Hi Gary,

Sorry for that. Could you please send more info to our support email (support@apowersoft.com) ? We'll check it out and fix it. Thank you

Hi Stephen Brown,

sorry for that. Have you activated it? If not, we'll help you activate it free. Our support email (support@apowersoft.com) Thank you.

teo, after 1 year, we can still use it just like their screen recorder. It'll update but there'll be a watermark in the exported video.

Hi Hasegawa,

Thanks for your kindness. We'll add some features in the future which can help customers create photo movies in minutes.

Hi Annavii,

Thanks for your interesting in our program. You may have some suggestions about our video editor. We hope you can send some to our support email (support@apowersoft.com)so that we can make it better.

Hi G,

Thanks for your feedback. This version has a new feature that is you can press Ctrl+B to split your video. In this way, customers can cut their videos more easily. Thank you.

Hi Coal,

Thanks for your sincere comment. It's pretty useful. I guess you're a professional video editor. Maybe you're a great YouTuber~ Could you please send some suggestions to our support email (support@apowersoft.com)? We'll adopt some of them so that we can make this program better and better. And we'll send our Apowersoft Unlimited VIP to you for free. Thanks again.

Hi momof4spoiled1s,


sorry for that. Have you activated it? If not, we'll help you activate it free. Our support email (support@apowersoft.com) Thank you.

Hi cathari5,

Sorry for that. Have you checked your Spam folder? If you still cannot activate it, please send one email to our support email (support@apowersoft.com). We'll help you activate it immediately. Thank you.

Hi Paragon,

Thanks for your understanding. If you have some good suggestions, please send them to our support email (support@apowersoft.com). Once they're adopted, you'll get free license or maybe Lifetime license if the suggestion is pretty important and useful. Thank you~

Hi bobbo,

Thanks for your feedback. What's the resolution ratio of your monitor? Please adjust your DPI to 100%. If it cannot be solved, please send some screenshots to our support email (support@apowersoft.com). We'll help you fix it immediately.

Hi LEO,

Sorry for the inconvenience. It can be caused by the small resolution ratio of monitor. Please send some screenshots to our support email (support@apowersoft.com). We'll check the problem and reply to you ASAP. Thank you.

Apowersoft, Sorry I am not computor savvy. How do I send screen shots.

Hi LEO,

You can send one email to support@apowersoft.com, not here. Thank you

Felix Crevat, Thank you, good to know.
I'm so done with companies whose product lic dies soon after you get it.

Felix Crevat, I do not have the same exeperience as you.
I have these programs from Apowesoft's giveaways:

Video Converter Studio: 2017/09/12 activation still valid
Screen Recording Suite: 2010, valid
Streaming Audio Recorder: 2013, valid

(I always backup my activation data, so even if i reinstall Windows or change the computer, it's easy to restore it and keep the software activated, even with a fresh installation, except if there is a Machine ID in the activation data)

Hi Felix Crevat,

Thanks for your feedback. In fact, the license is valid for a year and it will expire after 1 year (maybe 12 months is not a few?). And if it expires in just a few months, you can contact with us, we'll help you activate it for 12 months. Thank you.

Hi Poisson Rouge,

Thanks for your interesting in our programs. If you have some good suggestions, please send them to us. Once they're adopted, you'll get free VIP account~Thank you.

I have some of those Apowersoft apps too - all with valid registration codes that no longer work after a few months.

Hi Injeun,

Thanks for your feedback. You can still use this program after one year. While, there'll be a small watermark on the output videos. Thank you.

Hi Poisson Rouge,

Thanks for your feedback. Yes, you can use all our programs of free versions for lifetime. Maybe there're some limitation such as watermark but you can still use them.

iwontell, That's right, and considering how many XP machines are out there, I'd say it was downright negligent of Microsoft to discontinue basic support for XP.

iwontell, hello grandad you still using a c64 too.

iwontell, have fun with all the security vulnerabilities.

