- Are you wondering how to transfer videos
from your PC to an iPhone or how to transfer videos
back to your Windows PC from an iPhone?
On this video, we're gonna run through
a few quick and easy ways to do both.
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So let's jump into it.
Now whether you have shot your videos on your iPhone
or iPad and you want to edit them on your PC
or you've got the footage saved from your camera
on your Windows computer,
but you wanna edit them on your iPhone,
the process to actually import or transfer the files
between your PC and your iPhone or iPad
is unfortunately not as seamless as you might hope.
The good news is that there are actually
a few easy ways to do it.
So in this video we're gonna run through the options
that I'd recommend that'll have you covered
no matter what your circumstances.
Just a heads up that there are actually
a couple of different options
that we're gonna cover off here
and you might find that one of them works
particularly well with your workflow,
so I definitely suggest sticking around to see
all the different options available
before you jump off and put it into action.
Okay, so we're gonna start off with
getting your files off your phone or your iPad
and onto your computer.
So the first wat we're gonna look at is using the cable
that came with your phone.
So you wanna plug your phone using the lightning cable
into a USB port on your computer.
Now, it may pop up straight away saying
that you need to trust or authorize the device,
so make sure that you accept that,
then all you need to do is open up a Explorer window
and come over to this PC,
and then you can open up there Apple iPhone.
So double click on that.
Internal storage.
DCIM, 100 Apple.
And here are all your photos and video files on the phone.
So, to get them off, all you need to do is
select the ones that you want
and you can just drag them into the folder that you want
or drag them somewhere like your desktop
and they'll start to copy off.
So really straightforward.
If you don't have your cable with you
or you wanna transfer them off using wifi,
then if you go to the app store
and install the VLC for mobile app.
With that app installed,
you just wanna open up then the photos app
and hit select and pick the photos or the videos
that you wanna transfer to your computer.
So just tap on the ones that you want.
Let's press these five.
Then we'll go share down in the bottom left,
and here you wanna pick save to files.
Go through and prepare your files to copy them over,
and then you'll just wanna pick the VLC folder
and choose add.
That shouldn't take long at all
'cause it's just copying the filed internally
into that VLC app.
So now when we go back to the VLC app,
you can see that we've got these files
here in it ready to go.
So now that you've got your files in there,
you do wanna turn on one more setting
so that we access those from the computer.
So let's go back up to that
marker cone there in top left hand corner
and make sure that sharing via wifi is selected.
You'll see that it's got a web address there.
192.168.86.23, that might be different
depending on your actual network setup.
What you wanna do is type out that web address
into your desktop computer.
Now both your computer and your phone will
need to be on the same network,
but they don't necessarily need to be connected via wifi.
So your computer, if it doesn't have wifi,
this is still gonna work as long as the two
are connected to the same network.
So if I open up my web browser,
I will then type in that address,
and that'll open up that app on our phone as a website,
but we can directly interact with our phone.
You see we've got the option here
to download those files that are in there.
So then it's just a matter of
picking the files that we want.
So this one here, it'll start to play
but we can pause it.
Let me just right click and choose save video as,
and we can choose where we want to save it to,
so maybe here just under downloads,
hit save, and that's gonna happen pretty quick
because it's not going over the internet,
it's just talking direct to your phone
So if we open up Downloads now,
there's the file there.
So that's how easy it is to get your files
and photos and things off your iPad or iPhone
and onto your Windows computer.
Now to get the files back the other way,
the process is pretty similar,
but depending on the app that you wanna use these files in,
the process can be a little bit different.
So the first method I'm gonna show you is using iTunes.
Now for this method,
you will need to have your phone connected to your computer
again, with the USB to lightning cable
that came with the phone.
So once you've plugged in your phone, open up iTunes.
Now you may need to grant access
or give permission to your phone again
to allow it to connect.
And what you wanna do is click this
little picture of a phone here.
Then you wanna come down to file sharing
and you can see here that
we've got a heap of different apps.
DJI Go, iMovie, Fronto, all of these apps here
will have something to do with video or photo
and editing and playback.
So these apps here you can actually
directly import the files straight to
those apps for use in it.
So all we need to do is either pick the app that you want,
so for us, we'll just pick iMovie.
So you can either then drag and
drop your files into this window
or you can click add file here.
But our files are right here on the desktop,
so let's just grab these files here
and drag them over to this area.
You can see when we let go,
the files start copying over automatically.
So this will work with any audio files, video files,
or any photos or anything that you want to use
in your iMovie app.
So once the files are on the actual phone,
we'll jump back over to the phone,
open up iMovie, and then down in the bottom left hand corner
you'll see this download or import button,
so press on that.
Then select iTunes down in the bottom,
and we've got the import five files.
So when we press that,
it's going to bring those five files in
that we just imported from the computer
and drop them into a new iMovie project.
And you can see that it's even created a timeline there
with all of those clips ready to go in it.
So that's how you can import your files
directly into an individual app.
So the same would apply if you want your files
in Lumafusion to edit your videos in that.
So now if you wanna transfer your files
back to your phone over the network or over wifi,
then the process is almost exactly the same
that we ran through earlier using VLC.
So make sure you've got the VLC app installed on your phone,
open up VLC, click the little cone
in the top left hand corner,
and make sure that sharing via wifi is enabled.
Then over on your computer,
you wanna open up your web browser
and type in that same number.
And then to send your files over to the phone,
you can just drag and drop them into the window here,
or you can come up here to the plus button
to pick them manually.
So we've got them here on the desktop,
let's just select these files
and drag them onto the window here.
You can see that they are transferring over wirelessly.
Again, your computer and your phone will need
to be connected to the same network.
So now, back on the phone inside the VLC app,
we can see that we've got those files there
that are now on our phone,
but they're still inside the VLC app.
So in order to use them in any other app,
we need to save them out.
So if you press edit in the top right hand corner,
select all the files that you wanna use there,
you can just press select all at the top,
and then down in the bottom left hand corner,
you can see the share button or the export button.
So if we press on that,
then we either get to choose to drop them
directly into the apps that we wanna use them in,
like you've got there copy to LumaFusion,
copy to iMovie, and then they'll be able to be accessed
inside of those apps.
Or if you just want them into the photos app,
then you can just press save five videos,
'cause we've got five videos selected,
which is in the bottom left hand corner.
Then just hit okay to give VLC permission
to copy the files into your photos and it's done.
The third option is to use a cloud based platform.
Could be iCloud, it could be Google Drive,
it could be Dropbox, but the idea is
that you share your files out to one of those platforms
and upload your files to the cloud,
and then on your phone or your iPad,
you open up that app for that service
and you download those files back to your device.
The biggest downside with this method, though,
is obviously your internet bandwidth.
If you're gonna be moving large files up to the cloud
and then downloading them back to your device,
it could take a really long time.
So depending on your workflow,
type of videos you're creating,
and how you're actually shooting your videos,
this might be the method for you.
Okay, so those are my top recommended ways
for transferring your files between your iPhone and your PC.
Now if you are looking to edit your videos faster,
then check out the video linked on screen now
with our entire video editing process,
step by step, to help you edit in the most efficient way.
And if you're interested in editing videos
on your IOS device,
then check out the other video
where we cover off our top recommended apps.
I'll see you soon.