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.