Howie, Did you open AND follow the instructions in the README file? I did just that and had absolutely no issues whatsoever.

Howie, If you do have an account, then you can login at:
https://www.apowersoft.com/support/user
There are links for your account's program's

Hi Howie,

Sorry for that. Can you open it now? If not, please send one email to our support email (support@apowersoft.com). We'll help you fix it. Thank you.

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[ Amit Kumar ],

Thanks for suggesting a competitive alternative from your experience.

When you get a chance, could you also provide some particulars as to comparative features and benefits of each program in your experience.

Thanks.
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Peter Blaise,

If you're looking for alternatives, Peter, check out the software listing at videohelp[.]com -- their listing is divided up into several categories of video editors, & there's a bunch to choose from. At the high end, Avid has a free version, & DaVinci Resolve is *I think* Very Popular, though both take learning. HitFilm from FXhome may be the most approachable. I don't know if it's still available, but a day or two ago I read that Roxio had a special going on Amazon, & their NLE is pretty easy to master. VideoStudio Pro is also due to start sale pricing [~$25 & up] for their 2018 version. Nero Ultimate, which has a capable NLE, has been going on sale [~$30] for months now.

RE: Comparative features... ApowerEdit is pretty easy to use, but features are limited -- every feature you add also makes using the software more complicated, requiring more learning. The encoders included used to matter a Lot more -- now most all can encode high quality AVC, which is the most common output format. That said, some software does encoding primarily using CUDA or OpenCL, using the GPU rather than CPU, & while quality suffers a bit, they're the fastest if you've got the right GPU. Better encoders use the GPU only where it doesn't effect quality, though again having the right GPU matters -- Nero is one of the better apps in that respect. Most offer filters & scene transitions, but higher up the food chain things like blue &/or green screen gets better, & you'll find color correction. Stuff like more complex moving overlays, compositing, & tracking objects &/or paths also becomes available. Of course not everyone wants or needs those more advanced capabilities -- for many win10's Movie Maker replacement is good enough.

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[ mike ],

Thank you very much for your insight.

A challenge I see is for programmers to INTELLIGENTLY add features and benefits, such that a simple control for the end user implements sophisticated controls within a program.

For example, an INTELLIGENT video analyzer might scan a video, then make recommendations on how to en-smallen it, to coin a phrase -- via a simple control [ Make Smaller File Size / Screen Size ] -- for instance, INTELLIGENTLY offering fewer scans down and dots across, a less intense bit rate, enhanced compression, and so on.

Because now, when I see a video, and I have to analyze all that myself, sometimes outside of a video editing program, and then try to find ways within a video editing program to select the results I think I want, and hope for the best ... often having to try over and over, fighting the program's counterintuitive behavior of making a larger file anyway after I select a smaller screen.

Why offer me 1080p output from a 480p input WITHOUT COMMENTING that it's unable to actually generate new material to fill the 1080p presentation, and all 1080p players will up-scale anyway on the fly?

So, I appreciate your comment that "... every feature you add also makes using the software more complicated ..." BUT that's only for programmers who are not end users, who instead just dump competitive specifications into the program without INTELLIGENTLY incorporating those features and their benefits into simple but powerful INTELLIGENT controls.

APowerSoft take note.
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Amit Kumar,
AVS has some good programs, but the license model stinks big time - Read the small print
It is license to the current computer only
If you buy s new computer you CAN NOT transfer the license to the new computer
Your computer dies you CAN NOT transfer the license to the new computer - So you are out of luck and money spent on buying the software
This is the main reason that I did not buy their software

Apowersoft, has a better model tied to the user
If you want it installed on your desktop and laptop you can run either or - just one at a time
If you need to get a newer faster computer you don't lose your software

I know that a lot of messages on GOTD are talking about the length of the license
I prefer the lifetime license, but dont have an issue with the one year licenses
I stay away from the ones less then 6 months

The software companies are in business to make money. not just give out free software

I have bought about a dozen software programs that has been offered on GOTD
But I do like getting them on sale
There is another vendor that their software comes up on here and they run a 40% off, but also runs it with a 60% off, the last two time they have had products on GOTD, it has been at 40% off, so I am just running the one year license, when they run the lifetime license at 60% off i will more than likely buy them.

