I own a Flip video camera and for what it is meant to do I like it. However once I get my videos off the camera I can not hear the audio anymore. I still haven’t found a solution on the internets and even their own website admits the problem, but their solution of “update your software” does not work for me nor does it seem to work for a number of others. The odd thing is, if I upload the video to YouTube or Flickr the audio track comes back.
What a pain!
update, after some more searching around I found this solution, which if you read the comments the author recommends removing old QuickTime video codecs and only leaving Perian installed. Worked for me!
I have downloaded your automator, but it says “no flip videos found” when I attempt to open it. Not sure what I need to do. I have MANY flip videos stored on my macbook (in Finder I can view all of the .AVI files). How do I use the automator to get my .AVI files converted and loaded into iMovie? Thanks!!
Comment by Rebecca — August 29, 2009 @ 8:54 pm
I didn’t write the Automator script but did find another solution that I will try and post about soon. I removed all of my QuickTime plugins and added them back in one by one until I found the one was conflicting with the Flip videos.
Comment by Ryan — August 29, 2009 @ 9:51 pm