Flip Video MinoHd
Jul 26th, 2010 | By SimonRight out of the box the Flip MinoHD is ready to use. My battery was charged and ready to go and the only thing you may want to do is attach the lanyard to prevent the MinoHD from falling to the ground should you accidentally drop it. The lanyard wasn’t super easy to install but after some fiddling I managed to get the rope in place.
From a software perspective everything is contained on the Flip MinoHD’s flash drive. Once you plug the MinoHD into an available USB port the Flipshare software will automatically start. Flipshare is Flip Video’s software to viewing and organizing videos, emailing videos to friends and family, publishing clips online, making movies and capturing movies. After a couple clicks for user agreement and installation, you’re ready to rock and roll!
Running the software you can see all of your recorded videos on the Flip MinoHD as well as the ribbon giving you the ability to share and create videos.
Overall, the interface is simple and incredibly easy to use. To copy the videos over from the MinoHD to your computer you highlight the videos you want and choose Save to computer. A progress bar at the bottom right indicates whether or not the file saving is complete.
To share videos you have a number of options. If you want your video sharing to be more personal, you can email files to friends and family.
You can also create a Flip Channel which privately shares the videos with subscribers.
If your videos are more of the general public then you will want to use popular video sharing sites. In this case Flip Video has completed the upload properties for you with a number of popular sharing sites (Facebook, MySpace, YouTube). All you need to do is login, select the files you want to upload and let Flipshare do the rest.
During the holiday season it may be fun to create a custom greeting card and email to friends. This has already been thought of by Flip Video and they have a few pre-made backdrops for you to use!
On a more professional front you can create your own videos and burn videos to DVD with Flipshare.
