Flip Mino Camcorder

Last year I bought a flip camcorder. I really like the camcorder itself but the software was horrible. I don't know if it was because it is meant for PCs but it would crash all the time. I ended up losing a lot of my videos and I returned the camcorder. Recently I read in MacLife magazine a good review of the new Flip mino. Is this one going to be more compatible with my Mac and possibly iMovie?

Hey tombo,
There really isn't much of a difference between these two camcorders. The only real difference I could find is that the Flip Video Mino has night recording capability, while the ultra does not. If you intend on showing your videos on a HD TV I would suggest looking at the Flip Video MinoHD.
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Can't import Flip Mino HD video to iMovie 08, please help?

when i connect my flip mino to the USB port, then open up iMovie, the video clips appear and ask me to import. I click on import all, then click to save the clips to my connected external Hard drive. I continue to get an error import message. I've tried with only one clip at a time, and same thing.
When I called apple, the only way we got it to work was to go into the flip camcorder icon, then drag all the clips over to my external hard drive, then do a "file" "import" and get them that way.
Does anyone know of a way around this? Not that it's a big deal, but since it recognizes the camera as soon as i plug it in, it would be nice to just click "import all" and be done with it.
Thanks!

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Flip mino or flip ultra HD to use in imovie and final cut express

i am contemplating either flip mino HD, Flip ultra HD or creative vado HD. Which one has a good video quality and design style? Is it necessary for 2 hrs movie or actually i like the flip mino coz its slimmer but only takes 1 hr video. By the way, What kind of format the flip camcorder will save as coz someone says its .avi but some says Mp4 format? If in Mp4 format, is the quality still good? most of the time i will shoot in ultra hi definition setting. I will use imovie and final cut for edit and does the Flip compatible to imovie and Final cut? How about creative vado? any recommendation?
But most likely i will get the flip.

The Flip cameras are easy to use and pocketable.
Unfortunately it is their very simplicity that drastically limits what they can do.
They are OK for someone who wants to take daft pictures of their friends and post them on YouTube but for serious film-making they are non-starters.
They record low quality highly compressed video onto an internal memory.When you have shot your 60 minutes of video you can’t use the camera any more until you get it to a computer and download it.
The lens is a small aperture fixed focus with no zoom.
Actually to be correct there is a 2x digital zoom, but as we all know, digital zooms are a total waste of time and only reduce the quality still further. You can get the same effect by enlarging your picture 2x in the computer - not to be recommended.
So what at first sight, to the uninitiated looks like a very cheap camera, quickly turns out to be a very expensive toy.
Much better to buy a proper camera (which won't cost all that much more) like Skalicki suggests.

Anyone here using FCE to edit Flip Mino HD .avi converted files- Rendering

This question may have been answered in bits and pieces in other posts but I'm hoping some smart person here can give me the settings I need to avoid rendering .avi HD-to-quicktime clips in Final Cut Express 2.0.1.
I'm shooting HD video with a Flip Mino HD camera which produces .avi files. I am aware FCE doesn't work with .avi files. The native codec of these .avi video files is H.264 ACC with a frame size of 1280 x 720. The quality is excellent but I am aware that H.264 is not an editing codec.
I'm using Mpeg Streamclip to convert those .avi video files into Quicktime files. With the MPEG Streamclip program there are MANY choices for compression including Apple DV/DVCPRO NTSC, Apple Intermediate Codec and even the H.264 codec native to the Flip Mino HD. I've tried all of them with 24 frames and also 29.97 frames per second.
And there are several frame size choices as well including the native 1280 x 720. But to avoid distortion I'm keeping with 1280 x 720 unscaled.
The problem is, no matter what settings I seem to chose, when I import those converted clips into Final Cut Express, they need to be rendered before they can be played back or edited. I'm not talking about transitions like dissolves or titles, just straight clips. This problem does not happen in iMovie only FCE. But I hate editing in iMovie.
I have tried to match the setting in the sequence as best I can in FCE, including RT unlimited in playback.
Nothing has worked. Each time I import a converted clip into FCE v.2.0.1 I am forced to render the video.
I've read the MPEG Streamclip tutorial and I've seen the demos on Youtube but nothing is working. These MPEG options and conversions may work with Final Cut Pro but they are not working for me with Final Cut Express 2.0.1 on an intel iMac running 10.4.11.
My goal is to maintain the format frame size and quality, that I get from the Flip Mino HD, all the way into the final export from FCE 2.0.1.
Is there anything you can suggest? Am I missing some small setting? Do I need another third party program or do I need to upgrade to the latest FCE?
Thanks

