flip video to dvd/blu-ray recorder??

moneysavingwannabe

Hi,

I have a flip video recorder (wish I'd never bought it!!)

I have been trying to convert to store on a dvd but takes hours.
Does anyone know of a quicker way? I have a blu-ray recorder which takes usb/dv inputs but doesn't seem to recognise the flip.

Can you get usb to dv cables?
Or hdmi to av?

Have been googling but not getting very far. Plus don't want to buy cables if it won't work.

Any help appreciated!
Thanks

KillerWatt

moneysavingwannabe wrote: »

Can you get usb to dv cables?
Or hdmi to av?

No
No

A quick look on the Flip website shows that the data is recorded in MP4 format using H.264 compression for video and AAC compression for audio.

If you can see the camera memory card as a drive in My Computer then there should be no reason you can't drag the data to yourPC and work on it from there.

If you can't directly access the recorded data, then you'll have to do it in real time I'm afraid.

moneysavingwannabe

Hi,
Thanks for your reply. I have managed to convert in realplayer but it takes far too long. About an hour for just a few minutes of video.

I have about 2 hours worth to convert (all newborn footage of my baby) I want to put it onto a dvd that will play on a dvd player.

Anyone found a solution? I have wasted far too long trying to do this!!

:mad:

KillerWatt

moneysavingwannabe wrote: »

I have managed to convert in realplayer but it takes far too long. About an hour for just a few minutes of video.

Realplayer sucks, get some better conversion software.

I use ConvertX to DVD and can convert & author a 45 minute RM file to DVD format in under 8 minutes on an old P4 E8400 with 3GB of RAM and a Crucial C300 256GB SSD.

The 8 minutes obviously doesn't include the burning time, that takes another 5 mins on top.

john1

I have a Flip and recently came across Freemake.com and find its fine for Flip videos conversion very simple to use

moneysavingwannabe

Hi,
Thanks for your replies. I will try the programs you've suggested.
Wish me luck!