Flip Mino Camcorder, 60 Minutes (Purple Flourish)
Flip Mino Camcorder, 60 Minutes (Purple Flourish)
Flip Mino: The Power of Self Expression
Flip Mino provides you the power of self-expression, enabling you to shoot and share your stories with the world. Now, with a wide assortment of new designs available, you can make a statement with your Mino before you even press record. This “Purple Flourish” camcorder features an evocative, floral-inspired design in vibrant purple and lavender.
Each Purple Flourish Mino is individually customized by Flip Video’s partner, CafePress.
Mino Overview:
- Super-slim Mino is the sleekest camcorder you can get
- Super-simple user interface features one-touch recording and digital zoom
- Features the distinctive “Purple Flourish” design, custom-printed directly on the camcorder
- Holds 60 minutes of full-VGA-quality video on 2GB of built-in memory; no tapes or additional memory cards required
- Convenient flip-out USB arm plugs directly into your computer to launch built-in FlipShare software
- Built-in FlipShareTM software lets you easily email videos, edit individual clips, make custom movies, capture still photos from video, and even upload video to sharing sites like YouTube and MySpace
- FlipShare’s advanced compression technology allows for quick and easy sharing of high-quality video in compact-sized files (via email or publishing online)
- Internal Li-ion battery recharges through built-in USB arm while you’re plugged into your computer
- Produces incredible, full-VGA-quality videos that look crisp and clear when played back on a TV (TV connector cable included)
- Features a flat-back panel with touch-sensitive backlit buttons
- Instant playback, pause, fast forward, rewind, zoom, and delete functions
Flip Mino Camcorder, 60 Minutes (Purple Flourish) Review
I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere and I thought it was important for Mac users to be filled in on the following….
1. The software that comes with the Flip Video Mino does NOT allow you to stitch multiple clips together to make one movie. Only Windows users can do this.
2. I was able to get the Flip Video Mino AVI videos to play in iMovie ‘08, but not export. When you export the video you get a blank screen with only audio. I had better luck exporting the video from Final Cut Pro.
3. In case you are interested, the codec that Flip Video Mino uses is the 3ivx codec.
There are workarounds for the above issues, but it would have been nice if there was a way to combine clips into one movie right out of the box. Hopefully this will be possible in the future with a software update.
Other then those concerns, its a great product so far and the video quality from the raw AVI file is really impressive.
I found a site called motionbox that will let you upload the raw AVI files that the Flip Video Mino creates and once uploaded you can do some basic editing and combine multiple movies into one. Doing it this way gives you a much higher quality video then what you get on sites like YouTube.
