Does anyone know how to easily and intuitively share video from a macbook to an iPhone? You would think this would be as easy as dragging and dropping. You'd be wrong. Airdrop isn't working at all. I get an error message on my phone: "Failed to save item. Save to iCloud Drive instead?" I switched from PC to Apple to avoid precisely this: waisting my time troubling devices.
How about if you connect them via USB?
I've been doing some research. It seems that the geniuses at Apple created a system where we can't upload .mov files from Mac to iPhone, even though we can create and share from .mov files from iPhone. So we need to convert .mov files to mp4 in order to share from Mac to iPhone?
Yep. Doesn't help at all. There's some glitch in some recent update. I still can't Airdrop a video I made on my Mac using iMovie to my iPhone. Looks like they're not talking to each other. Glitch message reads as follows: "Failed to save item. Save to iCloud Drive instead?" When I tap yes, I get some corrupted file that I can't open on my phone.
Okay. Figured it out.
The new iMovie update includes ProRes on computers/notebooks. This level of quality uses a codex that cannot be read on iOS devices. There are two ways to create videos that can be shared to iOS devices:
1 - use HIGH (not Best - ProRes) quality when saving/creating/shareing the iMovie video file to the desktop. This will create an MP4 file which works just fine on iOS devices.
2 - Create that Highest - ProRes file for use with other apps or for uploading onto Youtube etc.
When the file is on the desktop, right click.
Select > encode selected video files (near the bottom)
Select > 480, 720, 1080 (**NOT Apple ProRes***).
That creates a .m4v file which also works just fine on iOS devices.
I tried that too because that's how it usually worked in the past. But to no avail.
Good work... it's too late to get off the Toboggan!
Great work, thanks for the report! :)
Airdrop fails to share video from Macbookair to iPhone.
