I am giving my 12 year old a starter camcorder. I know nothing about the editing or storing of videos. She will have access to the family 16GB iPad Air 2 to edit her videos. I know that videos eat up a lot of storage space. What are the storage options for videos created in iOS 10 or 11? Can they simply be exported to an external SSD, for example? Suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance.
iPad Air 2 Wi-Fi, iOS 10.3.3
Hi. iOS apps, including video editors, can only process files in local storage on the device. You can get Lightning memory sticks and WiFi disk drives for external storage, but they can only be used for file transfer. Would you consider a budget Windows PC for this?
Hi. iOS apps, including video editors, can only process files in local storage on the device. You can get Lightning memory sticks and WiFi disk drives for external storage, but they can only be used for file transfer. Would you consider a budget Windows PC for this?
Thanks for your response. Well, we're a Mac-only household. We don't want her videos clogging up our laptops so I want to know if she can simply store her edited videos on an external drive and then play them on her iPad when she wants to.
Yes, you can get drives that connect to the iPad by WiFi. You can copy videos to them. They come with apps that should allow playing videos direct from the drive. But editing on the drive will not be possible. This is constraint of the iOS design, which recognizes only the filesystem on the local storage. This differs from a computer which can attach multiple drives, and treat them all equally.
Well, that would work. I am not concerned about her editing the videos on the external drives, only about storing them.
I've not heard wifi drives. I'll start doing some research on them. Thanks for your time.
This link: Re: how do i get movies on an external hard to play on an ipad pro? has some suggestions to get started with.
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