| | |  | Gift Ideas for Baby | Home » » Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder, 30-Minutes (Black) OLD MODEL | | | | | | | Description: | | The Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder is a revolutionary new way to shoot and share videos. Its portable, simple-to-use design makes it incredibly easy to create high quality home movies. The camcorder's built-in software provides a convenient, seamless way to save and share memories: email videos, make custom movies, capture still photos from video clips, and upload videos directly to popular video-sharing sites, including AOL Video and YouTube. Flip Video Ultra is the ideal, affordable choice for capturing everyday moments that happen anywhere, and sharing them with family and friends everywhere. This next-generation version of the original Flip Video line features a new sleeker design, premium no-glare LCD screen, and improved video and audio quality. Flip Video Ultra comes with a TV connector cable, wrist strap, soft carrying case, two AA batteries, and a quick start guide. Specs: Flip Video Ultra incorporates 1GB of built-in flash memory which holds up to 30 minutes of 30-frame per second full VGA-quality MPEG-4 video. Compatible with Windows XP SP2 and Vista; Macintosh OS X 10.3.9 or later. Computer connection via integrated USB Port. | | | Features: | |
• Simple to use, pocket-sized camcorder with one-touch recording and digital zoom
• Holds 30 minutes of full VGA-quality video on 1GB of built-in memory; no tapes or additional memory cards required
• Convenient USB arm plugs directly into your computer for easy viewing and sharing
• Built-in software lets you easily e-mail videos, upload to YouTube and AOL, and capture still photos from video
• Watch videos instantly on TV with included cable
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 1.25 inches | | Product Width:
| 2.16 inches | | Product Height:
| 4.17 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 6.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 4.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1589 reviews |
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Will Live Longer Than CockroachesJul 31, 2010
I bought my second flip video about 3 years ago and it is still in working condition today. This little guy has had drum sticks thrown at it in the band room, binders crushing it in my back pack for at least 3 months, waves splashing, dropped, picked up, dropped again... my Flip Ultra has handled just about anything; so a thousand stars for durability! On the other hand... my Flip has crashed countless times, which is fixed simply by taking batteries out and putting them back in, but it is a hassle. I though about the fact that maybe my flip just isn't converting the batteries efficiently, but i am pretty sure the staticy screens aren't just from battery shortage. Video quality is decent for simple home videos, but if you are interested in making fun movies, I would think about other options. Downloading video footage is simple as pie, but the sound quality of the videos is greatly disappointing. Now, all of this coming from a girl whose flip's lens has a big ol crack right in the middle keep in mind. Overall the flip is a great device and a great concept, but if you are really interested in quality, maybe you should check out one of the newer flip products, or invest in a really nice camcorder, that might not have the portability. Have fun filming :D
Simple way to make home movieJul 12, 2010
I use this mainly to make short clips that I upload to youtube. It fits in your backpack, purse, or even your shirt pocket. It's nice to have this around when something intersting or ugent is happent, like a robbery or assult. And kind of makes you an amateur reporter. I'd talk to restaurant owners and store managers about how they run the shop, and some crazy fans after a sports event. Pretty sweet camera, video quality is averge, it's not high definition, but who really needs HD, it's such a bandwidth killer anyway.
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Keeping it simpleJul 05, 2010
This made a great gift for our daughter-in-law who has three children under the age of 5. As you can imagine, her primary need in a video camera was to keep it simple. She needed something she could grab on the fly and not have to look for parts or cables, let alone find a mini-tape or a DVD that is not recorded on. The other important part was that it would provide the quality videos that we all want our family recordings to be.
I have now watched her use this camera at several family events - including a recent pre-school graduation event. One of the things that is interesting watching her use the camera is to see how lightweight it is, both in allowing her to hold it up above everyone's heads and how long she can hold it there. It is also interesting that she could review what was actually being recoded clearly and easily. These qualities make this video camera series infinitely preferable to our much older and clunkier Sony DCR-HC52 MiniDV Handycam Camcorder & 40x Optical Zoom Carl Zeiss Lens. I have been reluctant to give up the Carl Zeiss lens and have been looking for a second camera that may not be of equal quality but is much easier to use for those times when I need a video camera in a hurry. It's hard to match the picture quality of any Carl Zeiss lens but I need something faster and easier.
There are also a lot fewer buttons on this video camera which makes it much more user friendly. My family members are notorious button pushers who press buttons that look right rather than check the manual to find out how to do things.
This Flip camera has been a great addition to our family's taping needs.
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 Terrible!!!Jun 24, 2010
I had the flip camera for one whole week, then it stopped working. Instead of writing my husband a note for our wedding day, I recorded a video for him. We used the flip camera on our honeymoon for pictures of our trip and all our excursions. I get home to upload the videos and it won't even turn on. I've tried everything. This is a terrible product. I got new batteries and followed advice from their support, but now because of this video camera, we've lost important videos from our wedding day and honeymoon.
 Very Easy and CheapJun 18, 2010
It takes great quality video for 100 dollars.
It has about 3 buttons so it's ridiculously easy. The design is simple and intuitive. It's not trying to do a ton of stuff, so it's very simple and easy to use. There is the power, record, play, and delete - that's it!
The battery, if you use alkaline, lasts about 1.5 hours, so I NEVER watch the videos on the flip using the play button. It's bad enough when I'm just TAKING the videos! If you get lithium batteries, it will last several hours, and is a lot better.
The USB arm is cute, but hard to get in places like the back of your computer tower.
Occasionally it will crap out on me and the screen will look gray and black and funny because it froze. It has recovered and works great 98% of the time. I think it's done that to me maybe 3 or 4 times and I've owned it for a year or so. If you wait a while and then turn it back on, it is usually fine.
You can have it surprisingly far away from the action, and it will pick up the audio just fine and the things pretty far away still look good and not ridiculously far away. (I'm talking family parties etc, it does a good job capturing everybody nicely).
It can stand up on it's own so you can put it down and film without holding it!
Very portable.
60 minutes is about the amount of time an outing takes. Occasionally I get to about the end (although sometimes it gets confused in a good way and as given me up to 20 minutes over the hour...), but rarely do I need much more than an hour, and most of the time I don't need the full hour. A 2 hour might be nice, but I would probably end up leaving video on it for longer than on this one and then fill it up anyway!
The flip software to get the videos off is easy to use, and allows you to take snapshots of the video, but only if it's on your camera still and you can't put it back on your camera once it's off. The software gets confused sometimes, but it's good when it works. Also, it will look like it's starting to move the videos and if you walk away you may not realize it pops up several seconds later to demand that you click Ok to a message that says, it may take a while or something. Quite annoying. I think it's just easier to cut and paste the videos from the folder rather than using the software personally.
The little jingle it plays when it turns on and the beep it makes when you hit record, makes it incredibly obvious if you're trying to be discreet.
Overall I have been quite pleased with it.
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