...and some glitches on the Macbook

Computers always have problems.

I ran into my first glitch on the Macbook.

I took some video of my kids on my Flip Ultra Video camera, and wanted to test out iMovies.

The problem is ... the newest version of iMovies doesn't accept the Flip camera's video formatting (.AVI).

After searching the web a bit, I found others with this problem. Some people were able to solve this problem by upgrading the firmware on their Flip Camera.

I tried that. No luck.

I searched the web some more, and found that there are some programs that you can buy for around $30.00 to translate the Flip Video camera's .AVI file into something that iMovie '08 can read.

Sadly, other reviews on the web say that this software works well with previous versions of Apple's OS, but doesn't work well with Leopard (the Operating System that is most current).

So ...

My Flip Video camera will sit unused on my Macbook. (I still have my Windows XP machine I can use it on).

My first Macbook problem. Fairly minor, but still annoying.