Import flip video to mac

 

May 31, 2011 1:17 pm / Posted by Bill Smith to Camcorder Tips
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Part one: FAQ about import flip video to Mac

FAQ: When many friends import flip video to Mac, iMovie, iTunes, iDVD,Quicktime etc, many problems pop up, just as below:
a: Connect my flip camera with Mac through usb, but can not play flip video on my Mac?
b: I'm trying to import videos from my flip video camera into imovie, etc on my mac. every time i try, only the audio gets imported with a blank screen, or only shows a "record using isight" tab instead of the "import" tab. Does anyone know how to fix this?
c: When i import flip video to QuickTime , it crashes and always the same report shows up" The file could not be imported:can't be imported; QuickTime couldn't parse it: -2048." need help! please!
d: I recorded about 10 min of footage from flip mino HD, plugged it into the itunes, open it, all it does is freeze in the loading screen. I really don't want to lose this footage so please help!!!

Diagnosis
For Mac users, Macintosh supports MPEG-4, namely MPEG-4 part 2 (a.k.a. MPEG-4 simple profile) and MPEG-4 part 10 (a.k.a. H.264).iMovie,, iTunes, iDVD,Quicktime etc like mov etc best. If you are having issues with playing your Flip videos on your Mac computer, you need to download the necessary codecs or convert flip video to right formats.

Solutions:
1: Someone recommends installing the free FlipShare software, and run FlipShare at least once to install the required codecs to enable playback of your Flip videos on your Mac. However, flipshare only convert flip video to wmv, and newest version even no this function
2: Someone suggest：Try connecting first before launching iMovie and see if that fixes it. Then vise-versa if no luck. You might have to try different combos like powering on the camera then plug it in or plug it in then power up. Try as many combos as you can before ruling out a worse problem. Sometimes it's just a bad connection - bad cable. Be patient and it should work with the right combination. You also can try, but to be frank, useless and waste time.
3 : Download various codecs may help you, however, complex and you must be a master-hand. I just suggest a simple and useful way for all the people, iorgsoft flip video to Mac converter decode you flip video to Mac by just three steps.

Flip video to Mac converter supports batch convert flip video to Mac mp4,mov, dv, h.264/ mpeg-4 avc.