Flip video

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Nan and others,

    Yes, there is an issue with file size on the flip and ALL other HD cameras.  But you are not supposed to be working with the huge raw video files that they use on the cameras themselves.  You are supposed to take the raw video and compress it into a much smaller QuickTime .mov format using iMovie and one of the MP4 compressions.  It is not that difficult and then the file size problem goes away.  By itself, the FLIP doesn't solve this problem.  You have to do file compression.  It is not that difficult and it doesn't take that long.  Once you get used to doing this, you will be getting really lovely video.  Please see the advice we have at http://talkbank.org/dv

--Brian MacWhinney

On May 29, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Nan Ratner wrote:

> We have been using FLIP and another similar project to BACK UP, not
> serve as primary data collection, for an ongoing project observing
> parent-child play. We figured that devices like that produce a pretty
> easy record for initial transcription pass. The thing to keep in mind is
> that perversely, the HD formats, which are the most common kind, produce
> files that are TOO BIG to cut to CD easily for CHAT transcription. As
> FLIP went increasingly HD, we found a product by RCA (Small Wonder) that
> we could get that produces acceptably sized files with acceptable video
> quality. It is not the most durable device for constant lab use,
> though.
> Nan
> 
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>>>> Aliyah MORGENSTERN <aliyah.morgenstern at gmail.com> 5/29/2010 3:04 AM
>>>> 
> Dear Susan,
> Thanks to Brian and his team, you have some useful information on  
> talkbank:
> http://www.talkbank.org/dv/ 
> We are still a bit prehistoric here, we bought very good mini dv  
> equipment and haven't changed it yet but talkbank is up to date...
> best,
> Aliyah MORGENSTERN
> 
> Professeur de linguistique
> Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
> Institut du Monde Anglophone
> 5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine
> 75006 Paris
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Le 29 mai 10 à 03:55, Susan Foster-Cohen a écrit :
> 
>> Hi all
>> 
>> Does anyone have any experience using the tiny flip HD video  
>> recorders for collecting naturalistic data?
>> And/or what would you recommend for collecting quality video with  
>> quality sound for immediate hard disk storage, playback,  
>> transcription and analysis?
>> Any feedback would be gratefully received. (I am currently still in 
> 
>> the world of HDV minitapes and copying to DVD and thence to hard  
>> drive.)
>> 
>> Susan Foster-Cohen
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