Linux Journal: Flip Camera Review

This was a fun review, the camera really is awesome. :)

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9 comments

kimby:
 1 

Thanks Shawn…I am looking at getting one of the Flips, and was wondering about compatibility with Mac.
It is exactly what i am looking for (hate, hate, hate our video camera now)

August 14th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Thread killer Brad:
 2 

Will the flip also take still photo’s?

August 14th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Shawn Powers:
 3 

Unfortunately, it won’t do still photos. The built in software will “take” stills from video, but I can only imagine the outcome is horrible at best. :)

kimby: I really kinda fell in love with it. If you install Perian in OSX, you can directly import the video files into iMovie as well. Well, at least iMovie ‘06, I didn’t try ‘08. (http://www.perian.org - free addon for quicktime that will allow it to play pretty much everything)

August 14th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Jeri:
 4 

So what have you seen/found for the next step up? Something that would do better stills, has optical zoom, better px resolution and a few more features? We have a much older mini-VHS but it has none of the ports to output to digital so it can’t be edited with today’s tech - and my boys are at precisely the age where they want to play with this stuff.

August 14th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Random Michelle K:
 5 

I played with my Flip yesterday, and it really is easy.

The stills aren’t as bad as you’d think. They’re small, but fairly clear.

If I have time tonight I was going to write about the flip.

Assuming I don’t fall asleep on the sofa. ;)

August 14th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
John the Scientist:
 6 

You live in the really flat part of Michigan, I see.

August 15th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Dj.r4iDeN:
 7 

150$

its cheep but i dont like the resolution

i have other question

did you edit and add subtitle through kino ?

August 18th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Randy Noseworthy:
 8 

My sub-Uban golf video that’s on the above blog was done all with my Flip camera, but I crunched it together on-line on PhotoBucket. - And will have to give Kino a shot, I started to play with Kino the other night, and well, time ran short and I never got back to editing the thing. - What I’d like to be able to do, is take the .avi files an put them into DVD format, for my less then a geek mom to play on her DVD player, located 4 time zones away…

August 19th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Randy Noseworthy:
 9 

nutz, hit enter prior to spell check… oh well. I’m a boob.

August 19th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

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