Learn more. Pure Digital's Flip turned the camcorder world upside-down, proving that a cheap, easy-to-use video camera could sell by the truckloads. Three years later, virtually every smartphone on the planet now features a tiny video camera. So what's Pure Digital's next trick? How about making it easier to watch and share all those videos? FlipShare TV, a wireless dock that streams video and pictures to your TV, is the company's first non-camera product.
And it feels like it. The chintzy plastic aesthetics are definitely not a selling point. Neither is the interface, which looks about as stimulating and vivid as a cloudy afternoon.
But much like the original Flip, the ease of use is hard to ignore. If you want to backup the videos, they recommend exporting the videos to another drive or backing them up al on a DVD using the FlipShare export feature.
The problem with this option is the FlipShare export process is very manual. I have 12 folders and I would have to backup all videos in each folder manually or take all the videos and dump them into one folder for backup.
Also, if you export it compresses the file from the RAW file format. If you want to move your Flip videos from one computer to another so that the FlipShare program recognizes all your videos, the safest way to do that is to actually load the videos back onto your Flip and connect your Flip to the new computer where it will install the new FlipShare program and then recognize the videos on the Flip.
Move the files over, delete, and then go back to the old computer and do it again for more videos. For someone used to editing in Final Cut Pro, iMovie and QuickTime, the protections enforced by FlipShare to protect the novice user, can be confusing.
Great tip David. I also like to have more control over my Flip video content. I use a desktop shortcut to an internal drive where I archive my Flip clips by category for future use.
While my focus is on the Flip camera, I do offer many tips, techanies, and effective strategies for using any video camera to shoot better video.
You can get the course right now at…. Absolutely ridiculous. Just craptastic. I want to throw this camera right now. I've written a posting about how to reset the camera. Hope it helps. After tinkering around, I've found the solution. You must delete the DCIM folder not just the videos inside the folder and presto… your Flip will return to full capacity. That's not the only way to reset. It turns out it is great for viewing videos on your computer too.
You can upload right to YouTube if you want as well or… export to a file. When it exports, it saves as a WMA file and saves within a minute. Jess, I tried uploading my videos to my Picasa web albums and it said it was in the wrong format. Having updated my flip software to flipshare I have found that I have lost the move mix function. I want my old software back but does anyone know how I can restore it? I have videos of my newborn that I moved from my PC to my iMac to find it impossible to move within the Flip software.
How can you not get that right? Helpful post. In my own adventure with getting my Flip productions started, immediately after downloading a couple of videos to the old Flip app, I was cued to upgrade to FlipShare.
So, being a Picasa fan, I moved the first vids into my Picasa pics archive folder and it seems that managing them there should be a snap. My next tasks were to try editing and uploading to Facebook. FlipShare made it easy to export a reasonably sized and formatted copy for doing so.
Taking Windows Movie Maker for my first spin was heartening too. Being a developer hack, I can appreciate new apps not getting backwards compatibility perfect. To their credit, the compatibility seems to be readily available by using the other great apps that are freely available. There is a way to move your Flipshare videos to another hard drive and not have Flipshare freak out. Matthew- Your videos are in some sort of hidden folder that makes it impossible to work with unless you go through the flip software.
My suggestion is to burn it to a DVD then stop using their software. See my posting above for the work-around. Hi I am on my 3rd Flip Mino HD and have the same problem each time……I try to save or title a video and I get an error telling mt to contact the tech dept…..
Since I downloaded the new version of software for my Flip Ultra, all of the video clips I download are in reverse order, making it impossible for me to conveniently make complete videos editing the clips together. When I downloaded video clips before and then tried to make a movie, they were all in chronological order. Now when I try to make a movie, the clips are in reverse order making it almost impossible to move around, especially when you have more than 20 clips, which I often do.
I have this same problem — when I ask support they give me the same canned answer about sorting. Did you get around this? It was just developed wrong! I was told that they get lots of irate phone calls each day about this problem. You can mention to Mr Kaplan that Gary from Canada passed on this info. I have faxed him twice… so far!! They now have a software upgrade for the FlipShare program. Please click on the following link and follow the on-screen instructions to install the upgrade onto your computer.
If you are experiencing problems during the upgrade process or immediately after upgrading, please reboot your computer and relaunch the FlipShare program to ensure that all components have loaded. If you continue to experience problem with your camcorder or the FlipShare program after upgrading, please do not hesitate to contact Flip. Is there some trick you need to know to make this happen? Thanks for yuor thoughts.
Hi James! Did you ever get an answer to this? I see you posted your comment 24 weeks ago. I would appreciate a call or email if you did! Kelli Going to get a Flip this weekend and was searching for information on how to edit the videos taken. Hopefully the software has been upgraded by now to solve all the problems mentioned here.
Is there any way that I can upload videos while using different computers regularly? Thanks for the article. I think I discovered a pretty easy solution to moving files to a new computer.
Step 2 Load Flipshare software on the new computer. Mike has the right answer for moving files to a new computer. Used the same technique for my iTunes as well. The key seems to be the small little flipshare db file.
I have all my videos on two computers and when I copy new videos over unless I delete the db file and replace the videos do not show up in the application. I like the Flip Channels because I can share movies privately with different people. But I want to be able to save in a format that I can the Import o edit my Flip movies with something more powerful. I am on Windows XP and have a a Mac older.
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