slow motion lost after sync from mac to iphone

Hi,


I can capture videos in slow motion but those videos play at normal speed once Sync them via iTunes.


1. Capture videos in slow motion.

2. The videos first play in slow motion in the iPhone. There is a time line slider to move the slo-mo effect back and forth.

3. I do a back-up via iTunes including videos.

4. After syncing, the videos in the iPhone appear in one album called "Slo-Mo".

5. In the thumbnail of the video clip I can see the small dial icon that all other slow motion videos have.

6. Playing the video shows a normal speed clip without the timeline slider under the video frames view.


The videos DO retain the slo-mo "effect" in Aperture and iPhoto also. Not in the iPhone after syncing.


Any hints to solve this? thanks


jp



iPhone 6 iOS8

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Sep 29, 2014 3:57 AM

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Oct 23, 2015 7:31 AM in response to jpac

Same issue. I have El Capitan 10.11 and iOS 9.1 on my iPhone 6+ and this issue is still going on. It's pathetic. The work-around to airdrop from Mac to phone or pad doesn't work for me as they never seem to be recognized by my Macbook Pro and even though I've called Apple Support about that little problem it was never resolved so I cannot air drop. I also cannot email videos because of their size so that work-around is also out. I do wish Apple would correct this problem for it seems to me fairly useless to advertise slow motion video on the phone if it isn't something that is truly properly supported. What is the point of having that nice little folder marked "slo-mo" in the photo app if it doesn't work?

Oct 23, 2015 7:49 AM in response to jpac

Okay, sorry but I was not able to edit my last post for some reason. Here is the latest:


I am, after all, able to email the video to myself (although I have to use Mail Drop to do so) and this works great.


To be more detailed for others reading this - within my Macbook Pro I opened the Mail app and dragged the slo-mo video into a letter addressed to myself. The message pops up telling me the video is too large and would I like to use Mail Drop? I chose "yes" and then it automatically mails you the video. Open this email in your phone and tap to download then, after the video appears on your screen, tap the screen to bring up the icons and chose the "share" icon at the bottom left then choose "save video". You can now open this in your photos app it will be in the Camera Roll - not the Slo Mo folder.


Please Apple, get this fixed.

Oct 23, 2015 8:24 AM in response to jpac

I spoke with an AppleCare rep last week about this issue. She stated this is a known error and would be fixed the next update. Seeing that 9.1 didn't fix it, maybe a future El Capitan update will.


She could/would not specify if it was an iOS issue or an OS X issue. It sounded like a canned response for "we have no clue why this is happening".


This issue is keeping me from clean installing (from scratch) my iPhone. I don't want to lose the slow-mo view ability on the videos/photos that I sync back onto my clean phone.



I recommend everyone calling AppleCare and getting a case number for this issue. Maybe multiple calls will light a fire in them to fix it

Oct 24, 2015 9:07 AM in response to jpac

I just called AppleCare again too this morning and spoke with a "Senior Advisor," who basically told me they are aware that it isn't working correctly, but couldn't give me a straight answer on whether or not they were working on fixing it.


As one of the richest companies in the world, I can't understand why this is so hard to fix. Makes me really hate them and their products. False advertisement and very sloppy product releases should not be an issue when I'm paying so much for their products.


I highly recommend everyone having this problem call and bombard AppleCare, and let them know how unhappy we are and this needs to be fixed ASAP.

Nov 10, 2015 12:34 PM in response to jpac

Okay apple community team, sorry if someone else threw this answer up and I missed it. Here's your solution:


1. e-mail your slo-mo video from iPhone to your "Mail" app e-mail (the default postage stamp icon for mail).

2. Right-click on the video once loaded in e-mail and select "Save to Downloads Folder"

3. Open iMovie, from "File" mouse over "Import" and take the "Movies..." option.

4. Select the file from your "Downloads" folder.

5. Enjoy watching/editing your slo-mo video.


**First help forum post ever. I google'd the problem you all were having because it was my headache too for a bit. Hope this helps!


Best,

Josh

Nov 10, 2015 6:37 PM in response to joshkristoff

joshkristoff wrote:


Okay apple community team, sorry if someone else threw this answer up and I missed it. Here's your solution:


1. e-mail your slo-mo video from iPhone to your "Mail" app e-mail (the default postage stamp icon for mail).

2. Right-click on the video once loaded in e-mail and select "Save to Downloads Folder"

3. Open iMovie, from "File" mouse over "Import" and take the "Movies..." option.

4. Select the file from your "Downloads" folder.

5. Enjoy watching/editing your slo-mo video.


**First help forum post ever. I google'd the problem you all were having because it was my headache too for a bit. Hope this helps!


Best,

Josh

My understanding is that the issue is not in getting the slo-mo video from the iPhone to the Mac, but the other way around, hence the thread's title: "slow motion lost after sync from mac to iphone" (emphasis mine).


If you take a slo-mo video on your phone, transferring it to your computer and watching/editing it there is no problem. The problem is that when you sync the video back to your phone, the slow motion part is lost. The phone still recognizes it as slo-mo and puts it in the "Slo-mo" album in the Photos app on the phone. But when you try to play the video, there is no slow motion.


The phone shot the video in slo-mo and originally plays it as such, the computer it transferred to recognizes and plays it as slo-mo, and when you sync it back, the phone recognizes it as slo-mo, but does not play it as such; THAT is the problem.

Dec 22, 2015 9:03 AM in response to jpac

I spoke to AppleCare again last week (since the last "Senior iOS Support Advisor" never got back to me), and they took down my information again and are supposedly going to submit another ticket to their engineers about the problem.


The support rep I spoke with even recreated the problem with his own Mac and iPhone 6 and called me back a few minutes later to let me know it happened with his equipment as well, so it's definitely a software issue on Apple's end that needs to be fixed.

Jan 18, 2016 9:04 AM in response to Darwood77

Hi Darwood, I agree with you, however if you require videos to be slow mo after exporting videos or importing, follow this steps:


1) Edit the video after recording on iMovie, and save afterwards as new. See link:


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


2) Download the app (Slo Mo Video) and this can do slow mo on creating new videos and editing pre-existing videos by altering the fps.


Hope this helps everyone.


I really do hope Apple finds a fix.

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