Ha! Plastic coffin. How true! Now that I've got a Nokia N95 my poor flip cam is sitting in the dark waiting to be picked up again. But I was happy to use it on a canoe trip a month ago and it did a great job even in the little waterproof pouch I had.
I did a video comparison of the flip with the RCA small wonder and the flip won hands down. The RCA has the very nice feature of SD expansion but the video quality is poor and the software does not exactly run off the camera as advertised. You have to install a couple of dependencies first. Here's the comparison. http://blip.tv/file/274232 http://blip.tv/file/274227 Lisa -- http://lisaharper.org On 8/4/07, Ryan Ozawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was curious about the Flip Video as an cheap, easy option to let my > kids do the video thing, but never got around to picking one up. Turns > out waiting was a good strategy, as Facebook gave away a hundred of > 'em last month and I won one. > > I just got it last night, and took it straight to the bon dance at my > local church. No instructions, no practice. And I was impressed -- > again remembering that it's a $130 gadget. Heck, its ability to > capture ANYTHING at night was surprising. > > For a while I was flummoxed to not find a single administrative menu > on the thing (I can't turn off the cheesy beeps)... but then I > realized that's exactly why this might work for kids, grandma, or the > wholly impatient YouTube fan itching to get SOMETHING online. > > The hardest part of getting started was getting the thing out of the > darn molded plastic coffin it came in. The hardest part of using the > videos it recorded was... well, using a Mac. It comes with stuff for > Windows, but to use OSX video tools takes some hacking. More hacking > than I had patience for. So I just ran the Flip Video software under > Parallels. I used the "Movie Mix" tool, strung together 25 clips, and > voila: > > > http://www.lightfantastic.org/imr/extras/videoblog/archives/2007/08/bon_dance_by_fl.html > > Not sure if I'd have bought one (over the nearly comparably priced > low-end Xacti, which has more features), but I love it given the price > I paid! > > Ryan > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
