Double The Value of Your Flip Camcorder – Today Only

Sep 18 2008

Double The Value of Your Flip Camcorder – Today Only

Published by Dany at 9:18 am under Software

Wondershare WebVideo Author

Would you like to make your Flip camcorder twice as useful without spending a penny? Today you can (tomorrow, it will cost.)

Give Away of the Day is featuring Wondershare’s WebVideo Author today. Among other things, it will convert AVI clips into both SWF and FLV.

Why is this good news for Flip owners?

The Flip records in AVI. That means you are all set to send your videos to You Tube or Vimeo or any of the other video sharing sites. And, of course, that is something all Flip owners want to do. However, after you’ve added a few of your masterpieces to You Tube, the question always arises, “Why do my videos look so much worse on You Tube than they do on my PC?”

The problem lies in You Tube’s conversion process. They compress your video to make it compatible with older, slower PCs running older, less sophisticated versions of Flash. This is a boon, because it gets your video before a potentially huge audience. But it is also a bust as far as quality goes.

The answer, as many video producers have found, is to host your videos on your own web site or blog (in addition to You Tube) when quality is critical. It is possible to embed a WMV or even an AVI file directly into your web page – but you’ll find that you lose rather than gain viewership when you do. Over 90% of internet users have some version of the Flash player installed on their PC. It is the universal medium for web video. When you post in another format, you can run into compatability and bandwidth issues. Visitors who cannot see your video are likely to be frustrated – and possibly will be annoyed enough not to return.

If Flash Is The Answer, Why Didn’t It Come With the Flip?

Converting videos to Flash can be tricky. Flash software tends to be pricey. PureDigital made a decision to keep the Flip as simple and inexpensive as possible, since that is what the greatest number of buyers wanted.

But you are not a typical vacation-bound buyer. You are an internet entrepreneur and you need more and better.

Buying Adobe’s Flash program will cost you hundreds of dollars and take considerable effort to learn. Other Flash converters are less expensive and feature-rich than Adobe, but they are still somewhat costly, especially when you may only need them once or twice a month.

That’s why you should jump on this converter from Wondershare today. The program is normally $60.00 (marked down, they say from $100.00) There are no hidden gotchas in Give Away of the Day promotions – they are really, truly free. The only rule is that you MUST download, install, and activate the program from Give Away of the Day’s site on the day it is offered.

According to Wondershare, this program will:

Record videos from Webcam or DV
Edit videos downloaded from websites, such as YouTube
Crop video clips, change video resolution and aspect ratio
Preview, cut off and take snapshots of video clips using player pane
Organize video intuitively with Story Board
Convert videos in various formats to Flash (SWF/FLV)
Create training videos with AICC/SCORM compliance for LMS (Learning Management System)

Download it for free today and start posting your own high quality flash movies on your blog tomorrow. You’ve got nothing to lose.

(And if you want to learn how to edit you Flip videos before converting them to Flash, check out the Flip Tips CD from Ghost Leg Media in the post below. The price on that one won’t stay low for long, either)