Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now.
On today's episode let me show you how to put your videos on your iPad or iPhone.
I get this question pretty often.
How do I put videos that I've taken onto my iPad and iPhone?
The answer is pretty much the same way you would put photos or music on your iPad or
iPhone using iTunes on your Mac.
But there is one little tricky part and some people get stuck with it.
So here we are in iTunes.
In iTunes we can switch and look at the videos that we have in our iTunes collection just
like we there is Music here.
It is important that you get the video first into iTunes before trying to put it on your
iOS device.
We switch iTunes 11 to Movies here and see we don't really have anything.
We actually have some in different categories.
We can look at like regular Movies, we can look by Genres, we can look at Listwe can
go to Home Videos.
Anything you are going to put on here from a camcorder or something you've recorded is
going to appear under Home Videos.
To make things a little easier let's go to View/Show Sidebar so we can see everything
we have going on in iTunes in the left sidebar.
Now that we have the left sidebar we can click on Movies here and see under Home Videos that
we don't have anything.
So we want to get this video that we want to put onto our iPad in this case.
I'm going to the movie ducks.mov.
I'm going to just drag and drop.
I can drop it in here since I have Movies selected or I can drop it into my library
here.
Either way it's going to end up appearing here and I can see it now as part of my iTunes
collection.
I can test it out by playing it.
So the next step is to get it onto my iOS device.
Now I can see I've connected my iPad.
You can do this through wire connector or you can do it wirelessly with iOS 6 now.
Either way you've got it connected you can select it.
If I look at everything in here I can actually see what movies are on the iPad.
You would think I'd be able to drag and drop this into here and then put it on my iPad.
In fact you can do that but only if under Summary here you have selected to Manually
manage music and videos.
By selecting that then I can simply go to Movies here and drag and drop directly into
iPad.
So let's say you haven't done that.
Instead we are going to the iPad control screen here and we have all the tabs at the top,
and we are going to go over to Movies.
Under Movies I have checked Sync Movies and it shows me all the movies in my iTunes library.
I can see there is the ducks one.
I'm going to check it off and theoretically that is all I need.
I now hit Apply and now it will sync with my iPad and transfer everything I have checked
off here to my iPad.
So it is a quick way to get a whole bunch of videos there.
Now in reality this is what is going to happen.
I hit Apply.
This ducks video was taken with a camcorder that produced it's own video format.
It is just a version of QuickTime 264 but not the version that the iPad uses.
So this is what happens.
I get this message here.
Ducks was not copied to the iPad because it cannot be played on this iPad.
This is very common if you take the video raw from a camcorder and try to put it into
an iOS device using iTunes.
See the iPad and iPhone have specific video chips in it and in order to conserve battery
power they play very specific video formats and don't try to convert on the fly video
formats.
So you have to convert this video to something that the iPad, in this case, can play.
Now if you use a video that you took with your iPad or your iPhone or something you
produced in iMovie chances are you are not going to go through any other steps.
It is going to sync right over and it will work fine.
So all I have to do here is to go back into my library and go back to this movie here
and select the video again.
Now I go to File and you can see there is a menu item called Create New Version.
I can create a new version for the iPad or iPhone, obviously a smaller screen, or for
the iPad and Apple TV.
When I select that it is going to start processing the video and creating a second version of
it and this version will be able to transfer to the iPad.
When that is done I have two versions of the video here.
Let's switch to List view here and then use Command J for View Options.
Under that I can actually take a look at various things like the File type right here.
I can see that they have different files types.
Furthermore I can add the date modified and I can see right here this is obviously the
original version of the video and this is the video I just did.
So the MPEG-4 video here is the new one and the one that, perhaps the only one, I want
to keep.
I can go in here and rename it and now when I go to my iPad here and go to Movies I can
say no I don't want to sync this one but I want to sync this one and Apply and this time
the video will sync over to my iPad.
So it is this conversion process that gets a lot of people.
Now you can think of three different types of videos.
The first is the video that is already compatible with the iPad or iPhone and this will go right
into iTunes and copy right over to your device.
The second is one that will play on your Mac because your Mac will play all sorts of videos
code.
So it will play fine in iTunes but you have to do this conversion process in order to
have a version that will then play on your iOS device.
The third type of video is one that won't even play in iTunes.
This means that it is using some sort of code that even your Mac can't play.
You have to use a third party conversion tool to get these into a state where they can play.
You might as well use them and convert them right to an iPad or iPhone compatible format.
You can do this with something like handbrake or miro or even using Quicktime player.
So I hope you found this useful.
You can see here I've got my ducks video working on my iPad.
Until next time this is Gary with
MacMost Now.