I have had free license stop working before they should have from some companies, and normally i will not buy their software

But getting back to Apowersoft, I like their software, I have bought some of their software
If you have not tried their Streaming Video Recorder for d/ling YouTube videos, I highly recommend it

Perhaps another hint can be useful for some. Most use cases are splitting YT (or other) videos into specific parts (ie (1) cutting out unwanted parts there, then you also need (2) "joining" functionality or just selecting key parts (then you only need the (1) cutting functionality of course).

You would want the "results" stay in the original quality (ie no "automatic conversion" / no "new rendering"); there are lots of paid programs which even split those functionalities (1) and (2) up into 2 different offerings, a "Cutter" (around 20, 25$) and a "Joiner" (ditto, and then a "package of both" for 35 or 40$); also, there is free software to do it, but often, it's from 2003 (no joke!) and cannot handle newer formats, e.g. H.264 = AVC = mpeg4 part 10 which should be your preferred "regular" (ie not 4k) format today whenever possible/available.

And even most of the paid Cutters / Joiners / basic "Editors" only "do it" by so-called "key frames"; you must know that the common video formats are compacted ("compressed") and only have "real" frames every 12th frame or so by the second (ie 2 "real" frames out of 24 in total per second), the intermediate frames (which in the non-compacted DVD format are all there in full) being "calculated" by your processor on run-time, from "what has been changed from the previous frame" info encoded instead. (Let's hope (all?) those compacted formats are smart enough to render a new "key frame" whenever it's a "totally new picture", instead of trying to do just an "intermediate frame info" in such cases.)

And that's why those basic editors cannot cut and join BUT on those "key frames" (you will find that either in their description or in their help file, or you simply discover it when using them), they simply lack the code to calculate those "intermediate frames" for editing purposes.

More elaborate video editors come with the necessary code to do this, of course, and those are the only ones you should buy in case, paid editors / "Cutters" / "Joiners" are simply not worth any of your money, not even when they only cost 20$ - and most of them are more expensive than that, with cutting AND joining combined: they simply live on the fact that most users don't know what I'm explaining here.

Thus, if you just need a basic cutter/joiner, cutting/joining on "key frames" (which indeed is "more than enough" in almost every such case I've ever encountered), processing even H.264 (I don't know about H.265 since I never use it) and with no quality loss, have a look at AVIDEMUX, which is free, and which I have used up to this day for this use case, with perfect results.

And for "more" than just cutting (out) / joining, SHOTCUT is absolutely brilliant; both free programs are in constant development.

EDIT: Sorry, with "paid editors / "Cutters" / "Joiners" are simply not worth any of your money" I meant such things which aren't even able to (well! since there will almost certainly be differences in quality then, depending on the original - and to be maintained - file formats) render those "intermediate frames". As for editors which do a lot more, my knowledge of them is partly lacking, so I cannot judge them vs. (free) Shotcut or then (also free but much more specialized) Avid Media Composer First.

And I missed the fact that you must distinguish between video container formats and file formats (just google "video container format vs container format"); some developers of basic, paid video editing software seem to play on the common lack of knowing of the utter need of making this distinction... (both "MKV" and "MP4" are NO valid info, naked)!

Just saying, Thank you , wow :)

Thank YOU! And English being a foreign language for me, please excuse my mistake above, I wanted to say, download Shotcut (and then, for the simple things, Avidemux), in order to avoid disappointment / disenchantment / frustration, not for "deception" (in french: "déception": that had been a "false friend", linguistically: sorry again!).

Hi elvy,

Thanks for your feedback. We're working on improving the process of activation. Thank you.

Hi adid,

Thanks for your feedback. It's pretty useful. We'll support MTS format in ApowerEdit 1.2.6 version. Thank you.