[Web4lib] Flip Video & Microsoft Movie Maker Compatibility Issue - Advice?

[Sarah Campany]

Our YS team uses MS Moviemaker - maybe it's a different version? They have also used Camtasia with a free trial version.


On Oct 8, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Thomas Bennett wrote:

> It appears to be a codec problem not format reply from last August might help:
> Thomas
> ============================
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Fli0p video cameras
> Date: Sunday 29 August 2010
> From: Charles Heffner <heffnerc1 at gmail.com>
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> 
> Hi Christa,
> 
> I'll try to help. I use Final Cut Studio (Apple) and Adobe Premiere
> Pro (Windows) for editing, and both are expensive compared to say,
> iMovie.
> 
> However, the Flip camera uses a weird, proprietary codec (3ivx)
> instead of an industry-standard one.
> 
> The Flip camera should have included conversion software to be
> installed on a computer that will allow you to convert the Flip's raw
> footage into footage you can view and edit.
> 
> You can download the free software to convert the footage here:
> 
> http://www.3ivx.com/download/windows.html
> 
> You didn't say what operating system your library uses to edit these
> videos. Is it Windows XP, Vista, or 7? Or is it Mac OS X? Please let
> us know to continue to the next step.
> 
> Thank you,
> Chuck
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday 08 October 2010 13:10:05 Pruntel,Alison wrote:
>> Please excuse cross-postings...
>> 
>> We recently purchased the Flip cameras through techsoup.org. The camera
>> comes with basic video editing software (FlipShare), but staff would like
>> to use something that would provide more advanced editing. We were hoping
>> to use Windows Movie Maker (we have 2.1 installed on our XP workstations),
>> but unfortunately the file format is not compatible. Seems like we either
>> have to purchase some conversion software or some other video editing
>> software that is already compatible with videos created with the Flip
>> camera.
>> 
>> Does anyone on the list have any suggestions/dealt with this already? I'll
>> have to get our county IT department to approve any purchase/install of
>> the software, and my initial search brought up some programs that seemed
>> to be authored by questionable sources (especially the free stuff out
>> there).
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> 
>> Alison Pruntel
>> Electronic Resources Librarian
>> Fauquier County Public Library
>> 11 Winchester Street
>> Warrenton, VA 20186
>> 540-422-8515
>> alison dot pruntel at fauquiercounty dot gov
>> FCPL Web Site: http://library.fauquiercounty.gov
>> My Blog: http://fcpleresources.blogspot.com
>> 
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