- 29
- Jun
Tag : camcorder 60, flip video, minutes white, mino series
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 Company : PURE Digital List Price : $179.99 Amazon Price : $147.88 Used Price : Average customer review :  |
Features
- Pocket-sized camcorder; Flat back panel with touch-sensitive buttons; 1.5-inch color LCD screen
- 2 GB of on-board flash memory–records up to 60 minutes of video; 2x digital zoom
- Internal Lithium-ion battery recharges when built-in USB arm is connected to a computer
- Connects to TV for instant viewing
- Built-in software lets you easily edit video files and upload them to video sharing sites
Product Description
Mino is a camcorder that goes anywhere. Simply put it in your pocket! Then easily share your video on the web on MySpace, YouTube, and AOL.
Weighing in at just over three ounces, the remarkably slim yet powerful Flip Video Mino raises the bar for high-quality, portable, and easy-to-use video. Smaller than most cell phones, Mino fits neatly into a jeans pocket to capture life’s stories whenever and wherever they happen ? at a party, a concert, the beach, even on a bike ride. The Mino also features Flip Video’s built-in software that lets you simply plug the camcorder’s signature flip-out USB arm into any computer for immediate editing and sharing. For the first time, the Flip Video software lets you easily upload video directly to MySpace as well as to YouTube and AOL Video, making it even easier to share video. In addition to quickly posting videos on sharing and social networking sites, they can email videos and video greeting cards; create custom movies with their own music; capture still photos from video; save and organize videos on the computer; and, for the first time, seamlessly order and send DVDs anywhere in the world. Custom editing of movie mixes, with the option to set them to your own music Capture of still photos from video Order DVDs online and have them shipped anywhere in the world TV connection for instant viewing (cable included) Tripod mountable Internal rechargeable battery delivers up to 4 hours of use between charges Unit Size is only 3.94 x 1.97 x 0.63 HWD
Customer reviews
Excellent, easy to use and carry 
Got this recently. It works like a dream. Its partially pre-charged (nice touch) so you can get down to shooting as soon as you get it. The controls are easy- even the technologically challenged will find it a breeze. The transfer of the videos to the PC is easier. The best feature is the software which is provided within the Mino- so you can download/upload your software wherever you are. The software also makes it easy to upload your videos into websites- the compression feature is awesome.
All in all, for the price its good. Wouldn’t have minded if it was a little cheaper, but then the looks you get for it make up.
Very Easy to Use for Fun and Quick Videos
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RAUXHXNFTSNZ9 I took the Flip out for some video fun today in Provincetown, MA. It’s about the size of a new iPod, very light and easy to carry around in the included cloth baggie. In fact, I forgot I had it in my pocket because it is so light. Very easy to use. There’s a power button on the side of the Flip which turns on within two seconds. To make a video, just hold it out, with the screen facing you and press the red button in the center to start filming. The read out tells you how long the current clip is and how much longer you have left before you fill the Flip up with video. Surrounding the red record button are the pause, play, rewind touch sensitive buttons (they don’t depress, you just touch them). This lets you see the clips you’ve recorded and if you don’t like one, you can press the little trash can button to delete it. A minor issue is that it’s easy to press these buttons between recordings and you sort of lose the recording ‘view’. Not a big deal but it can happen.
The screen is pretty small and can feel a little unfulfilling when you are recording something. Mostly it’s good for framing the scene but you’re not going to see any detail on it. Also, remember to bring your reading glasses if you use them.
I plugged the Flip into both a Mac and a PC and it worked easily on both. Software loads automatically to let you download, edit, and trim all of your clips. It’s so straight forward that you don’t need a manual or any directions. The program did crash on the PC when my screen saver kicked in, but it restarted and I was able to make a movie with no other problems - (to tell the truth a crashing program is not new on a PC). There are some fun options to make old-time looking videos and you can either use Flip’s automatic music, or something from your own music library, to enhance your ‘mix’.
You use the software to make movie ‘mixes’ which means that you don’t have control over fades and such - but that’s not the goal of this little player. It’s about taking a quick and easy, hopefully fun video of something and posting it on youtube-like sites.
The ending videos are pretty small size-wise. Colors are nice and bright, contrasts looks good. I wouldn’t use the Flip to document anything that was very important to me - a graduation, a trip to Paris, a child’s piano recital. Again, the flip is more for quick fun - show the grandparents that the kids are playing on a swing, teenagers filming each other having fun at a birthday party or a theme park- those kinds of events.
I think this would make the perfect gift for a tweenish kid who is into films - they would have a blast and it would get them started in making little movies - then they could pass it on to their parents when they outgrow it.
I’ve uploaded a video that I took today while walking around town. Enjoy!
The best Flip video cam, The Mino
Flip has two previous video cams but the new, unbelieveably thin Mino is by far the best. It has 60 Gb of memory on board and is so easy to use a child can operate it. It has a pop-up USB plug to charge it’s internal battery. When it stops blinking it is charged. The same plug will allow placing mpegs in a folder of your computer.
Compact, Easy to use mini cam 
So far this mini camcorder is a lot of fun to use. Its compact, easy to use (buttons light up and work like an iPod), and believe it or not, takes decent sharp videos. I use a mac so i’ll be testing it out more and update this review in a week or so but so far the only problem I’m having is that if I use the AVi file (the native format it uses) I can play it on my mac but there is no sound. If I import it and convert it into the software that was given (no disc but its on the camcorders memory) It converts it to I think an mp4 and then there’s sound but the quality of the video degrades a bit.
I’ll need to tinker around with it some more. But as far as to take a quick movie or something to email, put on myspace or youtube, this will definitely do the trick and very well!
Crazy Fun
This is the coolest little camcorder. It fits wonderfully in your hand and is actually smaller than many cell phones. I own a mac and had no problem loading it up. That said I wasn’t trying to import anything into imovie, and instead used the software that came with the camera which was easy and responsive. Probably the easiest and fastest way to get some videos up and going. This would be a great “toy” for anyone who is not the most electronically savvy, yet still wants to capture some moments either of the the kids or grandchildren, a fast video message, or just messing around with some friends. Flip is the wave of the future. My only complaint is that I wish there was a way to add more memory. A removable card would probably be too much to ask because then people wouldn’t need to use their service. All in all though a great, fun, inventive camera.
