How do I import my videos from my iPhone with photo stream enabled?

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How do I import my videos from my iPhone with photo stream enabled?

Before I enabled photostream, when I synced my iPhone with iTunes iPhoto would also open and ask me to Import my photos and videos I took on my iPhone. Now that I've enabled photostream I can see the photos instantly synced between the iPhone and the Mac; however, my iPhone is no longer visible now in the iPhoto pane and I cannot figure out a way to get the videos I took on the iPhone onto the Mac since photostream does not support videos.

What's up? Do I have to disable photostream to move videos from the iPhone to the Mac?

thx

ed

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Nov 13, 2011 7:39 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 13, 2011 8:04 PM in response to Edward Lovelace

Eh, nevermind. I figured it out. Apparently video sync does not work with the new wireless iTunes sync between Macs and iPhones; only photos are synced. So I just needed to actually hardwire plug my iPhone into my Mac.

Apple - could have used some better Help guidance on this!

thx

ed

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Answer 2

darrM

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Nov 16, 2011 8:28 PM in response to Edward Lovelace

Hi ED , I am in the same boat , I have tried everything but when I connect my iphone to the Mac by USB it goes through the sync process as usual except Iphoto. It does not show up as a device in Iphoto and therefor the videos are not recognized.

Everything else is syncing properly , pctures are displaying on all my devices ( ipad2, iphone4, Mac intel) so I can't figure out how to handle the videos. There is one message that comes up when I open itunes, it says "videos are unchecked and no videos will be displayed" (something like that) maybe this is a problem but I can't see where to change this setting.

thaks

Darren

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Answer 3

Twins05

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Nov 27, 2011 8:39 PM in response to darrM

I am having the same issue...in iPhoto I disabled the Photostream sync and when I plugged in my iPhone it sync'd like it used to before Photostream. I was able to import the videos and remove them from my iPhone. I would like to use Photostream on my Mac so this is a half baked solution.

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