Question:
1. What is Flip video?
2. How to convert Flip video to AVI, MPG, WMV, MPEG, etc?
Answer:
1. The Flip Video is a simple camcorder for digital video created
by Pure Digital Technologies[1], a company bought by Cisco Systems
in March of 2009.[2] Variants include the Flip Ultra, the Flip
UltraHD, the Flip Video Mino, and the Flip Video MinoHD.
2. Flip video Camcorder records video just only in .MP4 format, how
to make it to other formats and understood by Windows Media Player,
Windows Movie Maker, iPod, iPhone, PSP and other PMPs.
All you need is just a Flip Converter which can help you solve this
problem. The Flip Converter can convert Flip video created by the
Flip family: Flip Ultra, Flip Ultra HD, Flip Mino and Flip Mino HD
as Flip Mino HD files conversion tool. With this Flip Video
Converter, you can convert Flip video to any other video/audio
formats MOV, M4V, AVI, 3GP, FLV, HD video and AAC, MP3, OGG, WMA,
etc audio formats for all the players.
Here is a simple guide for you to follow and you need a
Flip Converter.
Step 1. Files importing
You can load your video by clicking "Add File" button or clicking
"File" button, you can choose "add file" on a drop-down list. Or
even drag the video and audio files into the file list window
directly.
After importing the files, you can click button "a" to preview the
video.
Tips: It allows you to capture your favorite
pictures when you preview.
Click button "b" the current picture in the preview window will be
captured and saved in the specified folder in the image type as you
have set.
Click button "c" to open the snapshot folder to view the captured
pictures
Step 2: Choose Your Output Profile and
Settings
Profile: Select an output format for the selected
file
Settings: Click "setting" to open the Settings
windows:
Video Settings: Set video encoding settings by
selecting an encoder, a resolution, a frame rate and video
bitrate.
Audio Settings: Set audio encoding settings by
selecting an encoder, a sample rate, channels and audio
bitrate.
Tip 1: For Resolution setting, you can choose the
pre-set Resolution from the right drop-down list. You can also
directly input your own resolution as the form of "XXX*XXX".
Tip 2: You can customize the video and audio
encoding settings and save them as your own profile. After you have
chosen the encoding options, just click the "Save as..." button and
name your profile, and then the profile will be saved in the User
Defined list. You can use the customized profile next time by
selecting it from the list.
Step 3: Video Editing
1. Effect:
Click "Effect" to open the edit window to adjust the video effects.
You can adjust the "Brightness", "Contrast", "Saturation" and
"Volume".
2. Trim:
"Trim" function allows you to pick up any part of your video to
convert. You can just convert a part of your video that you
want.
There are three ways available:
Method 1: Enter the start time in the Start Time
box and click OK, then enter the end time in the End Time box and
click OK.
Method 2: Drag button below the Preview Windows to
mark the beginning of your clip and drag it to mark the end of your
clip during the preview.
Method 3: While playing video, click button to
mark the beginning of your clip and mark the end of your clip
during the preview.
Tips:
Click the second button to preview the video frame by frame.
Click preview button to preview you trimmed clip.
After you set trim time, the length of the captured clip will be
shown in the Select Length box for your reference.
3. Crop:
"Crop" means to choose a certain play area to convert.
Method 1: Crop by adjusting the crop frame. The
crop frame is the yellow line around the movie video. There are
eight small adjustment boxes on the crop frame. Each adjustment box
allows you to crop the movie video from a different position. To
crop your movie video, you can just move your mouse cursor to an
adjustment box and drag the crop frame.
Method 2: Crop by setting the crop values. There
are four crop values at the bottom of the window: Left, Top, Right
and Bottom. You can set each value to crop your movie video, and
the crop frame will move accordingly.
Step 4: Conversion
After finishing all the necessary settings and editing, you can
click "Start" to begin the conversion.
Here I also recommend you some High Definition video converter:
HD
Video Converter,
Flip Converter,
AVCHD Video
Converter, TS
Video Converter, MTS
Converter, Blu Ray
Ripper.