iPad Camera Connection Kit and Movies

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

I need to convert them so they will work with the camera connection kit: I only have a 16gb iPad.

You can't convert them. If you can't store them on the iPad then there are some wifi-enabled drives that allow you to stream content to the iPad e.g. GoFlex Satellite

Look at the Kingston WiDrive. Can be had for pretty cheap. It's very portable.