Dear Tom,
With your help I made it work.
I bought Final Cut Express 4 and installed it in my 13 inch Macbook Pro.
I imported the H.264 HD Mpeg 4 clips, shot with my Flip Mino HD camera, into my MBpro.
I used MPEG Streamclip to convert these Flip video files into Quicktime files using the following settings:
Apple Intermediate Codec at 100% quality, 48 kHz, frame rate 29.97. Lower Field, Interlaced Scaling checked. 1280x720 HDTV 720p.
I then opened FCE4 with a sequence setting of DV NTSC 48kHz Anamorphic.
I imported the MPEG converted to QT Clips into FCE4
FCE4 gave me a warning that my clips did not perfectly match my sequence setting and asked me if I wanted to correct that. I said "yes". (I'm assuming it corrected the sequence settings and not the clips)
I was then able to drag those clips into the timeline WITHOUT having to render first!!!!
I was able to edit those clips, add dissolves, fade outs, page wipes and a text title etc.
I then exported the timeline sequence as a QT movie and the final outcome was very good. Keeping the original HD wide screen 16:9 format from the Flip camera.
I then imported that exported QT video from FCE4 into iMovie 8. Using iMovie 8 I easily uploaded that video on to the share function for Youtube. The final edited on Youtube held the HD quality of 720p and format 16:9 that I originally got from the Flip Mino HD camera.
It was a lot of steps and a lot of trial and error but the results were what I wanted.
Thanks for your help.
Steve

Macbook Pro doesn't recognize Flip Mino camera in USB port after Yosemite upgrade

Since I upgraded to Yosemite, my Macbook Pro doesn't recognize my Flip Mino camera in the USB port.

I don't use FLIP, but if you get no other help here,
consider the following ideas.
If neither restarting your Mac
nor reinstalling OS X fixes your
problem, you might find some
help if you search or post in the
CISCO forum where Flip users post.
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Flip Video Camcorder

The Flip Video Camcorder. Simple and cheap for my kids. Can it be used with Mac? Will it open in iMovie?

My MAC Updater downloaded the new QT 7.4.5 on 5 Apr 2008. I have been making movies in iMovie, and then posting them to YouTube. In the beginning I uploaded the movies as MOV files but soon discovered AVI files (larger file and longer time to upload) had more clarity when viewed on YouTube. Once the new QT 7.4.5 downloaded all my AVI files had picture, but no sound! I downloaded the Perian component as posted in QT discussions. The sound returned to the AVI files. However, when I Exported an AVI movie from iMovie the picture quality was worse than the MOV movie. There is something wrong with the new QT 7.4.5 when working with AVI, my AVI movies look terrible. These AVI files were all downloaded from my Ultra Flip Video camera with Flip’s codec 3vix. Flip is aware of this problem and acknowledged it last Friday. Flip says Apple is aware of the problem.
My MAC PowerPc G4 has performed well in the past two months when working with the Flip Video camera. So, at Flip Video’s suggestion I upgraded the operating system to OS 10.5 from OS 10.4.11. Flip Video says their camera works with OS 10.5. Once OS 10.5 was uploaded I soon discovered that iMovie 08 would not operate on my PowerPc G4, 1.86 MHz. The speed requirement for iMovie 08 is 1.9 GHz.
At this point of “spinning my wheels for nearly a month” with this Flip Video camera, I decided to purchase a new iMac. On May 2, 2008, I walked out of the Apple Store in Walnut Creek with the new iMac 20-inch: 2.66GHz. Now the Flip video camera should work and all my video problems solved. However, this was not to be.
When I attempted to Import Flip Video AVI and MOV files into iMovie 08 the files were “grayed out” and would not Import. None of my previous Flip Video files would Import. I tried making new Flip Video movies, they also would not Import into iMovie 08.
At another Apple Store, the tech suggested I download the previous version of iMovie HD. I did this and with hours of working through the different Export options I was able to create movies to post again on youTube. However, the picture quality of the newer iMovies has never approached the quality of my last post before QT 7.4.5 downloaded. Remember my problems started with QT 7.4.5. Well, my new iMac came with QT 7.4.1, I have not Uploaded QT 7.4.5 and won’t until Flip Video fixes this problem.
Examples of my Flip Video movies can be viewed on youTube at: sffoggydays. The last video with excellent picture quality was posted 6 Apr 2008 titled “A Day at the San Francisco Zoo, Chapter Nine, L-Taravel Ride to BART.” This video was made in iMovie and Exported before QT 7.4.5 downloaded. All the youTube Flip Videos made after 6 Apr 2008 have poor picture quality.
It is time for Flip Video camera to stop “passing the buck” to Apple. When manufactures of operating system such as Apple and Microsoft create newer and upgraded systems, it is the responsibility of the manufactures of applications to redo the programs for operating on the new systems. Here is where Flip Video is not accepting this responsibility to Mac users of their camera. The Flip Video application/codex/drivers need to be updated in order to fix the following problems:
- No sound on AVI files in QT 7.4.5
- No Import of AVI and MOV files in iMovie 08
- Poor picture quality for youTube in Export of iMovie HD
I like my Flip Video camera, want to continue making movies for youTube, and recommending the camera to others. The Flip Video camera people need to fix these problems for Mac users.

