iPhoto cant import video from iphone 4

After struggling for too many hours, rebooting, starting programs, stopping programs, I decide to try Windows.

What always works is the following:

- install a windows virtual machine

- connect the iPhone

- copy the files to a shared folder

- movies and photos are available on the Mac.

Good luck!

Learco Brizzi

Take a deep breath.

Take 2 minutes to read and apply the following.

Problem solved.

imfmosca wrote:

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.

I too am having the same issues but what I have found is that if you use the USB directly on the

mac and not thought a Hub or keyboard it seems to work.

I, too, was using a hub before trying a direct connection. Fixed the issue for me.

I tried Grognard's suggestion (see below) and it worked for me, however, I took some additional steps as well:

First:

Check for software updates on Mac and install/restart

Second: Grognards's Steps

Step one: turn off and on your iPhone.

Step Two : launch iTunes and iPhoto

Step three : connect the iPhone to the computer

Third: only select one video at a time and import the selected item.

Hope it works for you!

nope. i just tried it. didnt work. but this is a problem with the upgrade to lion right? because it always worked on snow leopard

In spite of my doubts, Grognard's solution worked perfectly for me as well. I did eliminate the hub, and connected directly to the computer. It pulled in 114 photos and videos flawlessly.

Hi, i have this weekend the same problem to import videos..... and i try all solutions on this site, but nothing helps!!

But i think i have a solution for this problem, and thats not a problem from apple.

i uninstall the flip4mac version and the problem is fixed. 🙂

I had the same problem with an iPod Touch and tried many suggestions with no success.

The video has 950 MB.

I connected the iPod to a different Mac with lots of free disk space, and successfuly transfered the video.

The previous machine had 2 GB available.

Thanks Grognard - just used your method and it worked like a charm!! I was beginning to get pretty frustrated!!

I faced the similar problem. I recorded some videos (30 - 45 mins) using iPad 2.

When I wanted to import those videos using iPhoto, a prompt popped out:

"iPhoto cannot import your photos because there was a problem downloading an image".

I was aware that my MacBook Pro has almost reached its storage capacity, only 2GB available. So, I suspected it was the culprit. I moved all my videos from iTunes U to external hard disk to increase the storage capacity of local hardisk to around 26GB. Then, I tried to import those videos again.

GUESS WHAT? It worked!!! 🙂

Hope this helps! All the best!

Finally worked it out - well for my problem with the same symptom anyway. I was connecting the iPhone4s via a USB Hub, it started to work again when I plugged the phone into the iMac directly. Can't believe it took 2hrs to work that out when it started to happen only after I connected it to the hub - sheesh!

Same Problem here. Nothing workes. Has Iphone 4s and the newest imac 27" 2011.