How do I best transfer long film taken with iPad camera to desktop and/or cloud for editing?

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How do I best transfer long film taken with iPad camera to desktop and/or cloud for editing?

Hi - I've taken long film (1 hour plus) using my iPad and iPhone. I now want to edit them using Final Cut Pro on a mac desktop. How can I transfer them in one piece? The cloud photo sharing only permits it to transfer, even connected by cable, in small chunks - and there are NO timeframes on the chunks, so I can't tell if I have the exact start and finish flush with the previous section or not - it's really clunky and risks losing parts or duplication - and will take a very long time to cut and transfer in such small chunks. I can leave it running for hours. I can't sit and manually chop into sections, blind, without time markers. Any options?

iPad3-OTHER, Other OS, iPad3 compatibility issues

Posted on May 2, 2015 12:17 PM

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Tom Wolsky

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May 2, 2015 1:09 PM in response to perssons

I Don't understand what iCloud sharing has to do with this. You connect the device to the computer and use the import function in FCP. You import directly from the device to the computer through FCP.

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May 2, 2015 2:17 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thanks but perhaps it's a compatibility issue then instead? I don't see the hardware (iPhone or iPad) when using the import function. iPhone 5S and iPad 2 both on iOS 8.3. MacPro early 2008 10.75. Trying FCE and iMovie also without success. (???)

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Tom Wolsky

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May 2, 2015 2:29 PM in response to perssons

FFCE cannot do this. What versions of iMovie and FCP are you using? Are you using OS 10.7.5?

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May 2, 2015 3:25 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

iMac runs OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)

iMovie v 6.0.3 (267.2)

Final Cut Express (apologies, my mistake not pro) 4.0.1

iTunes detects the iPad and iPhone.

But the hard disk tree / finder function does not.

Thanks for the support. At least now appears probable age compatibility not my user error. I had wrongly figured it was not expected to be able to do a direct import, however odd it seemed, thus was using iCloud as workaround. Have shut down and restarted, and checked all the USB ports. No change. Upgrade either s/w? Or any other suggestion welcome.

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Tom Wolsky

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May 2, 2015 4:27 PM in response to perssons

None of those applications will do this. You might be able to do it with Image Capture or maybe with iPhoto. I don't remember that OS's capabilities. You night try the question on the format for that operating system.

No, the Finder never sees those devices. They can't be mounted and accessed from the Finder.

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Meg The Dog

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May 2, 2015 4:59 PM in response to perssons

If I remember correctly, as Mr. Wolsey has said, you need to connect your device to your computer and transfer the video file(s) from your device to the computer via iPhoto. Once the file(s) is/are in iPhoto, you then select the files in iPhoto and export them for use in your editor. Preferably to an external hard disk. Once there, you open your editor of choice and import those files.

I seem to recall that the export process from iPhoto allows you to transcode the file into an edit friendly format, if so and you should choose the option to convert the video to Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC) for editing in either iMovie or FCE.

If it does not, you'll need to get an app that can covert them to an edit friendly format, such as MPEG Streamclip.

MtD

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May 4, 2015 2:27 AM in response to Meg The Dog

If I may suggest, don't use iPhoto. Use Image Capture instead.

Using iPhoto will add these files to your iPhoto library and store them somewhere hidden in your file system, not ideal if you just want to edit them with FCE.

With Image Capture you can designate a folder to store those files and proceed from there.

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