How to Convert Flip Video to iPod on Mac?
More and more people are starting to own flip camcorders (flip cameras, flip video camcorders, flip video cameras or whatever you call it) to take videos because they are easy to use, flexible, quick, easy to get and allow you to take videos on the fly with decent quality.
Variants of Flip video include the Flip Ultra, the Flip UltraHD, the Flip Video Mino, the Flip Video MinoHD, and the Flip Video SlideHD.
The standard definition Flip camcorders captures video in 640x480 resolution at 30 frames per second, using the MPEG-4 ASP video compression. The high definition version captures video at 1280 x 720 resolution using H.264 video compression, AAC audio compression and the MP4 file format.
The following tutorial will show you how to convert Flip Video to iPod on Mac OS X (including Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard) using Flip Video to iPod Converter for Mac.
Step 1. Download Mac Flip Video to iPod Converter and run it.
Step 2. Load the Flip Video files you want to convert
Drag and drop the Flip Video files to the program or you can click the "Add Files" button to browse your computer hard disc and add the Flip Video files you want to convert to the program.
Batch conversion is also supported by this Mac Flip Video Converter, so you can load several Flip Video files at one time.
Step 3. Output Settings
After the Flip Video files are imported, you can select an output format for each video file and specify a directory on your computer to save the output files.
If you don't know what formats your device supports, you can just select the format according to the device name. For exapmle, you can select "iPod Touch (*.MPEG-4)" when you want to convert Flip Video to MP4 for playback on your iPod Touch. The default setting works well. Of course, if you don't want to use the default video and audio encoding settings, just click the "Settings" button to customize these settings.
Step 4. Edit your Video Files
This Mac Flip Video to iPod Converter can help you set video brightness, contrast, saturation, crop video, trim video and even merge multiple files into one single file.
1. Capture a clip from your video file
Click "Trim" button to open the Trim window, and set the starting time and ending time by dragging the slider then you can convert a clip from the Flip Video file on Mac OS X.
2. Crop video footage
If you want to remove the black borders or just convert part of the video area from your video file, you can click the "Crop" button to crop the current video file by dragging the frame around the video.
3. Video effect
Click the "Effect" button and drag each effect adjustment slider to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation and audio volume. You can also choose to flip the video and apply a special video effect to your video file by selecting a special effect from: Gray, Emboss, Old Film and Negative.
Step 5. Start the video conversion
Click the "Convert" button to start converting Flip Video to iPod and then you can just go out for a walk or take a nap, and the conversion may have been finished when you come back.
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