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
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