Flipping for Flip Video

For the last year or so I’ve been thinking about Flip Video. Not in any serious way just in an I’m sort of interested way. TW’s been thinking the same thing. Nothing ever pushed us into buying one and trying it it out, though. I should have taken one to BlogHer Con. We should have taken one to England when we visited the little kids. But we didn’t. We were still wondering about it and thinking about it.

Around Thanksgiving, I started to see Rosie blogging about Flip Video. Interesting. The woman takes a lot of photos and a lot of videos and here she is raving about Flip Video? I got interested all over again.

Then, we realized TW was going to be in Atlanta on the day of RJ’s holiday concert. I started thinking more about the Flip Video – particularly once I realized I was not going to Atlanta with her and Michelle’s video camera (that I’ve never learned to operate) had been loaned to one of her friends. I went back to Rosie’s blog and looked again at her videos… Flip Video wasn’t going to be the perfect solution to recording the missed moment for TW, but it was worth a try.

So, I headed out to Office Max (where they just happened to be on sale) and grabbed one. And it worked pretty damn well.

Even though I was like 15 rows away from the stage in less than ideal lighting. The sound was really good and the video quality was good enough from that distance that you could actually make out which kid was ours.

Awesome.

I don’t feel like I can post the videos publicly because there are tons of kids in these things who may not want to be blogged so we’ll make some little videos and I’ll share them as we go. In the meantime, if you’re wondering whether Flip Video is for you – check out Rosie’s videos, they’re all being done with the Flip – even this dolphin flick.