Tutorial: How to Import and Convert Flip Video on Mac OS X?

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After you've captured some videos of your Child's /life-mate's memorable moments of life, the next step is to import the flip videos to Mac to store, fine-tune or share them. The latest Flip Video Camcorders recorded with MP4 format are supposed to work with Mac software like iMovie, QuickTime, iTunes. However, for older Flip Video Cam, which might records in AVI, MOV, or WMV format, you would have difficulty in importing Flip Videos to iMovie, or FCP. To deal with the uncooperative camcorders, you can just convert them to an appropriate format that fits your needs.

This article will guide you through importing and converting flip videos for iMovie or other video editing tools, encoding flip videos to use with QuickTime, iTunes(for organization or syncing to Apple devices), or just convert flip videos to virtually any video format of your choice.

Import Flip Video to Mac

Importing Flip Video to Mac is dead simple, here we take Flip Mino as an example:

Step 1: Flip out the USB jack and plug the camera into a powered USB port, and the Flip Cam appears on your Mac's Desktop as a removable USB drive.

Step 2: Install Flip Video for Mac and the software walks you through the process of installing the 3ivx Decoder that's necessary for your Mac to play the video captured by the Mino.

Step 3: Once the 3ivx Decoder is installed, relaunch Flip Video for Mac—for viewing, lightly editing, and sharing videos on a Web site. You can also save a copy of any video to your Mac's hard drive.

Note: For Flip camcorders record in MP4 file, you won't need Flip Video for Mac and 3ivx decoder. Worse still, iPad, iPhone and iPod do not natively support Flip cam MP4 files, so you still need to convert them before loading. Detailed guides for the Mac conversions: Flip video to iPad Mac conversion, Flip video to iPod Mac conversion etc.

Convert Filp Video on Mac

To import flip video to video editing tools like iMovie, FCP, Windows Media Editor, to Apple devices like iPad, iPod and more, or for use with any other programs and devices, the fastest and easiest way is to convert flip video with an easy-to-use Flip Video Converter for Mac.

1. Load Flip Video to the program
   Drag flip video files to the iPad Video Converter for Mac. This flip video covnerter supports batch conversion and multi-threading.
2. Select an appreciate output format
   You can select any popular video formats like MP4, MOV, WMV, AVI, DV and more. Or choose from the presets like iMovie, Final Cut Pro, iPad, iPod, iPhone, HTC, etc. and let this smart Flip Video Converter for Mac automatically choose the settings and size that fits your devices.
3. Start flip video conversion on OS X
   Bingo! That's it! Edit your flip videos or share them with friends and family Now!

   If you want to know detailed info about the conversion, you can read these step by step guides according to your aim: convert flip video to YouTube on Mac, convert flip video to iMovie on Mac, convert flip video to MP4 on Mac and more.