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Review: Flip Video Ultra

Aug 13, 2008  By Shawn Powers
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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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The Flip Ultra compatibility with UBUNTU?

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 16:55.

I have been looking everywhere online for an answer. If someone can help me, that'd be great! I'm not a computer whiz (that's my husband) and I'm buying the Flip Ultra Camcorder for him. We run Ubuntu on our computers. Will the software be compatible with my OS? Thanks!

Housing?

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 22:34.

What housing did you use to videotape the underwater stuff?

Flip on EEE PC

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Submitted by Thomas Wieken (not verified) on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 08:42.

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

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Submitted by Mike Frandsen (not verified) on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 23:08.

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?

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Submitted by Gregg (not verified) on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 18:57.

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

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Submitted by Shawn Powers on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 19:39.

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.

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Submitted by Free (not verified) on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 09:44.

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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