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Tip on how to import videos from the iPhone 4S and transfer iPhone videos to Mac quickly
Like most new iPhone 4S owners, I’ve been occasionally playing with the video recording feature. Although I have a couple YouTube accounts, up to now I’ve never used them much (I imagine that may change as I get the hang of video taking a bit more with the 4S) – and for now I much prefer getting videos over to my Mac and sharing from there if I decide I want to. This also lets you view your videos at full quality, rather than compressed / monkeyed with for YouTube.
So I was very happy to spot a superb tip for importing videos quickly from the iPhone 4S to a Mac – and here are the easy steps.
Step 1, Connect your iPhone to your Mac with its USB (sync) cable
Step 2, Launch the Image Capture app on your Mac
The Image Capture app should almost instantly see the iPhone attached, and offer up a dialog like the one in the screencap below. From there you can choose where to download videos or pictures to, whether to download all or make individual selections, and review and modify several other options (e.g whether or not to delete the originals on the iPhone once the import is done).
Step 3, Transfers your videos to the Mac
Once you’ve made your choices and clicked to download, it shows you a status bar and quickly transfers your videos over to the Mac. Or you can just click to select a video and drag it straight into your desired target folder for it. I have tested so far with only 30 – 60 second videos, but these zoomed across to the Mac quite nicely.
That’s it – your video files will be available as .mov files wherever you chose to save them too.
Notes
1. You can also import iPhone 4S videos via the iPhoto app, simply connect your iPhone 4S to your computer and open your photo management program. Import photos in your normal way. Coming along with the still photos will be your video.
2. There may also be an app that does wireless transfer of files back and forth from iPhone to Mac or Windows machines that will work for this purpose, but I haven’t spotted one yet.
3. After you importing video from iPhone 4S to Mac, the video files will be available as .mov files, you can use MOV Converter for Mac tool to convert them into other formats you need.
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