how to pre-translate with machine translations | might've found the issue - i have no active machine translation plugins

Forum: MemoQ support
Topic: how to pre-translate with machine translations
Poster: jmutka
Post title: might've found the issue - i have no active machine translation plugins

might've found the issue.

the OP in this thread is dealing with what i'm dealing:
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so, i have no active machine translation plugins nothing is ticked/configured on that list. and i don't know which one (if any) is free / good.

crosslang gateway MT
googleMT
etc.

i have activated and use the MyMemory plugin that i thought would do this, but that's in "TM plugins," not at the "Machine Translation" -selection. in studio, it pulls the machine translations and prepopulates with them - either gTranslate, or a human one, if such exist in their database. in memoQ, no such luck.

so what IS the difference between "TM plugins" and "Machine Translation?"

which one of the API vendors provides a free / good Machine Translation?

cheers.

[Edited at 2017-05-20 03:59 GMT]

[Edited at 2017-05-20 04:00 GMT]