8 hours on a dvdr and found a good alternative was burning avi files as data files which play on my new LG DP 132 dvd player from Walmart. A burn takes less than 10 minutes now and the files can easily be copied back to my lap top. Freemake took 90 minutes to burn 8 hours of footage into a dvd movie

Barb S

[Usia]

Originally Posted by BamaTanya

I've used Freemake, but it suddenly stopped recognizing pasted URLs. I decided to uninstall, but then the latest reviews were poor for the latest version.
I appreciate your recommendations!

I had to uninstall and install it again just last week for the same reason. I'm having no problems with the "new" Freemake. My new Freemake is the same as old was: converter - gold, and downloader - blue. No problems whatsoever using it.

[Joni O]

I had the same problem and Barb told me about Downloader versus Converter. Downloader downloads in a fraction of the time it takes Converter. I download from YouTube (or wherever) to my hard drive and burn from there to DVD.

[BamaTanya]

Thank you all! I just downloaded both. Success!

[horsemom2]

Just a small warning. When using blue, double check you got all the files you wanted because sometimes blue repeats the previous file url instead of the new url file when downloading more than one file a session.

Barb S

[Joni O]

Thanks. I didn't realize more than one file can be downloaded at once. I've been doing one at a time.

[hotncmom]

I use DVDVideoSoft

http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/

[horsemom2]

Originally Posted by Joni O

Thanks. I didn't realize more than one file can be downloaded at once. I've been doing one at a time.

even when doing one at a time, the previous file may duplicate

Barb S

[primrosecat]

How do you burn the downloads to dvd? My downloaded files are not 'recognized' even tho they are mp4, so I can't burn them!? Even my savvy son can't figure it out.