Embroidery Digitizing Program Suggestions

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As you may or may not know I have an embroidery machine now.  You can see some of its work in action on Trixie's alicorn amulet.  I've been using Stitchera to digitize.  It's the only program I'm familiar with and I'm comfortable with it, but it has some major flaws.  After December 31st I'll also have to pay $96 a year to keep using it or a whopping $1000 to buy the program if I upgrade from Universal to Liberty.  Now if the program didn't have major flaws, I wouldn't mind that and it is quite possible that Liberty gets rid of some of the flaws that Universal has, but I'm not paying $1000 to find out.  The one MAJOR issue I have with Stitchera is that it does not save manual edits when you flip a file.  So, say, you were digitizing an eye file and had to move a few stitches manually to get them placed right.  If you flip the eye those edits go away and you have to redo them entirely!  How are you supposed to do that perfectly?  You can't.  So saving manual edits on a flip is an absolute necessity.

So, tell me about your embroidery software.  Ideally I'm looking for something under $500 (even less is better!) but if your software is the most amazing thing in existence and costs more than that, tell me about it too.  Also, if anyone has upgraded Stitchera from Universal to Liberty, I'd love to hear about how Liberty is working for you.

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I don't know what I'm going to do when the trial runs out, I've finally gotten used to stitchera and just discovered some new features, it sucks they're taking that away.  It's not even a perfect program that I'd want to pay full price for, loads so slow on my computer, lags, and oftentimes crashes completely.  I'm not sure it's worth the pricetag.  But I really like it's auto function, saves me a lot of time with fiddly designs, and it gives good auto underlays and things so I don't have to mess with it too much.  Suppose I'll have to just suck it up and relearn a new program though.