slow motion lost after sync from mac to iphone

Ok kids here is why you cant just play back your slow mo videos in iphoto or quicktime the way they play on the phone. The video is recorded at 240 FPS or 120 FPS when you import into iphoto the movie no longer has the meta data to slow it down like the camera app has on the iphone where you can select where the slow mo begins and ends, instead iphoto or quicktime just plays it back at its native FPS 240 or 120. If you want to preserve the slowmo settings you did on the iphone there are two easy ways to go.

1.

Use Apple’s free iMovie app on the iphone to first open the movie, edit it, and then save it as a new video, you don't really have to make any edits just saving a new copy does it. The new file will retain the slow motion, and can be viewed on your computer as such after you import the new copy. The new video now plays at 30 fps with the slowed down part intact. I guess the meta data is shared from iphone camera roll app to imovie app and then the new video is created with some behind the scenes conforming, interloping, trickery going on. It's magic 🙂

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-create-slo-mo-video-on-an-iphone-6-an d-6-plus/

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Record your slow mo movie into a new feature in Yosemite that allows you to record what ever is going on on your iphone screen into a quicktime movie on your mac in real time.

Plug in your iphone to your mac, launch quicktime and there is a new option to record your iphone screen, below is a link on how to do it. It is the same as recording a screen capture video in quicktime but its capturing your iphones screen and re recording the video at a steady 30fps as your iphone does the regular to slow to regular frame rate transition. Great for recording games too into movies off your iphone and many other uses.

And as mentioned before you can email the video to yourself if it's not too big and upload to youtube and the slow mo stays intact because the video is again converted into a new video.

http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/record-iphone-screen-quicktime/

If you use FCPX you can import the video and it will be a 60 fps video as FCPX does not have a sequence setting of 240 or 120 but it does stay the same length at 60fps.

You can then slow the footage down with the retiming function and then export it but it wont have that ramp down and ramp up unless

you do some tinkering and editing using the retime to 0 option etc. This method you are creating the speed change from scratch though.

But it will be exactly where you want it to happen.

Most likely you can do this in the mac imovie app as well but I don't use it.

Hope this helps.

Let's be clear, this is not a "sync" issue or a bug, The videos sync just fine, the point is the video players quicktime and iPhoto don't retain the metadata to slow down the videos frame rate and speed it back up again. Apple will have to release a new version of iPhoto to be able to do what you want so it plays the same way on your Mac that it does on the iphone after syncing, but you can only play them on a mac or PC not on a TV. They could add a feature upon import

"retain slow motion effect when importing videos" most likely it would do the same thing the iMovie app does and convert it to 30fps.

The frame rate slows down and speeds back up, that is not how videos have ever worked in the past, They are recorded and play back at one frame rate 30fps 24fps etc.

You can't airplay the slow motion videos either from your iphone or from your mac to a tv. They will play at the recorded 240fps, TVs only support 30fps, a few 4k TVs can display 60 fps. The point is is that unless the video is converted or re recorded they won't play on a tv or with Apple TV. Apple did a cool thing to have the video slow down and that's because computers can play high speed frame rates but TVs cannot.

It's more of a novelty and the only way to preserve it at the moment is to do one of the above methods beause they make a new video at 30fps that can then be played on a TV. So the iMovie app is really the best way to go At the moment.

This is my first-ever post to the Apple forums, so you know I'm royally p-ssed if I'm posting here.

Anyhoo...I've (we've) been dealing with this nonsense for nearly 4 months now. That's 1/3 of the life of the freaking phone.

WHERE'S THE FIX? 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2? Now 8.1.3 is supposed to come out, with possibly 8.2?

JUST FIX IT!

It's ridiculous.

The videos play FINE on my Mac. You sync them to the proper folder (Because Apple FORCED me to make and organize "events" when I got my iPhone), and they don't work? B.S.!!!!!

I'm not doing a "work around". I'm not putting them in the wrong folder for no reason. I'm not doing a "screen capture with a flux capacitor at 88mph, while stroking my cat's butt and singing the theme song to Bonanza".

All they have to do is FIX THE CODE that says, "PLAY IN SLOW MOTION WHEN IT WAS RECORDED IN SLOW MOTION".

What's the freakin' problem?

Same problem here.

lost slow mo after iPhoto sync.

Anybody else still having this issue like me?

Running 8.2

iCloud Photo Library is still beta and the Photos app for a Mac running Yosemite has not yet been released. You can use Airdrop as discussed in the following:iCloud Photo Library beta FAQ - Apple Support

If you want to transfer the photos via iTunes you would need to not use iCloud Photo Library beta.

Another option might be a 3rd party app such as http://www.photosync-apple.com

I'm now running 10.10.3 and the new Yosemite Photos.app

Slo Motion video now plays within Photos, but when I use iTunes to sync it back to my iPhone 6, all the slow motion aspects are lost just as it was when syncing with iPhoto.

Has anyone had success getting a slo motion video to play once it has left the camera roll...

Same issue here. I was hoping the the new Photos app would fix this issue. But no. The old slo-mo videos when synced back to the iPhone still loose there slomosness 😠

You mentioned that "old" slo-motion movies didn't work; I haven't yet had a chance to try a newly taken movie that is sync'ed initially between iTunes 12.1.2 and Photos.app.

Have you had any luck with slo motion aspects being retained for newly taken videos?

FYI...newly taken slo-mo videos also do not sync w/o losing the slow motion. It seems the only way to keep slow motion on your phone is from within Camera Roll.

Whoever's job it is at Apple to make this work the way it should but fails to do so...YOU SUCK! If it hasn't been mentioned, you can backup into your chosen program (I use iPhoto) and drag the slow mo videos to a folder, select all and share via airdrop and the slow mo will be retained. Yes it is an easy workaround but the fact this needs to be done after multiple OS and iOS updates is crap

Okay....I've doubled checked, using Photos for Mac with the latest OSX and iOS 8.3....NOTHING. I've scheduled a call for tomorrow with Apple.

I have ONE more idea, though: What about the cloud? I'm syncing from my Mac to my phone and am NOT using the new cloud photos app....wait...I just realized as I was typing that the cloud doesn't support video.

Am I now to wait until the cloud supports video to have to THEN reorganize my entire library in the cloud....JUST to see if slow-mo works? I've kinda had it up to here, already. While I don't necessarily need to show anyone my slow motion videos...and they're still accessible on the Mac....I find it kinda messed up that the only to way to watch them is to put them back into the camera roll--the very place you DON'T want your photos. The aforementioned, however, is how I came to realizing that the cloud might work....but I'm not 100% familiar with how Apple handles videos in the temporary (photo stream) or permanent (iCloud) clouds.

SOOOOOO frustrating!

Same issue here on iPhone 6 with latest iOS and OSX Yosemite for Mac and Photos for Mac... what garbage.