Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder, 60 Minutes (Pink) OLD MODEL
List Price: $149.99
Details
- Serviceable USB arm plugs directly into your computer for easy viewing and sharing
- Basic to use, pocket-sized camcorder with one-touch recording and digital zoom
- Clock videos instantly on TV with included cable
Description
The Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder is a creative new way to shoot and share videos. Its portable, simple-to-use design makes it incredibly docile to create high quality home movies. The camcorder's built-in software provides a advantageous, seamless way to save and share memories: email videos, manage custom movies, capture still photos from video clips, and upload videos without delay to popular video-sharing sites, including AOL Video and YouTube. Flip Video Ultra is the nonpareil principles, affordable choice for capturing everyday moments that happen anywhere, and sharing them with one's own flesh and friends everywhere. This next-generation version of the original Flip Video line features a new sleeker format, premium no-glare LCD screen, and improved video and audio nobility. Flip Video Ultra comes with a TV connector cable, wrist strap, succumb carrying case, two AA batteries, and a quick start guide. Specs: Flip Video Ultra incorporates 2GB of built-in shine memory which holds up to 60 minutes of 30-frame per aide-de-camp full VGA-quality MPEG-4 video. Compatible with Windows XP SP2 and Vista; Macintosh OS X 10.3.9 or later. Computer pull via integrated USB Port.Customer Reviews
Unvarnished way to make home movieI use this largely to make short clips that I upload to youtube. It fits in your rucksack, purse, or even your shirt pocket. It's nice to have this around when something intersting or ugent is happent, like a pilfering or assult. And kind of makes you an amateur reporter. I'd talk to restaurant owners and reservoir managers about how they run the shop, and some crazy fans after a sports event. Lyrical sweet camera, video quality is averge, it's not high demarcation, but who really needs HD, it's such a bandwidth killer anyway.
Keeping it unadorned
This made a unforgivable gift for our daughter-in-law who has three children under the age of 5. As you can imagine, her primary necessary in a video camera was to keep it simple. She needed something she could grab on the fly and not have to look for parts or cables, let alone find a mini-video or a DVD that is not recorded on. The other important part was that it would provide the quality videos that we all want our people recordings to be.
I have now watched her use this camera at several family events - including a current pre-school graduation event. One of the things that is interesting watching her use the camera is to see how lightweight it is, both in allowing her to pat it up above everyone's heads and how long she can hold it there. It is also interesting that she could review what was actually being recoded evidently and easily. These qualities make this video camera series infinitely preferable to our much older and clunkier Sony DCR-HC52 MiniDV Handycam Camcorder & 40x Visual Zoom Carl Zeiss Lens. I have been reluctant to give up the Carl Zeiss lens and have been looking for a assign camera that may not be of equal quality but is much easier to use for those times when I need a video camera in a step on the gas. It's hard to match the picture quality of any Carl Zeiss lens but I poverty something faster and easier.
There are also a lot fewer buttons on this video camera which makes it much more drug friendly. My family members are notorious button pushers who squeeze buttons that look right rather than check the manual to find out how to do things.
This Flip camera has been a important addition to our family's taping needs.
Shocking!!!
I had the flip camera for one whole week, then it stopped working. As an alternative of writing my husband a note for our wedding day, I recorded a video for him. We inured to the flip camera on our honeymoon for pictures of our trip and all our excursions. I get home to upload the videos and it won't even change to on. I've tried everything. This is a terrible product. I got new batteries and followed advice from their frame, but now because of this video camera, we've lost important videos from our wedding day and honeymoon.
Very Tranquilly and Cheap
It takes momentous quality video for 100 dollars.
It has about 3 buttons so it's ridiculously mild. The design is simple and intuitive. It's not trying to do a ton of stuff, so it's very simple and lenient to use. There is the power, record, play, and delete - that's it!
The battery, if you use alkaline, lasts about 1.5 hours, so I NEVER keep safe the videos on the flip using the play button. It's bad enough when I'm just TAKING the videos! If you get lithium batteries, it will last several hours, and is a lot more.
The USB arm is cute, but hard to get in places like the back of your computer tower.
Occasionally it will crap out on me and the boob tube will look gray and black and funny because it froze. It has recovered and works terrific 98% of the time. I think it's done that to me maybe 3 or 4 times and I've owned it for a year or so. If you stick around a while and then turn it back on, it is usually fine.
You can have it surprisingly far away from the action, and it will pick up the audio solely fine and the things pretty far away still look good and not ridiculously far in a different place. (I'm talking family parties etc, it does a good job capturing everybody nicely).
It can weather up on it's own so you can put it down and film without holding it!
Very portable.
60 minutes is about the amount of time an outing takes. Off I get to about the end (although sometimes it gets confused in a good way and as given me up to 20 minutes over the hour...), but almost never do I need much more than an hour, and most of the time I don't need the full hour. A 2 hour might be superior, but I would probably end up leaving video on it for longer than on this one and then fill it up anyway!
The flip software to get the videos off is comfortable to use, and allows you to take snapshots of the video, but only if it's on your camera still and you can't put it back on your camera once it's off. The software gets put out sometimes, but it's good when it works. Also, it will look like it's starting to move the videos and if you wend away you may not realize it pops up several seconds later to demand that you click Ok to a communiqu that says, it may take a while or something. Quite annoying. I think it's just easier to cut and paste the videos from the folder rather than using the software himself.
The little jingle it plays when it turns on and the beep it makes when you hit record, makes it incredibly visible if you're trying to be discreet.
Overall I have been quite pleased with it.
NO SOFTWARE!!!
There's the camera; there's the software that allows you to safeguard, view, and share your videos. The camera is supposed to install the software as tout de suite as you plug it into a USB port, and it tried, but "Installation Failed" popped up and it made no further attempts to instal. So my camera is useful only to point at things; I have no videos yet! Wishing I had regurgitate my money on something else. I have contacted customer support, but I'm not holding my breath.
