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One of the many camera's that I have access to for my church video production activities is a Flip video camera which I won as a prize for a short film from current tv.

Many might think this is a fun camera that might not have much use for a professional, but the following flip sample video clip shows how a simple device can be used to accomplish tasks on a low budget.

Basically there was a need to shoot a very quick church video announcement, and it was about 30 minutes before the service started, so all our Sony PD170 cameras where already setup for the service and unavailable to use, my sanyo xacti CA6 digital camcorder was in the car, but I didn't have a usb cable to connect it to the Apple Macbook laptop, so we had no option than to use the Flip Video Camcorder.

Our Pastor had already been told that this was going to be an impromptu rough video, so the expectation had already been set, and nobody was expecting a HD professionally produced production. Shooting took less than 10 minutes, and due to the inbuilt USB interface cable, connection to the Apple MacBook was a very easy and it took less than 5 minutes to import the video clip.
A quick edit in Final Cut software, and the video below was the result.



Everything was ready for the time announcements were made, and we were very pleased with the quick turn around allowed us by the Flip Video Camera.

You can check out the orignal full quality file here.

See also Hitachi HD pocket digital camera.