Flip Video Ultra | Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder, 60-Minutes (Black)

Great EASY video camera! | Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder, 60-Minutes (Black)

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highly recommended

Perfect for mother with baby on her hip

This was a birthday gift for a busy mother with a 3-year old and 8-month old. It's perfect for her. She has taken some beautiful clips of her kids. The quality of the clip is remarkable also.

Flip Video Ultra

quick easy it perfect on the run, but doesn't take the place or a real camcorder

Great EASY video camera!

Love this! It's small, it's easy to use, it's easy to download videos (and compress them for easy emailing). The quality is fine (as long as you are not a professional shooting for TV or something). The ONLY other thing I can say is be CAREFUL when setting the date. It prompts you to set the date when you first turn it on ... but if you enter it wrong (like I did) there seems to be no way to ever change it!!! I recommend this camera and amazon had the cheapest price by far!

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Simple and effective

I purchased the Flip Video Ultra mainly to take videos of our family gatherings both for keepsakes and to send them to our family members that live too far from us. The expectation was to be able to make videos that we could edit in OS X 10.5, upload to youtube, make DVDs or add to our two AppleTVs.

The good

This is as simple as it gets. It is held more or less the same way that you hold a cell phone while taking pictures/videos, and it is very light. It only has the bare minimum controls to get the job done.

Importing into OS X is easier if you just plug the camera and drag the movies into wherever you want them stored at.

Processing is simple: I just import the clips as iMovie events, and in minutes I can edit the whole thing with transitions, titles and music. Export to Youtube from iMovie is painless, while sending to AppleTV is a bit more involved (this is an iMovie concern, it has nothing to do with the Flip Video).

As a rough estimate, I can take a five-minute clip, edit it and export it to youtube in less than half an hour, and most of that time is wasted in conversions and uploads.

Picture quality: The raw videos look a little bit washed out, but it was easy to fix by changing the white balance in iMovie, so I am suspecting part of the problem was my indoor lighting. The youtube exports look so-so, but this is either an issue with iMovie's output or with whatever conversion youtube does. The iPhone versions of the youtube videos look fantastic, so I am sure this has something to do with youtube's internal conversions. The AppleTV versions look ok, but to me the iPhone versions look much better (even better than the youtube videos seen through AppleTV, instead of videos specifically exported for direct use in AppleTV).

Sound: Sound is great, I have no complaints about it.

The not-so-good

Because I am so damn smart, I did not read the very short instruction sheet and did not notice that big, obvious, lock button for the battery compartment. For the first couple of days I kept pulling the door out while trying to pull the camera out of the carrying pouch. Big obnoxious button, and to me it was completely invisible. Grrr.

The carry pouch sucks, it attracts dirt very easily.

The record button could use a more positive click action, sometimes you don't push it hard enough to trigger it.

The delete function doesn't tell you what to do on screen, you have to guess which button to hit to confirm what you want to do.

That's about it, except for those really tiny nags, it is perfect. This should be one hell of an affordable gift for anyone that has small children, and all you have to do is feed it batteries. I was worried about storage space, but so far I have not been able to fill it up in one session.

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