OT - Flip Video

I just discovered this very cool device (I know, I'm late). Seems like the way to go for sharing videos online. Anyone here have one?

Glenn

My niece has one - loves it; great HD movies and pics, but everything is saved to internal memory for transfer by USB, so unless you have access to storage, filming time can be limited.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7DWPsr2sg

Mikey Maestro recorded this on a flip video...

I bought one on the recommendation of Mikey. It's a nice piece of equipment. I bought the Ultra Model with 60 minutes record time. Found it on sale at Wal Mart for $119. plus tax. I believe Zuki just bought the HD model, that's priced at about $179.

WOW ... more and more toys, TOYS, TOYS ... ...
t.
PS speaking of toys, our kids gave me (I said I would never buy one for myself ) a Garmin nuvi 200W for my birthday last month, and I have to say I am looking forward to using it on a road trip Lydia and I will be taking in the near future ...
t.

I endorse it with 2 thumbs up!!! It gets Mikey Maestro's seal of approval!

If anyone is on the fence and needs to be pushed over or have questions about the software call me anytime. My phone is always on for synthzoners.

508-558-3500

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God Bless,
Mikey

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Does anyone know of a decent inexpensive camcorder like the Flip with direct audio ins?

I must confess, for a musician, the audio side of things ought to be one of the primary considerations. HD is all well and good, but only the video is HD. The audio is often still little better than a cassette. It's not that the format can't record it, it's just that most of these things have no way of recording audio than the horrible built-in mikes and crappy audio compression they put on it...

Surely we want to SOUND at least as good as we look (or a LOT better, in my case!)

Mikey and others... how is the picture quality on a large screen TV?

FlipHD... 720p. Pretty damn good, IMO.

I have a 50 inch lcd and was pleasantly surprised. It even comes with the special cable in the box. Looks like a 1/8" to a Y rca/ video



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God Bless,
Mikey

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Yes, just purchased the Ultra HD and recorded myself live for the first 30 minutes tonight. The Flip did a great job, although.....

I hated my delivery, my singing and playing

I'll post on You Tube as soon as I get comfortable with myself

What a wonderful way to be humbled and correct things too.

Oh, c'mon, zuki ... too often we are our own worst critic ...
t.

Yeah... whatever happened to accepting your audience's opinion of yourself?

Hey guys,

I just bought my mom a flip video ultra for mothers day from staples. The web site lists them for 129.99 however, when I got to the cashier it rang up at 89.99. What a score!!!

If anyone is looking for one I suggest getting to a staples and get one. If it's advertised for a higher price tell them in Fall River, MA it rang up at 89.99

I love mine

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God Bless,
Mikey

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www.myspace.com/kidconcert
www.balloonanimal.com
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www.youtube.com/kidconcert

Just found what appears to be a super good deal on this item... not the HD model, but for 49.99 and free shiping.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ref=pe_59010_12229210_pe_t2/B000V1PXL4

Glenn have you recorded yourself playing with it?

Yo, give me some time... just ordered it 10 minutes ago!

Interesting price structure: 13 new from $49.99 9 used from $43.99 1 refurbished from $59.47

Glenn...I got the Ultra HD 60 minute one and love it.

It uses AVI format and I have found the files are too big to email. Anyone have a solution such as a conversion program or other way to reduce to a mailable size?

Eddie

Eddie can you post some your tube videos of your gigs?

Donny...
I just got the Flip while on a trip to NC two weeks ago. I have done some test videos with clips of buddies performing...but haven't found a way to attach them to mail or post them due to file size.

I'll see if I can, somehow, send you something in email using, what they call, FlipShare, where the video is stored on a server somewhere.

I'm still learning and can hear my hair turning gray.
Eddie

Eddie but I thought that the flip video was supposed to convert easily to play on You Tube Formast with no problems like Mikey did isn't that why it's so popular?

Yes... Flipshare has a button to upload to a YouTube account. I did that for one of my buddies, but he wanted to save the file, which you can do if you have the right software to download a youtube file. My goal at the moment is to find a way to send a 'FILE' through email...not just a direct link to a 3rd party site.

BTW... you should be getting some email from me with a Flip soon....it is uploading now.
Eddie

Ok Eddie I'll check my mail asap

thanx

Thanx for the video great stuff!

Rather than squeeze the bejeezus out of the video, and compromise it visually, why not use Yousendit and just email the link...

Kodal has a similar Zi6 HD camcorder selling around $119. Looks good to me and uses SD cards for add'l storage. http://blog.laptopmag.com/hands-on-with-kodaks-zi6-pocket-hd-camcorder

An excellent suggestion Diki, as long as the file is under 100MB or you don't mind paying the premium.

I had a 127MB file and tried storing it on http://www.transferbigfiles.com/
but couldn't get the upload to work.

A companion plug-in worked, but the upload took FOREVER and maxed out my CPU resources.

I tried a smaller file on YouTube...and that worked ok..but upload was also slow.

Still working on it.

Eddie