I love the flip camera. I’ve been in many situations where I have a small HD camera in my backpack and the flip camera in my pocket and I still reach for the flip.
However, funny stuff happens when I want to do some light editing with the flip and drag the .AVI files into Final Cut. First I have to render audio and video. But when I start playing the footage on my time line, there is a black flickering that happens every second or so, almost as if every 30th frame is not there.
To solve this problem, I downloaded MPEG Streamclip, which is a free video converter that converts the source .AVI files to .MOV Quicktime files.
That solved the problem. I’m now happily editing away.
MPEG Streamclip supports the following input formats: MPEG, VOB, PS, M2P, MOD, VRO, DAT, MOV, DV, AVI, MP4, TS, M2T, MMV, REC, VID, AVR, M2V, M1V, MPV, AIFF, M1A, MP2, MPA, AC3.
