iPad Camera Connection Kit and Movies

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC531ZM/A

The iPad Camera Connection Kit gives you two ways to import photos and videos from a digital camera: using your camera’s USB cable or directly from an SD card. iPad and the Camera Connection Kit support standard photo formats, including JPEG and RAW, along with SD and HD video formats, including H.264 and MPEG-4.

The camer connection kit only copies photos and videso into the Photos app on the iPad - you can't copy content off the iPad with it.

I have in the past (pre-iOS 5) copied an MP4 film via an SD card with the kit and been able to play it, but a film bought from iTunes didn't play (you can't copy content to the Videos app via the kit, and I assume that still aplies with iOS 5). Also the kit only recognises content that is in a particular format - the card has to have a DCIM directory off its root, with the photos/videos underneath it with filenames exactly 8 characters long (no spaces) plus file extension.

The CCK is a one way transfer only. And, I don't believe it supports video at all, jpeg only. There are a couple of hard drives that will allow you to stream content off them. Take a look at this link:

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Satellite-Wireless-External-STBF500101/dp/B004Z0S7 K6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1328466550&sr=8-3

You can use a USB flash drive & the camera connection kit.

Plug the USB flash drive into your computer & create a new folder titled DCIM. Then put your movie/photo files into the folder. The files must have a filename with exactly 8 characters long (no spaces) plus the file extension (i.e., my-movie.mov).

Now plug the flash drive into the iPad using the camera connection kit. Open the Photos app, the movie/photo files should appear & you can import.

 Cheers, Tom 😉

I have tried this using a 32gb flash drive with my ipad mini-I'm trying to be able to copy HD TV shows from itunes onto my ipad. I've renamed them all with the proper file names and put them into the dim folder. But when I plug it into my ipad, it says that the media device is not supported. Is there a certain format the drive has to be in or something else that I do not know about?

OSX 10.8.2

iOS 6.1

A lot of flash drives require more power than is supplied to the kit. Also whilst you should be able to copy iTUnes purchased films and tv shows over to the iPad's Photos app, they won't play there - they will only play in the Videos apps, so you either need to download them via the iTunes store app on your iPad or sync them via your computer's iTunes.

wiSnowleopard wrote:

do you know of any way to convert videos purchased off itunes (without losing quality) into a format that will play in the photos app?

Why do you need to convert them? Video purchased from the iTunes Store will play on your iPad using the Video app without conversion.

THere are now devices available for purchace called i-flashdrives. They are a flashdrive with a lightening jack and depending on the make, a USB on the other. When you use one of these, you use their app to transfer files between the stick and the drive.

I just downloaded a few manufacturer's apps and tried it with my connectivity kit amd no dice. It says "Device not found."

IF would be really cool if someone could design an app to do whis with the CCK. It's apparent that the technology is there. I guess that these apps are tied to their own hardware.

These WiFi style flash drives only transfer data back and forth via WiFi, not using the iDevice's connection port.

But none of these WiFi style drives will work for streaming digital rights protected movies from the drive, itself.

You can store the movies there, but you would still need to transfer them back to your iPad one at a time to view them.

For images and documents, if you store these on a Wifi style portable drive of WiFi USB flash type drive, you can view these images and documents from the drive without importing them directly from the iPad.

The drive manufacturers app will let you view images and docs from the drive, itself, without having to transfer them to the iPad.

Then why are there lightening connectors on them?

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_n_size_browse-bin_6?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A1722 82%2Cn%3A541966%2Cn%3A1292110011%2Cn%3A3151491%2Ck%3Aiflashdrive+hd%2Cp_n_size_b rowse-bin%3A10285018011&keywords=iflashdrive+hd&ie=UTF8&qid=1455101091

If they are wireless, portable devices, they have rechargeable batteries in them as well as a wired power connection.

The lightning connector is for charging the device's battery from a standard 10 or 12 Volt charger.

I believe the Camera Connection Kit is for importing only, not for transferring from the iPad to a camera or to a camera's storage card.