Flipshare Users: Can You Help?

by Tego | Sci-Tech | 1934 Views

I love my Flip video camera, I know Cisco stopped supporting it a couple years ago, but it’s been working fine until this week. Flipshare no longer works for me. I’d like to pow- wow with others who have encountered, or better yet, worked through this problem. Anyone out there with a Flip who does not want to give up? Please contact me here or by e mail at info@theresamaggio.com. Thanks. Tego

Comments | 4

  • Submitted by spinoza on December 11, 2015 at 7:43 am

    Goes the way of the Dodo Bird

    I was an avid Flip user up to a few years ago, but the .wav files didn’t convert to new codecs. And for me, the iPhone universe ended up supplanting Flipshare effectiveness..so it’s been awhile.

    I used to retro configure Flip movies to edit in iMovie, but that got to be too much bother. If you have specific Q’s, give me try, might be able to help. The lowdown is ‘no longer supported’ means(more or less) digital extinction. Too bad… Flips were cool

    • Submitted by Tego on December 11, 2015 at 1:12 pm

      specific question

      Spinoza, thanks for your reply. Why do you think the software stopped working? Because of updates to Windows that outpaced the capabilities of the Flip?
      I uninstalled the Flipshare program and re installed it. I lost all the old videos ( it was ok, I had already made You Tube movies out of them), but it saved the stills I had made from videos.

      • Submitted by spinoza on December 11, 2015 at 2:40 pm

        Planned Obsolescence (sucks)

        Sorry to hear about the lost videos… Your question about updates to the OS causing conflict between Flip/Flipshare and computer seems on point, as far as my experience goes.

        Just before phasing out my Flip use and switching to iMovie, I had trouble getting old Flips to convert/play for Mac OSX. Had to do the work on an older laptop. I used to teach video with Flip in the local schools (before that was deemed a superfluous skill and I was let go) so I had the chance to use Flip with Windows Movie Maker and iMovie, and on it’s own on many machines. Flipshare always had a potential for acting quirky. Although, when it worked, I found the platform to be a quick and useful interface.

        Sorry to see this simple technology go the way of the Stereopticon.

  • Submitted by cgrotke on December 11, 2015 at 8:17 am

    Other extinctions

    Another great dodo of a camera was the Fisher Price video camera for kids. It shot video on an ordinary cassette tape, and could play it back on the TV (or be transferred to VHS!). It produced a smaller-than-full-screen black and white image.

    Sony used to make some great Hi-8mm cameras – great quality at the time. Dusty relics now.

    I’ve still got my working 8mm film projector, and occasionally pop on an old reel just for the experience. Still works A-OK.

    Got rid of my Super 8 sound projector a long while back, but did have most of that transferred to video. I also have VHS, MiniDV and a 3/4 U-matic, for good measure. : )

    It’s tough keeping up with the technology. As soon as you get something, it is obsolete. What was beyond great a year ago is puny by comparison to what’s available now. And next year…

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