The Flip Video Camera aboard our Tige':

[Wake Bandits]

The Flip Video camera:
They're about $120 and usually have a $20 rebate running.

It is very simple to operate, has built in software for your computer and a flip out usb that plugs right into your computer.

Problems start with the FLIP software it loads into your computer.
If you are "taping" a scene with the Flip camera and hit pause, that's it for You Tube.
You can only upload from pause to pause.

The next scene will create a whole new You Tube.
We'll try Grouper and see if it's the same there too.

Maynard tapes all the nitetime Boatcop stops we saw last nite, but all that came through were the flashing blue lites.

It'll let you make a movie of all your clips, but will only let you upload a single segment of that movie pause to pause.
Quality,, well, you make the call:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNXuS57F7nM

It would only upload the first scene of a 7 minute movie.

We spent hours trying to tranfer the clips to iMovie, but iMovie wouldn't have anything to do with the Flip program.
The idea being maybe an iMovie would upload the full 7 minutes.

[talltigeguy]

In Utah, you are supposed to stay 150 feet away from any other vessels if you are under way. Maybe the film makes you just look like you were too close for my comfort to the pontoon boat. I usually figure that if I can hit you with a water balloon, then I should, because you are too close, with kids swimming around the boat and all.

I was thinking recently that we need to add a section like Wakeworld has for Audio, Video and Photography. This would be a great forum to share ideas on what works for saving these types of memories. Thanks for sharing that with us.

[Wake Bandits]

In Utah, you are supposed to stay 150 feet away from any other vessels if you are under way. Maybe the film makes you just look like you were too close for my comfort to the pontoon boat. I usually figure that if I can hit you with a water balloon, then I should, because you are too close, with kids swimming around the boat and all.

I was thinking recently that we need to add a section like Wakeworld has for Audio, Video and Photography. This would be a great forum to share ideas on what works for saving these types of memories. Thanks for sharing that with us.

We were on the river with approaching traffic coming from the other way.
We were well within an approved distance, and "rotation" with out doing a head-on.

We also have a tower cam with a Sony HD recorder.
We'll try that for much better quality.


The Flip is good to keep on hand for little here and ther shots, but for pix quality and ease of transfers to email ect,, not so hot IOHO.