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Will Flip Ultra HD connect to a non-Intel Mac?
Have a friend who wants to send me his Flip camera with video of a fishing trip for some quick editing. Does anyone know whether the Flip will feed its video into a NON Intel Mac? The Flip specs are confusing, as is the answer from their email tech support.
Flip wants Tiger or better and an Intel processor but says what’s critical is having at least 1.6 Ghz speed and 1 Gig of ram. I’ve got more of both but am operating a G5 Dual
thanks!
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The Flip site clearly states that “FlipShare” for Mac minimum requirements for the Ultra HD is 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo or faster processor.
But why would you want to use FlipShare ? Is isn’t needed … you can just access the camera via its USB connection and copy the raw files onto your local hard disc and transcode them to an FCP friendly edit codec. Your G5 can handle that just fine I should think.
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Andy, thanks – Perhaps I’m confused. I don’t care about their software at all. I just want to get the video out of the thing and into FCP on my (non Intel) G5. That’s what I need a yes or no answer on from them – (still trying with them) or someone who’s done this. I would think the G5 would handle it, but who knows?
Dennis Dean
The Dean Group
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Hi Dennis
When you plug the UltraHD into your Mac it just shows up as a USB Mass Storage device like any other, no special driver is needed, it works just fine no matter what Mac you are using. (No I don;t have one, but 2 minutes on google and an ounce of common sense will back up what I’m telling you). You then have access to the camera native clips (H264 files wrapped in an MP4 container) that are inside the DCIM folder within the mounted camera storage. You can transcode these just fine with MPEG Streamclip.
Is that clearer 🙂
Best
Andy -
Yes – that’s fabulous! Thanks very much. (Sorry, but I’m a visual learner.) Even better – access to the native H.264.
thanks again and have a great weekend.
DD
Dennis Dean
The Dean Group
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http://www.deangroup.com
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