Flip Mino HD imported movies not working right in iMovie 08

I just bought a Flip Mino HD and imported some videos using the built in software from Flip. I then imported those videos into iMovie 08 which worked just fine the first time, but the second time the movies are all messed up. In the library, the clips are mostly gray, except for a few seconds here and there, and the sound on the latest movies is completely messed up - it just sounds like static. I upgraded to the latest version of Quicktime hoping that might fix it, but it didn't. Not sure what the problem is... anyone having similar issues or know of a fix?

OK, but why does iMovie HD accept them? There is a program called DIVX that I have been told will deal with conversion, but I neither know how to use it nor if it will even work.
iMovie HD automatically converts incompatible files to compatible files during import if it can. E.g., if you have the correct QT component installed (such as DivX or Perian, etc), then it normally converts the clip to DV with compatible audio. On the other hand, iMovie '08 does not perform any conversions during file imports as it assumes that whatever compression format you are trying to import is the compression format in which you want to do your editing. If that compression format is not "edit" compatible, then the file is ignored by iMovie '08. Your current option is to either manually convert your files to a compatible format and import them to iMovie '08or use iMovie HD.

Can I transfer Flip Mino Video to my iPod Touch?

The video files created in my Flip Mino are .AVI files, but they won't seem to upload into iTunes for my iPod Touch. Does anyone know if this is possible, and how to do it??
Thanks in advance!

The video files created in my Flip Mino are .AVI files, but they won't seem to upload into iTunes for my iPod Touch. Does anyone know if this is possible, and how to do it?
Use a tool such as MPEG Streamclip or QuickTime Pro to convert them to MPEG-4 or QuickTime and then import those into iTunes. Some AVIs can't be used in Mac OS X.
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IMovie 09 doesn't import my Flip Mino HD video in native resolution

My Flip Mino HD records video at 1280x720 resolution. I can confirm this by saving a clip directly to my Mac and looking at its settings in Quicktime. However, when I import into iMovie 09 and try to export the clip, the resolution is only 960x540. What's going on Apple? I even went into Preferences and selected Video and told Import 1080i video to import in full resolution. But no go. Am I missing a setting here or does iMovie have a bug in it?

iMovie does import your video in it's native format. It does not alter it. You have to use QuickTime export to achieve any size over 960x540. As long as your video is progressive 720p (which I believe your Flip is) there should be no issues (there is an issue with Interlaced source). Use Share--> Export using Quicktime and use a high quality codec like h.264 or AIC and set your size to 720.
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been getting conflicting reports...will fce4 ingest flip mino hd footage...aic convert?
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Not directly. Media from these things has to be converted before being brought into FCE. Where did you hear otherwise?

