Freemake video editing software

Do you ever feel caught in the middle of video format wars? I often need to edit video for personal or professional reasons. I'll spare you a lot of the technical issues, partly because I don't fully understand them, but for years I have suffered from having video in, say, mp4 format, and wanting to display it using, say, Microsoft Powerpoint. I needed to convert from one video format to another. I spent a lot of time shuttling between Quicktime software and VLC Media Player. RealPlayer proved useful, but came with a lot of overhead - additional software that I didn't want nor fully trust. Along comes Freemake, a free software program that provides a very user-friendly interface for editing and converting video.