Review: Flip Video Ultra
August 13th, 2008 by Shawn Powers in
Linux Journal Gadget Guy, Shawn Powers, reviews the Flip Video Ultra, a small portable video camera, and shows us how easy it is to edit the video with Kino.
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Housing?
On August 11th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) says:
What housing did you use to videotape the underwater stuff?
Flip on EEE PC
On July 27th, 2009 Thomas Wieken (not verified) says:
The EEE PC Linux doesn't recognize the Flip. Do you know how to make it work?
I have contact Flip a number of times and they just like Windows and Apple.
Thanks for the help.
Tom Wieken
Flip Video Ultra stops working
On January 22nd, 2009 Mike Frandsen (not verified) says:
My Flip Video Ultra stopped working all of a sudden. I've read on the web that there are a lot of people who have this happen to them. It's beyond the 90 day warranty, but the company is selling a product they know is defective. I called customer support and gave them my number twice and they were supposed to get back to me and never did. Then I called the "second tier" of support and they told me to go to the website to fill out the support form. No matter what email address I enter, it says, "this email is already in the database." Sounds like when companies blow you off just to hope that you'll give up.
Was the sound also from the Flip?
On August 13th, 2008 Gregg (not verified) says:
I'm guessing that it wasn't. It sounded too good. I have a Flip Ultra, and while the built in mic is good, it's not that good. You probably used a separate device to capture the sound. If that's the case, you should have made that clear in the video. As it is this video is going to mislead a lot of people as to the sound recording capability of the Flip.
It WAS the Flip
On August 13th, 2008 Shawn Powers says:
Absolutely without question. The only voiceover work was when I was recording the Flip with my camcorder (I was certain no one would think I was recording that footage with the Flip itself, audio or video).
Seriously, I did the whole thing with just the Flip.
__________________________Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. You might find him chatting on the IRC channel, or Twitter
Free Porn
On August 19th, 2008 Free (not verified) says:
Absolutely without question. The only voiceover work was when I was recording the Flip with my camcorder (I was certain no one would think I was recording that footage with the Flip itself, audio or video).
Seriously, I did the whole thing with just the Flip. (+1)
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