How to convert flip video to Mpeg-4 on Mac and sync flip video mpeg-4 with iTunes then on iPhone, iPod on Mac?
If you recorded some video clips with the Flip Mino or Flip Ultra, it's your son's birthday party, you want to save the happy moments onto iTunes, then play on iPod, and let him share with his schoolmates, but the iPod didn't recognize your flip video. Now, please read on, if the problem happens, we'll teach you how to solve this problem.
Some Flip camcorders support MPEG-4, some support AVI format, how do you get your music and movies from your Mac or PC to your iPhone or iPod? ITunes does it for you; iTunes can also transfer photos, contacts, and calendars to your iPod, so you need convert your Flip home video to the formats iTunes support first, and how to convert?
Flip video to MPEG-4 Converter helps you convert flip video into MPEG-4 format with proper video size for playback on iPod, iPhone, iPad, as well as other MP4 player like PSP, Apple TV, iTunes, iMovie, etc. With it you can customize the output iPhone or iPod video quality by setting the video resolution, frame rate, encoder, bit rate, and audio sample rate,channel, encoder, bit rate.
What is Flip Camcorder?
Flip Camcorder is a simple camera, a sleek, hip-looking gadget that change the way people capture and share videos, it's portable, simple-to-use design makes it incredibly easy to create high quality home movies, and with it ,you can capture everyday moments that happen anywhere, and share them with your family and friends everywhere.
Besides, the flip camcorder's build-in software provides a convenient way to save and share video memories, such as email videos, make custom movies, capture still photos from video clips, upload videos to popular video-sharing sites, including AOL video and YouTube.
Why most popular devices like iPod, iPhone support MPEG-4 format?
MPEG4 is a file format that is commonly used to store video, audio, subtitles, chapters and all kinds of other things; MPEG-4 promises to create interoperability for video delivered over the Internet and other distribution channels. iPod and iPhone must cooperate with iTunes, which is a digital media player application, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files on Mac and PC. iTunes supports the video files in mp4 format, the same to iMovie, a video editing software application on Mac. Besides, the ISO chose the MPEG-4 as the foundation of the QuickTime's file formats, because it can support media with Apple's QuickTime technology for over a decade, storing each new type in a separate track.
Step by Step to convert flip vieo to mpeg-4 on Mac OSX.
Step 1: Free download and run Mac Flip video to mp4 converter
Step 2: Click add files to add the home flip video you have recorded
Step 3: Click the profile pull down list to select the output file format (mpeg-4), you can also choose a destination for the output files.
(Note: if you want to change the length of the video, click "Trim"button to set the start time and the end time; click"Edit"button to do some cropping and change the effect to the best.
Step 4: Select convert button to start flip video to mp4 conversion.
Step 5: Click open on the bottom middle to find the converted file. (You can use the FlipShare to save and share video memories)
Step 6: Through iTunes to import flip home video to your smart iPod.
