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Can not sync video (movies) from iPhoto to iPad

iPad 64GB 3G
MacPro
iPhoto 8.1
iTunes 9.1.1

I have a small number of videos (movies) managed in iPhoto. They cam off my digital camera and they go into iPhoto. everything has always been happy.

I select a small number of them and add them and some photos into a new album for my iPad. The photos work fine (shot and stored as jpeg and RAW) the videos do not transfer over. There is an error message about the .mov format not supported.

So why does the Apple iTunes not know how to get the Apple iPhoto movies and put them on the Apple iPad so I can see them?

I had to save a video from iPhoto out to file and open with Quicktime and then resave it and let iTunes sync it to GoodReader in order to see it on my iPAD. So why do I need a third party tool and a work around to get all of the Apple tools to work for my iPad when they seamlessly work for my iPod?

MacPro dual-quad 12GB - 3.5TB, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2@20" and 1@24"

Posted on Jun 20, 2010 8:16 PM

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Posted on Jun 20, 2010 9:58 PM

Greetings,

iPad, like iPods and iPhones and Apple TVs, reads certain types of movie files.
The movies you are trying to sync are most likely, not a format that is compatible with iPad.

iTunes includes a built in feature that will convert movie files to the proper format. Take a look at the iTunes help menu: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesMac/9.1/en/31445.html

Drag your desired movies out of iPhoto and drop them into iTunes. You can then follow the above help article to convert them to an iPad version.

You can also read about the specific formats that iPad supports: http://support.apple.com/kb/SP580
__Look under "TV and video"

On an unrelated note, there are new versions of iPhoto and iTunes available. You can download them by going to the Apple Menu and Software Update.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1056
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL970

Hope that helps.
86 replies

Nov 1, 2011 12:59 AM in response to bardaskan

@bardaskan:


Even if it is the 50% capacity issue, this means that any new videos won't get synced unless you un-sync some folders, sync the new videos, then sync the old folders you un-synced. Which is not an ideal solution at all.


I am running into this same issue; videos that are in a .m4v file using the H.264 codec will not sync over to my iPhone 4S. 282 of 293 videos sync over, but the last 11 will not sync. All the videos are in the same format and they all play back in Aperture, iTunes, and QuickTime just fine.

Mar 5, 2012 3:30 PM in response to wpociengel

Incredible... It will complete almost two years from the original post of this top, and not only the problem is still not solved as we didnt hear a single word from Apple about this. Not even a satisfaction or a "we're looking into it".


Apple, you should care more about your costumers, specially now that the opensource community is growing fast, and your competitors are going with the flow, while on your side, you're still holding up to maintain it all under your big umbrella. Yes, you can do that and could survive with that, as long as you would be listening to your costummer's issues. But that doesn't seem lile the case, uh?


You better act quickly, or your costummers will move faster then you.

Mar 9, 2012 12:12 PM in response to mrbofus

No it doesn't. I was really hoping it would.


It is so annoying to be able to import a wonderful video via the Camera Connector Kit but when you try to import the very same video by way of iPhoto you get nothing. The iPad can obviously play these videos! 1080,960,720 at any frame rate, no problem. Just don't try to import again with iPhoto.


Come on Apple!

Mar 9, 2012 2:09 PM in response to Abstractart

I don't know if someone else has posted it yet but you can get your video back onto the iPad if you put it back onto an SD card and use the Camera Connector Kit. I had to put the files into the folder that my camera makes for itself (just putting the files on an empty SD didn't work for some reason), but it worked.


Once re-loaded I could only put them into albums (made with the new iPhoto for iPad app) that I created on the iPad, not ones that were imported over from iPhoto. At least it's something I guess...

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