Flip Camera Follow Up by Jake Ludington

"How do I get Flip camcorder videos in Microsoft Movie Maker? I tried adding a video to Movie Maker by dragging and dropping the file, but it shows up as an MP3."

Flip makes it insanely simple to record and edit movies on your computer, as long as you use the Flip Video application. Things get a little more complicated if you want to use other applications, like Windows Movie Maker, Roxio Easy Media Creator, Nero Vision Express, etc. The best way to insure success, is to first launch the Flip Video software from your Flip camcorder, which makes sure their video codec installs on your computer before you save the videos to your hard drive. After you step through the Flip Video software for the first time, follow these steps each time you want to edit your Flip videos with Windows Movie Maker.
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Connect the Flip camcorder to your PC and launch the Flip Video for PC software.

Save your videos to your PC by clicking the Save Videos link in the Features section.

Choose the videos you want to save by clicking on them. Click the Save button in the Save to Computer box.

Select Create New Album and click Save, choosing a name for your album. The default save location is My Documents > My Flip Video Library.

Once the save process is complete, open Windows Movie Maker and choose File > Import Into Collections, or click Import Video from the Movie Tasks links. Locate the Album folder you just created (likely in My Documents > My Flip Video Library). Select the video or videos you want to edit.

Once the videos are imported you can drag them to the timeline, add effects, and publish a movie from Windows Movie Maker.

Note: If this process does not work, connect your Flip camcorder to your PC. Open Windows Explorer and find the Flipvideo drive on your computer. Click on the System folder on this drive, then click the Install folder. Run the 3ivx_d4_451_win.exe application on your computer to install the required codec to edit your videos in Windows Movie Maker, and then repeat the Import Into Collections step above.

Flip Camera: Editing Capabilities?

How can I edit video from my Pure Digital Flip camera?

grisetti steve - 12:12pm Dec 31, 2007 Pacific

These fun and affordable cameras are portable, easy to use and produce surprisingly good video. It's probably not surprising, though, that its video is not the ideal format for editing with Premiere Elements. (The software that comes, as a free trial, with the camera, is much better suited to the camera's needs.)

However, you may be able to work with the video with a bit of system tweaking.

The video in the camera is saved as a variation of the MPEG4-AVI (Pure Digital calls it an "Advanced Profile" codec), a codec that is pretty non-standard and may not be installed on your computer at all.

To install the codec, plug the camera into your computer's USB port If this process does not work, connect your Flip camcorder to your PC. Open Windows Explorer and find the Flipvideo drive on your computer. Click on the System folder on this drive, then click the Install folder and double-click to run the 3ivx_d4_451_win.exe application.

If anything will make Flip files editable in your computer, installing this codec will. Jake Ludington has more details on how to interface with this camera on his excellent site:
http://www.jakeludington.com/movie_maker/20070925_edit_flip_camcorder_videos_in_windows_movie_maker.html