iPhoto cant import video from iphone 4

Your a Mac person you could find out how to work it...PC is so much simpler this is why most people pick it

Grognard has it down right, this worked for me.

Step one: turn off and on your iPhone.
Step Two : launch iTunes and iPhoto
Step three : connect the iPhone to the computer

I followed the steps listed above and was able to import my new photos and movies.

I was having problems with this. It seemed like the videos that were larger in size (read: longer) used up too much memory and the transfer process couldn't handle it. Rebooting the phone simply gave the phone more memory to work with, as did closing out applications (larger videos would be able to be downloaded to a point).

However! I just tried downloading the remaining (quite large) videos with IOS 4.0.1 installed and it worked! I'm guessing the guys at apple read this thread and fixed it. Thanks Apple!

This totally works. Not sure why, but it does.

The solution worked for me as well.
Restart iPhone
Open iTunes
Open iPhoto
Connect iPhone

well, I am beyond screwed at this point. Somehow both my iphoto and itunes libraries got corrupted and I have had to rebuild both. The performance of the iMac is ridiculous now and I believe I have something bigger going on, whether it was caused by the iPhone is something I don't know I just know all the problems started around the iPhone started freaking out.

I have just done an archive and install on Snow Leopard and that didn't work, so I am headed into a full rebuild.

REALLY FRUSTRATED

Greetings,

It should work just fine with iPhoto, but if not you can download PhoneView, and your Mac will show the phone as a disk.

It's cheap, and really handy.

Cheers,
M.
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I wonder if there's an issue with larger filesizes. I've successfully transferred several shorter videos (< 5 min.), but I recorded one video lasting 20:37 that I simply could not transfer to my Mac using iPhoto or Image Capture. I tried rebooting my Mac, rebooting my iPhone, upgrading iOS to 4.0.1, and nothing worked.

I spent about two hours (spread across 3 phone calls) with Apple Support, and eventually the solution was to copy the 1.5 GB video to a PC running Ubuntu 10.04, which did so flawlessly in about 3-4 minutes. I assume a PC running Windows would be able to do the same thing, assuming you can see the iPhone's filesystem in Windows Explorer.

I never thought to try Doubletwist or any other apps on my Mac, perhaps one of those could work as well. Ideally, I'd be able to browse the phone's filesystem from my Mac the same way I can in other operating systems. I understand that that would confuse some people and obviate Apple's desire to have you sync with specific apps. In my opinion, ease of syncing is one area in which the iPhone outshines Android, but obviously there are a few bugs left to be worked out.

Have any of you successfully transferred large HD videos to your Macs using iPhoto? How long were they?

I have the same problem. Nothing seems to work, including a hard reset.
I am a self professed Fanboy and used the 3G for 2 years without problems. But Apple has really not tested the iPhone 4 enough and released a bad design.
Apple get your act together and release a fix !!

I have closed every app, rebooted both my phone and iMac, only started image capture on reboot and still can not get my videos off of my iPhone 4. So frustrating.

Did you import into iPhoto a video previously edited with the iMovie for iPhone 4 app? If so, as suggested before in this discussion, remove that video from you iPhoto library (and import it into iTunes for example); maybe that'll work. It did for me; I could import 4 movies of 5 seconds each before iPhoto gave up and showed an error message.

Quit iPhoto
Open Activity Monitor (Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor.app)
In the search window at the top right, search for PTPCamera
Click on PTPCamera in the list of results to highlight it
Click on Quit Process (the red stopsign icon in the upper left of Activity Monitor)
Choose “Quit”
If you don’t already see “Image Capture Extension” in the list, search for it in the search box. Click on “Image Capture Extension” in the list of results to highlight it
Choose “Quit”
Go to Macintosh HD > System > Library > Image Capture > Devices and open PTPCamera.app back up
Unplug and re-plug the iPhone 4. iPhoto should open, if you’ve set it to do so when a camera is plugged in. Otherwise, open it. You should see your media available for import from the iPhone 4 when you click on the iPhone 4 in the devices list.