Q: Can no longer import videos using iPad camera kit
I hope that someone can either solve this or help me bring it to Apple's attention. It's a niche problem, but an important one to me.
I used to use my iPad Air to import and edit (using the camera kit, not the SD card reader but the USB cable one) videos for quick edits on the go. They recently brought back the ability to send mobile iMovie projects from iPad to Mac, which I am in love with.
Beginning in iOS 8 and continuing to iOS 9.3, the camera kit can no longer import videos longer than a few seconds, in fact it causes the camera to crash. I thought maybe it was a power issue, but I used a powered USB hub and it did the same thing. It seems to crash on clips longer than 10-15 seconds, or over 100mb in size. anything less than that imports fine. I thought also it might just be me, but I happen to know of some other people who had the same thing happen.
I would think it was Sony's problem, but on the camera side everything has remained the same, I am shooting in XAVC-s mode which gives me .mp4 files.
I know that this is maybe not what Apple had in mind when they designed the iPad and camera kit, but it worked so well I would really like to have this ability back.
iPad Air, iOS 9.3.1
Posted on May 11, 2016 8:55 PM