Flip's Slide HD

The Flip used to create video files that could be edited in ANY video editing software, but not any longer.

Flip’s software doesn’t even allow me to EXPORT or even MAKE a MOVIE in another video format!  All Flip videos originate, export as, and makes a movie ONLY in a flip video codec wrapped in an mpeg-4 format.

Bye bye AVI and WMV options.

THE RESULT: Not one of my six video editing software programs on my PC can import any video or movie made by The Flip.

It’s true that some people don’t realize their Flip camera is only an upgrade away from being completely useless to them. This is because some people continually refuse the free software upgrade that Flip prompts them to install each time they plug in their camera to a computer.

THAT’S PART OF THE PROBLEM – The camera I bought is NOT the same camera I own today. The software that runs your flip is called FLIPSHARE and lives on the camera itself.  So if Flip wants to limit your ability to use competing software they just prompt you to install the newest upgrade to FlipShare.

From Wikipedia: “Flip Video’s accompanying software is called FlipShare. The current release, version 5.6, no longer includes a function to convert video to WMV format. While this has been acknowledged by Cisco as a defect, a fix has yet to be announced. Furthermore, there is no way to revert to a previous version once the new software is installed.”

SOLUTION #1
Buy the Kodak Zx1 which also originates its’ video in high quality mpeg-4 format BUT Kodak’s mpeg-4 doesn’t contain the proprietary codec soooo they easily import into other video software programs (for now)! The Zx1 also has an external MIC JACK option!

SOLUTION #2
My second suggestion, use a free software called Super © to convert your flip videos to usable videos that every video editing software program will understand. SUPER  © offers video and audio file conversions into many other formats. I use this gem of a freeware often. And it’s a must have if you own a Flip Video Camera.

Nerissa Oden
www.TheVideoQueen.com

PS – If you’re interested in more freeware for video, please visit my website http://www.freemediaguide.com/free_video_makers.html

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First, a friend has created a modern day Video Code Maker. His creation marries the HTML scripts from your existing accounts (Aweber, Paypal, etc) to your videos. Unlike VideoCodeMaker.com which marries your scripts AROUND your videos, my friend’s creation marries your codes, links and scripts INSIDE your videos.

Just upload your videos to his website, then insert your links and scripts into your account. Next, indicate when you want your links etc to appear withIN the video. Lastly, just copy and paste your new video code onto your web pages, or share by integrating other accounts.

So this is a pretty cool way to use existing technology in a way that is easy for YOU! And you know I love affordable and easy video tools!

(NOTE: The downside of this new service is the Privacy Policy states it can place third party advertising inside your videos, too.)

This announcement is bittersweet, I admit.

I heard about this new service last week. When I asked the website’s creator what it did and if my list (you) would be interested in knowing about it, he told me didn’t know much about his product because his staff was creating it. He continued that he had just made the video for its sales page that day and spent thousands of dollars over several months researching and developing it. I then asked if it was like Video Code Maker? He responded, “What is that?”

I was dumbfounded.

After all, my friend and I spent three years meeting every week in the same Master Mind where I got support to make my groundbreaking website http://FreeVideoCoding.com and my groundbreaking software http://VideoCodeMaker.com

Also, I have heard from others that he regularly uses my http://FreeVideoCoding.com and which links to my VideoCodeMaker.com

A couple days later my friend stood his ground with his new creation and told my husband, “Video Code Maker is completely different than my product.”

Thus, this bittersweet announcement….. A new video tool is at http://www.VideoLinkGenerator.com is ready for you to try. It is different enough from my groundbreaking software http://VideoCodeMaker.com that I don’t have ill feelings for my friend for creating his first video product.

I just wish I could be celebrating with him instead of having to remind him of who I am and what I have done.

Sincerely,

Nerissa Oden

http://TheVideoQueen.com

http://FreeVideoCoding.com

http://VideoCodeMaker.com

http://FreeMediaGuide.com

http://FreeVideoEditing.com

1. A newspaper has taken on the task of making photo movies to tease and enhance their upcoming stories in print. Bravo!

2. The person who put this photo story together did so very consciously but to us it appears smooth and engaging. Movie editing should appear seamless and invisible to the untrained eye; magic. Notice how the issue of faith appears as the photo moves to reveal the cross. Bravo!

Watch at Collie Story.

Enjoy!
Nerissa Oden
www.thevideoqueen.com

I’d put nothing past the cultural wisdom of Justice Scalia whose prevailing brief included these stunning insights: “We doubt that small town broadcasters run a heightened risk of liability for indecent utterances… their down-home local guests probably employ vulgarity less than big city folks, and small town stations generally cannot afford or cannot attract foul-mouthed glitterati from Hollywood.”

Look how he nails us all — kids; small-town folk; big city creeps; trashy Hollywood types — does this man know his Americans, or what?!

How Advertisers Psychologically Mug Women
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/85293/

(excerpt) “While marketers may be aware that women are major spenders on the so-called small stuff — groceries, apparel, kids — they are not fully aware that women are the majority of buyers of new cars, consumer electronics and home improvement,” says Marti Barletta, CEO of the marketing consultancy TrendSight Group, who was a keynote speaker at last week’s annual M2W marketing conference in Chicago, which debated how marketers could improve their appeals to women. Women’s Purchasing Power is Green, Not Pink.
Marketers, Barletta says, “are worried that marketing to women means making it pink and that would horrify men. … They don’t know what marketing to women is.”
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Video of slow motion shot with this camera onthis link
http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/69013/gadgets-and-gadflies