What's not to like? This is a knuckle-head simple to use, good quality-for-the-money video camera. The quality of the video ain't HD, but it is usable. The flip-out USB is a REALLY good thing. No wires to hang onto!
With my Mac, I used this and iMovie to create a neat 15 minute "Christmas 2008" video. I watched it on my Apple TV with the family. I love this kind of stuff!
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I bought this for my daughter, who will be graduating from college very soon as a teacher. She is a camera junky. She loves this video camera. She is looking forward to using it in her classroom with the kids for projects and for herself while she finishes her internship up. She also has two adorable cousins that she loves video taping. The pictures seem sharp and clear and pretty good sound also. Good product for the money!
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I would post a video review, but I can't. I have the flip video and it works great at home. I have the flip video software on my computer and it is very good for fast, easy, decent-quality video.
I brought it with me to my parents' house in Florida and wanted to play the video on my dad's computer. He does not have an accessible USB port (the flip video's USB connector is not long enough to reach past the trim on the computer to get to it) but he has a laptop and network.
So I uploaded the videos to the laptop, then copied them over the network to his desktop.
I cannot play any of the videos on his laptop. Apparenty, after a great deal of wasted time researching this, the Flip Video uses a codec from 3ivx to compress their video.
No problem, I just need to install the codec and I should be able to view the videos.
Except the Flip Video pages seem to have no codec to install, and the only codec available at 3ivx's page is a commercial application that costs $$ and allows you to encode and edit videos. I do not want to do that.
I just want to view Flip Videos on my dad's computer. I don't want to edit them with 3ivx's software, I don't want to pay to watch videos from a device that I already paid for - and most of all I wanted this to be easy. That is the whole point of Flip Video, right? You are't paying for a super high quality camera, you are paying for EASY with capital letters.
It is really hard for me to imagine that there aren't people at Pure Digital who wince every time they read this sort of complaint and wonder why the powers that be chose to use 3ivx's codecs. I understand that they needed a quality compression codec as part of the basic design of this device, but not to have purchased or licensed the ability to freely distribute a playback codec is inexcusable and greatly complicates using the videos at a later date.
I have a gigabyte of unplayable videos of my son that his grandparents cannot watch on their computer. That gets you one star.
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I was just looking for an inexpensive but reliable video camera for personal (not professional) purposes. It's so easy to use, is light and portable, and is super-fun. I highly recommend it if you're just looking to make little videos for sharing with friends and family. It's definitely worth the price!
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