iPad 2 iMovie

Has anyone found a way to import directly into iMovie using the camera connection kit? I understand people have found a way to convert them on a different computer then put them on the iPad. But if I already have it on my MacBook I might as well edit with iMovie on it....

My Flip Mino Hd camera works with the camera connection kit and iMovie.

Mr. Brewer, you are saying that you plug your Flip Mino HD into the USB adapte of the camera connection kit import it and iMovie recognizes the resulting video? You are the first and only person I've heard that this works. Mine does not.

UPDATE: I am mistaken. Mine does work. I could have sworn that I tried it soon after getting my iPad 2, but today I just attempted it again and it works.

Message was edited by: kpurcell

Correct... Ever since iOS 4.2.1 (now iOS 4.3) I have been able the use the camera connection kit to import videos from my Flip Mino HD camera into the iPad. Now that I have the iPad 2 I can do the same and also import the videos into iMovie. On the iPad 1 I use ReelDirector for editing.

I can also use a thumb drive or SD card to import the Flip Videos into both iPads. iTunes will not allow these videos to be imported into the iPad, more than likely because iTunes has strict guild lines when it comes to videos on the iPad.

Sounds awesome! I have a kodak zi8, it is almost the same with the flip camera. Do you think the video importing will work on the first generation ipad? only the normal 720p resolution, or will the 60fps, maybe the fullhd? Does anyone have experiance with the kodak zi8?

Ok, I understand the idea of importing a movie on your laptop/desktop to convert it so your iPad can read the movie. But honestly why would you want to go through all of this trouble? I [perhaps my fault] honestly thought iMovie for iPad would be a simple light video editor.
I bought the camera connection kit for my wife along with her iPad 2 and like a lot of other people, the video shows up in camera roll, but iMovie will not see it. Nor do I want to send it to my PowerMac G5 or MacBook Pro just to convert it when I have iMovie on both of those machines.
Should be able, like others have said, to import your camera movies, have iMovie recognize the movies and then light edit the movie and either email them, facebook or youtube with having to convert on a laptop\desktop and then back to the iPad. Hopefully Apple will address this in the near future. Otherwise, right now, I feel the camera connection kit and iMovie really was a waste of money.

Ok here goes what i have found out to help me. This might seem backwards but its the only way i could find to get this thing to work. Here is the big secret, Use iPhoto!

Open iPhoto, drop the videos you want to use in iMovie on the iPad into the main library of iPhoto,
then Go to iTunes
Then iPad
Photos Section sync all photos using iPhoto option
Sync
Then if you go into iMovie (make sure you restart the iMovie app so it can update)
And you will have all the video from iPhoto in there to do with what you please.

Hope his helps

Best
Brad

Correct... Ever since iOS 4.2.1 (now iOS 4.3) I have been able the use the camera connection kit to import videos from my Flip Mino HD camera into the iPad. Now that I have the iPad 2 I can do the same and also import the videos into iMovie.

What resolution are these videos?

720p

The video is recorded at the bitrates which the iPad can use.
I have a Kodak Playsport and the only video that works directly on the iPad is VGA because the 720 and 1080 modes have too high of a bitrate.

Average Bitrate 8.8 Mbps

Are you recording in 60 fps? Also the Kodak camera could be using a noncompliance profile/level setting.

Message was edited by: David M Brewer

Tried 30 and 60.
They will transfer to the iPad with CCK but simply a grey icon with a camera in iPhoto shows up.

The gray icon means not supported.

The Kodak camera may be using a non-standard Mpeg-4 h.264 codec. Consumer camera companies do this all the time so they don't have to pay the licensing fees for Mpeg-4 h.264 codec.

The bad thing about using h.264 for editing is... H.264 isn't an editing codec it is meant for delivery only.

Apple has always used the standard h.264 codec. I would guess if the video doesn't meet this standard the iPad and iMovie won't accept it.

Best bet is to find a camera that works with the iPad and iMovie instead of trying to make a video that doesn't work... work on the iPad. And there no reason to convert the video on a desktop computer and then import it into the iPad for editing. Might just as well edit it on the desktop computer.

Find a video camera that works!

for anyone looking to do this on a Mac, use MPEG Streamclip which is free and follow Zwiller5's criteria. It works perfectly.

A weird thing I have encountered is that sometimes you have to exit the iphoto application before syncing your ipad.

thanks, this forum helped me finally get the correct settings. Only took me an entire saturday though, hopefully someone else can save some time