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How to convert video to avi from Flip Video Camcorder?
The flip camcorder has some distinguishing features to differentiate the Utra and Mino from the traditional Flips. The simple to use portable camcorder enables you to shoot videos as easy as taking picture. The designable outward appearance allows you to customize different styles for the flip video camcorder. The remarkable place also lies in that this small size camcorder can provide stunning video quality with less compression. The rechargeable battery pack accessories will provide you long hours of recording time. Never forget to mention that the plug-in USB connector makes it to be sharable both through e-mail, YouTube or AOL video.

The flip video camcorder usually produces videos in mp4 and h.264. But sometimes, we would prefer the avi formats as the output format if we want to do some editing with Windows Movie Maker. Is there a shortcut to convert flip video to avi?

Flip video to avi converter is an innovative video converter with perfect output quality and high conversion speed for Windows users. It can not only convert flip videos to avi, which are compatible with certain portable devices like Blackberry, Creative Zen, iRiver, but also to be edited on Windows Movie Maker. The video converter is also capable of extracting audio from video data and save as the format of mp3, wav, wma, aac, etc.

Flip video to avi converter can offer a set of powerful editing functions, which helps to create amusing flip videos. You can crop the video to remove the unwanted black sides in the frame, trim the video to convert only a part of the video clips, apply effects like brightness, contrast, saturation.

Steps: How to convert video to avi from Flip Video Camcorder?
Step 1: Connect your Flip Video Camcorder with the PC
Flip out the USB connector of the flip video camcorder and plug it into the USB port on your Windows, a link to the camera’s integrated software quickly pops up.

Step 2: Download and install Flip Video Converter and install it on your Windows

Step 3: Run Flip Video Converter and select the input files
Click”Add” on the middle left of the panel, it will open a window, browse the window and select the flip videos you would like to encode, you can load many files at once time.

Step 4: Select the output formats and output path.
Select the output format from the drop down menu next to Profile, if you select Blackberry Avi Series(*.avi), the software will output avi file playable on your Blackberry .
Press”Output” button, and specify the output destination on your computer to store your converted flip videos.

Step 5: “crop” effectIf you want to remove the black borders or just convert part of the video area from your video file, you can click the”Crop” button to crop the video file by dragging the dash line around the video or setting the exact crop values in the brackets of Top, Button, Left and Right.

Step 6: Convert the flip video to wmv formats.
After all the setting is done, you can click”Convert” button to start the conversion.You can just go out for a walk or take a nap, and the conversion may have been finished when you come back.