Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder, 60-Minutes (Black)

Jun 30

Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder, 60-Minutes (Black)

Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000V1PXMI
Manufacturer: Pure Digital Technologies, Inc.
Average Customer Review: (From 801 total reviews)
List Price: ~~$149.99~~
Amazon Price: Too low to display (20 new 2 used available)
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Features

Simple to use, pocket-sized camcorder with one-touch recording and digital zoom
Holds 60 minutes of full VGA-quality video on 2GB of built-in memory; no tapes or additional memory cards required
Convenient USB arm plugs directly into your computer for easy viewing and sharing
Built-in software lets you easily e-mail videos, upload to YouTube and AOL, and capture still photos from video
Watch videos instantly on TV with included cable

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description:
Pure Digital Flip Video Ultra Series is the next-generation line of highly compact digital camcorders to make it easier than ever for on-the-go consumers to shoot and share high-quality video. Slim-sized to fit neatly into any pocket, the Flip Video Ultra Series provides unmatched portability and simplicity for capturing, editing and sharing video - anytime, anywhere.The Flip Video Ultra Series is the newest member in Pure Digital’s popular Flip Video family of digital camcorders, the world’s first camcorders with on-board software to enable editing, organizing, and seamless video uploading to AOL, YouTube and other video sharing sites. Flip Video Ultra showcases Pure Digital’s next-generation video processing technology, which delivers stunning video and sound quality, even when played on large-screen TVs. The Ultra Series continues Pure Digital’s pioneering of a new category of camcorder that puts the power to instantly capture, edit and share video in the pocket of everyday consumers.The Flip Video Ultra Series incorporates a wide range of advanced new features, including a 1.5 inch transflective, no-glare display screen for clear viewing in even the brightest sunlight, next-generation video processing, and increased on-board memory.

Customer Reviews

Great for day today use.. by Rahul Mittal
I bought this for my siter in law and she loves it..

Easy to carry around.. power using a two AA battries..

In short works as advertised…

Will be buying one more for my wifey dear…

Easy to use, useless for Mac owners by Just A User
I read David Pogue’s review in the NYT and went and bought this camcorder. On the plus side, it is incredibly easy to use, and a lot of fun to record. On the seriously negative side, standard video editing software like iMovie or Adobe cannot make use of the avi files produced because of some incompatibility in codecs used. You cannot do anything with this in terms of making a compilation and sticking it on a DVD etc. So you have a bunch of avi clips lying around. Until this situation improves, it is being used as a paperweight. Pure Digital might do well to think about living in the digital age where people might want to actually use the clips in some interesting way.

Love It! by Cynthia Jaynes
We bought this for our 11 year old son and we all think it’s great. Easy to use, easy to upload and a long battery life. He can make videos with his friends, and now I don’t have to worry about documenting our travels - he does it for us.

Mac users beware! by George L. Turin
This is a neat little gadget, pocket-sized and extremely simple to use. While the video resolution is not what one can get in higher-priced and bulkier camcorders, it is adequate for family movies.

There is one serious caveat for Mac users though, which is not apparent until looking at the AVI-format video clips within the Flip software that comes with the camera. PC users can splice selected clips into a movie within this software, view the movie, and then save it to a “Movie Mixes” folder on their computer hard drive. Mac users can only splice clips and view the resulting movie, BUT NOT SAVE IT. In order to make saveable movies from the clips, one must first save the AVI clips to a folder in “My Flip Video Library,” open each in QuickTime Pro, and to export it to another folder in MPEG4 format. (Don’t forget to use the LAN/Intranet option for the transfer bandwith rather than the default setting, so as to avoid degradation of quality.) Then one must import the MPEG4 clips into iMovie to make movies from them. VERY time-consuming.

It would be SO much easier if, as on a PC, at least one could save movies in the AVI format to the Flip “Movie Mixes” folder. That might be as far as one wanted to go — the movie would be available for viewing at will. One would only need to translate the movies into MPEG4 format if one wanted, say, to burn a DVD in iDVD (which doesn’t like AVI). I’m not a computer expert, but I can’t see why the Flip people can’t make this option available.

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