Flip Mino HD, problems, going crazy, desesperate

Hi everyone,
I use my flip mino HD to film my things and I used to import directly the .mp4 files in Adobe Premiere Element 7 and everything worked perfectly fine. You can see the results here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAL2qGOXwfE .
I made a few of them. http://www.youtube.com/user/coeurdepierreluc
But recently, It looks like Adobe Premiere Element 7 doesn't like my .mp4 anymore. I don't know why, it comes from nowhere. When I edit a movie (that is less in time than many of my other), it doesn't want to export them. I go on share-> personnal computer and I've tried almost every setting there. Everytime, it freezes with 5 seconds left.
When it gets to 5 seconds left, dang. Freeze time! It is like a curse.
But... what the... it used to work!
So I searched on the internet and found out that there Adobe Premiere Elements to check everything: Yes, there is enough space on my drive. Yes, the files are on the same hard drive that I try to export (the same folder). Yes I have enough RAM, I did it six time. Yes, I have updated everything I could.
So, the last thing I tried is to convert into .avi as they say here http://forums.adobe.com/thread/437535?tstart=0 .
But, when I drag a movie into the timeline, I understand that the little bar above the timeline must be green, but it is still red. And when I try to edit those .avi, it runs slower than with the .mp4, the voice doesn't follow the image and the pixel are huge. Maybe I took the wrong settings for them. What "Project Setting" should I use if I convert the file into .avi file as it says on the url above?
Thank you!
(Or if you can tell me how to make it work again with the .mp4 as I use to.)

Coeurde PL
Please check my response to your issue that you post at another forum that I frequent.
From the screenshots that you posted there, it would appear that you used Prism to convert your flip video using the Xvid MPEG-4 codec, not the DV Codec.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
ATR
(Steve Grisetti, please see my recent thread in this forum regarding "where as the aspect ratio settings?" in Prism.
ATR

Flip Mino Video No longer shows up in iPhoto 09

Please help, my flip mino is showing up on the desktop as an external hard drive and no longer opening up in iphoto 09 (version 8.1.2) for easy quick imports. Could this be something to do with 10.6.4 upgrade or does anyone have any solutions to get it to show up again- ie: any drivers to download or any tips. Any help would be appreciated.

A few tests you can try to narrow down if it is the OS, the Flip itself, or something in your user profile.
First thing to try is simply open up iMovie and see if iMovie can access the Flip (my preferred method of downloading from my Flip is via iMovie, so I know it normally works, at least under Leopard 10.5.x). If that works then there is probably something in iPhoto having an issue.
If iMovie doesn't work, then next thing to try is creating another user account (you can delete it later), open iPhoto in that account (it will be a new blank library) then plug in the flip and see if iPhoto sees it in the new account. If so, then you may have an issue with your main account.
I am not sure what the fix would be for some of the above, but the above will at least help you narrow down who is the culprit.
Patrick

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Can anyone explain why video that's shared by email via the camera's Flipshare to iPhone cant be played back on the iphone ?? Can this issue be overcome...if so, how ?

I've read some information about this Flipshare and in the FAQ on their website, they discuss the conversion of video to be used on iPhone. This is the FAQ page http://www6.nohold.net/CiscoFlip/ukp.aspx?vw=1&docid=a17966a625d9480c806d615f40f d45edConverting_videos_into_iPod_or_iPhone_compatibleformats.xml&pid=2&respid=0&snid=2&dispid=0&cpage=search
I also tried to read about this share via email. I'm not sure that even when you email that it is converting the file. If you are emialing the file, even when in H.264 format that is is changing the extension. I think it is a .mov instead of a MPeG4. From what I could read about the app, you are supposed to post video to the Flip website and the app recognizes it is there and you can view it from the phone. Again, I'm not sure it supports emailing the video. You may need to ask this question of the app developer.

Flip Mino-Garage Band-iMovie Syncing Issues

I'm recording video on a flip video while simultaneously recording audio with a lapel mic through garage band. I am then uploading the video to iMovie and attempting to match up the audio from garageband to the video. Somewhere along the way they are getting way out of sync. How do I fix this?

While it seems to download the videos and create the project, the videos are not viewable in iMovie?
There should be no doubt as to whether they were imported to the named_Event folder. Simply open it and see if the file(s) is/are there. If there and they don't show up in the iMovie '08 Event window, this I would suspect that either the thumbnail or cache data is bad. Since the normal work flow appears to be import, thumbnail, build cache movie, I would jump to the cache movie, open it and check to see if the "missing" content is included here. If not, I would likely close the application, trash both the thumbnail and cache folders, and then reopen the application to see if re-thumbnailing and re-caching the source files remedies. If it does well and good. It doesn't then I would likely do a test conversion if the file or files the "don't take" properly and see if this changes the results. As I do not own such a device, these are only logical "gueses" as to things I minght try in an effort to isolate the base problem area.

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Each time I connect to my UltraHD camcorder, I get the iPhoto import screen.
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I can import them and play them just fine. But, I always have to import them in the 'blind'.
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