n00b: What settings on Final Cut Pro for working with video from a Flip Ultra?

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n00b: What settings on Final Cut Pro for working with video from a Flip Ultra?

Posted by Ken Riise on December 26, 2008 at 9:19 am

I’m sure this is a really basic question, but it is stopping me enjoying trading up from iMovie (where I am reasonably competent) to FCP

What settings (on Easy Set-up?) should I use when importing/editing video from my Flip Video Ultra?

Please be as simple as possible – I am a beginner on FCP :-s

Dan Andersen replied 16 years, 5 months ago 6 Members · 6 Replies
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Bill Dewald
December 26, 2008 at 4:19 pm

FCP requires standard video frame sizes and frame rates in order to function properly. Your Flip captures 640×480 MPEG-4 video at 30fps, which is not a standard video format.

You will have to transcode your video using Compressor before you can edit it in FCP. I’d recommend the using the SD ProRes preset.

By the way, how do you like the Flip? It seems pretty neat (I’d never heard of it before.)
Ken Riise
December 29, 2008 at 9:51 pm

Thanks for the response. I’ve now found an easy way to pre-prepare my images for FCP. I’m using Visual Hub

Thanks again
Robert Mchatton
July 20, 2009 at 11:52 pm

I have been using my UltraHD Flip camera for about six weeks now. It is a great b-roll camera and for catching those spontaneous moments of life. And the audio is great.

Every day when I get to the office or home, I download the video clips to my laptop using the USB flip adaptor.

Then I just drop the video files into Final Cut Pro where I add titles, music, edit, etc.
I have made several videos using the UltraHD Flip camera. Let me know if you want me to send you some links to the video clips on youtube.

Warm regards,

RJ McHatton
Inventive Productions
Guy Cirinelli
September 3, 2009 at 4:59 pm

I’d love to see some of the videos shot on the Flip UltraHD. I am about to purchase one and am very curious how the picture looks. Thanks!
Craig Jurkoic
September 11, 2009 at 10:30 pm

I have nearly 20 years as pro cameraman and editor.
Flip is great –for what it is.
Picture and sound are good enough. But that’s not the real magic.
Because it has the “presence” of a social device ( ie. still camera, cellphone, ipod ) it’s got a humanity to it.
Plus ease, simplicity ( tapeless ) , accessibility ($200). It’s a winner.
.. and I recall shooting with $30,000 camera with a tape that was 4 times the size of this camera!
Nuttiness.
Dan Andersen
November 11, 2009 at 5:19 pm

What’s the set up in Final Cut Pro for the native FLIP files. Seems the problem is 44.1 kHz on the sound. I have to render every clip for the sound when it gets to timeline and that gets old. Video is no problem?

Thanks

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