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Flip Video Woes

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with RE/MAX Professionals 94238

I have been using my flip video camera for a lot of fun little things trying to figure out how I am going to use video to promote my business. (See my Ryan the Realtor post) =)

Today I filmed a three minute walk through of a listing I was holding open. I uploaded the video and was playing it back and all of a sudden the video and audio were completely out of sync!

I was talking about the appliances while the video was showing the sliding door... it just kept going about 15 seconds behind where I was shooting. The audio sounded fine not going slow but it was so out of sync I thought I was watching an old Japanese movie. You know the lips move and then the words come out...

Has anyone else had this problem?

I was using Window Media Player 11 to play the video. I had downloaded from camera to computer. Computer has 4 gigs of ram and 64bit processors along with everything else so it cannot be the machine cannot keep up...or can it....I am running Vista. I had not edited the video at all. This also happens when I play it back straight from the camera.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Best wishes,

Scott

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Jan Evett
The Premier Property Group LLC - Rosemary Beach, FL
Broker Associate, 20 years+ in real estate

Hello, Mr. Clooney,

I don't have any advice about the FLIP video... have not made myself buy one yet, but I'm thinking about it! So, I really don't know anything technical about using it!

However, I would just suggest that you keep that good-lookin' Clooney face in front of the camera and let those middle aged guys work behind the camera.  How does that sound?  

(I didn't really write this comment... it was one of those AR bugs!) :)

May 10, 2008 12:32 PM
Scott Cowan
RE/MAX Professionals - Olympia, WA

Jan- Thank you for a very well thought out post. I agree I will keep Mr. Clooney in front of the lense and keep Mr. Cowan holding the camera. I really hope that they will be able to fix the picture on my profile soon as I am tired of being mistaken for someone called dad around here!

 

May 10, 2008 12:40 PM
Bob Cumiskey
A1 Connection Realty, Inc. - Sun City Center, FL
US Army Retired, Your Sun City Center, Florida ~ Realtor

Scott, I stopped in on the hope that you had an answer.  I've been thinking about getting a flip, and a friend shot some video, we downloaded it to my computer but it wouldn't play right.  So, I've decided to hold off on it for a while.

May 12, 2008 01:04 PM
Brande Bradford
Keller Williams - McDonough, GA
Realtor

Scott - I am jealous, I want a filp camera.  I was thinking the other day how cool it would be to have one. Might just add that to my list of must haves.

May 13, 2008 06:22 AM
Gene Allen
Fathom Realty - Cary, NC
Realty Consultant for Cary Real Estate
It sounds like maybe a glitch. take some videos and see how it works.
May 13, 2008 06:27 AM