

And here's the trick: Many of these apps will edit video or add special effects and then spit out the results in an iMovie-compatible format. Third-party apps, too, can read any movie file stored in your camera roll. I shall now permit myself an exclamation mark: ! Converting Video With the iPadĪs we know, the iOS app for playing videos is a lot less finicky than iMovie, as all it has to do is play back video. Still, it would be nice if you could do these conversions on the iPad itself, right? Well, it turns out you can. Also, the iTunes step will be automatic now it's set up. Both ClipWrap and MPEG Streamclip can batch-convert files, and you can save your Streamclip settings as a preset.

Written here it seems like a long process, but in practice it is pretty fast. Let us know the make and model of you camera if you are successful, or if you fail. As I said, I have tried this with files from a Panasonic GF1 and found it to work.

Open up a project in iMovie on the iPad and your clip should be there. So perhaps the problem has to do with whatever HEVC is? I hope this is fixed soon.Now, the moment of truth. Note that I attempted this same process in Quicktime, but selected '4k' instead of '1080p', and it did *not* play on iPhone. I *unchecked* this box, and after exporting the file from Quicktime in this manner, I was able to transfer it successfully to my iPhone and play it. In Quicktime, I clicked Export As > 1080p, and in the following 'Save as' screen, there was a box that was pre-checked labeled "Use HEVC". Here is a weird (not really practical) workaround I found after further experimenting:Īfter exporting a compostion from After Effects, I opened it on my Macbook using Quicktime.

This same process of exporting and Airdropping video to my iPhone has worked perfectly for the past 2 years. I have not changed anything about my workflow. I'm starting to think that either Adobe or Apple has recently introduced an update that is causing this conflict. However, when I try to download the file from my Dropbox to my phone, I receive the same error message. However, saving the file to iCould Drive doesn't fix the problem, either.Ĥ) I've tried to avoid Airdrop by saving the exported file to a shared file service such as my Dropbox. I am exporting it as an H.264 / mp4.Ģ) The exported video file plays fine on my Macbook.ģ) I try to Airdrop the file to my iPhone, and I receive the error message "Failed to save item. I just posted more details in another forum, but I'll share here just in case someone finds them helpful in some way (?):ġ) I am exporting a composition from After Effects using Adobe Media Encoder. I'd love to know more about why these particular presets fixed the issue, because I am currently having this same issue except with After Effects (and exporting from After Effects using Media Encoder).
