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Flip Video – revisited
July 11th, 2008 by misterel
I have now had my flip video for a week and most of that time it has been evaluated by ICT support. The reason for this is that I want to use it for the DiDA 202 course and possibly iMedia. This means that my pupils have to be able to edit the footage. This is where flip video develops some issues.
At school we will be using Adobe premiere elements across an RM network. The raw video from a flip video is a compressed AVI… hence the reason you can get a reasonably high quality video on 2GB of storage. Adobe will import this format, but then requires you to render the footage first before editing. This means that it can turn a 29MB file into a 100MB file. You also need to have a DivX package rolled out across the network.
So from a secondary, video editing point of view the flip video suddenly has a few issues. However, I would firstly like to say that these issues do not necessarily out way all the positives:
- Looks great (until it gets security stamped etc by over zealous techy dept)
- easy to use
- good quality
- excellent accessories (waterproof case, helmet mount (we are a sports college) and colour coordinated tripod
Plus, after consultation with ‘ICT support’ they tell me that all cameras of this style are going down similar routes and some are even using file formats that aren’t unique to the camera. Personally, I am going to get more flip cameras. Discuss with the techies about extra storage (its pretty cheap these days) and compromise on the fact that media back up might not be as rigorous as the rest of the network.
I would like to add that this is my experience so far, and if anyone has alternative views, feelings etc, then I am more than welcome to receive them.
Posted in Resources, Teaching & Learning | tagged Adobe, DiDA, flip video, iMedia, rendering | | 0 Comments
