iPad 2 iMovie

While I understand your POV regarding hordes of angry people after Apple if their video (from other sources) caused iMovie to crash, or sputter... but I don't really buy it - either a digital file is formatted a certain way, or it is not - a .jpg by any other name is a .jpg (and would look as sweet) I guess what I find irksome is that in the marketing - the shots shown for the advertising look to be of a higher quality than I have yet achieved using my ipad 2 camera - I would venture a guess that their ad campain uses video sourced from other devices...

..still I haven't given up hope - I am sure there will a way to do it - just haven't found it yet.

I just imported some videos from 2 different cameras using the camera connection kit. Videos from my Nikon D300s were in AVI format and I could view them on the iPad and also import them into iMovie.

Then I plugged in the SD card from my Olympus Stylus tough. I imported 10 videos, all play on the Ipad, but only 3 of them I could use in iMovie. The other ones were marked with an exclamation point.

It looks like most of my clips work.

that is good to know.. i wonder what codec those .avi files are encoded with.. also what kind of files were the ones from Olympus?

this is getting more and more interesting.. thanks for testing that out.. i may convert one of mine to avi to test..

As far as getting the files on/off the iPad/2 this article is great:

http://www.ismashphone.com/2011/03/imovie-for-ipad-users-having-trouble-importin g-video--3.html

This works fine for movies shot on ipad/iphon, but I still haven't found a video converter for my PC that will make my old videos show up in iMovie. I tried on that converted to .MOV, but the video still wouldn't show up. I'll update this if I find one....There has to be a way!!

I am starting to believe that those iMovie importing issues are only happening on the Ipad 2. I am running iMovie on an iPad 1, which doesn't even have a "Camera Roll". iMovie is looking in ALL photo/video folders instead. As a result, almost all my videos can be imported to iMovie.

This is quite funny, given the fact that iMovie is not even supported on the iPad 1.

now that is interesting.. what kind of camera do you use? do you have access to an ipad 2 to test your video clips? if not maybe you could record a quick 5 second video and send it to me so i can test on ipad 2..

marcbyron wrote:
I am starting to believe that those iMovie importing issues are only happening on the Ipad 2. I am running iMovie on an iPad 1, which doesn't even have a "Camera Roll". iMovie is looking in ALL photo/video folders instead. As a result, almost all my videos can be imported to iMovie.

This is quite funny, given the fact that iMovie is not even supported on the iPad 1.

is it paranoid to think maybe +that's why+ iMovie isn't supported on iPad1?

OK, after hours of working it out, I think I have a solution, at least its working for me.
1. Download Aleesoft Free iPad Video Converter.
2. Open up the program and select new task.
3. Open up the video you want iMovies to "see"
4. Select "iPad HD Video (*.mp4)" then click options.
5. On the audio tab, the following should be selected:
-Double Channel
-aac
-44100 sampling rate
-128 bit rate
6. On the video tab, the following should be selected:
-h264 video codec
-30 frame rate
-2500 bit rate
7. On the resize tab, select the custom size and make it 1280X720, aspect ratio normal
8. Click save and apply.
9. Then pick your destination folder and select "Convert"
10. Once its done, put that video into any of your "Photo" folders that syncs with iTunes and you should be able to see the video in iMovie.

Good Luck.

You may be on to something. I'm gonna try this with an mp4 I converted from the mpg file output from my canon vixia hd camcorder and see if by placing it in a synced photo folder it copies it to my photo roll on iPad 2. I

Zwiller5! I think I am 90% of the way there - I took your advise and got all the way to #10 on your list - but when I sync'd the files (they look great after the conversion!) - they landed in the "movies" folder on my ipad 2 - Just like my coppies of "nightmare Before Christmas" and "Despicable Me"... and like those films - iMovie doesn't let me import them - it is like they are categorized as purchased films - which they would never let me edit.. Maybe I am putting them in the wrong place, or syncing them incorrectly... They play fine on the ipad though... I just can't figure how to get imovie to "see" them.

I think we can all agree the cameras on the iPad are great for FaceTime but we'd prefer to use iMovie to edit hd home movies shot on our higher end video cameras and post directly to YouTube/Facebook conveniently from iPad.

I agree - the ipad screen and the touch interface seems like a great way to male use of our other HD video devices - I mean the cameras on the ipad are great for facetime and such - but to walk around with my ipad trying to record anything more than record shots and impromptu moments seem a tad bit unweildy.... Just gotta figure out how to get my converted movies to the camera roll instead of the "movies" folder...

I tried zwillers suggestion and now have the video in my photo folder on iPad but it still won't show up in iMovie. No luck. It is not in the camera roll and I have no idea how to get it there.

Actually I used handbrake to make the mp4 so I maybe i need to change the settings

I used the program suggested by zwiller5 and it plays fine on my ipad 2 - it just got sync'd to the movies folder instead of the camera roll and I can't import it into imovie