I have taken several MOV movies with qik-video (with my iPhone 3g) and now with my iPhone 4 I've taken several. All look great and fine on the iphone.
Then I transfer them to my Windows XP machine when I sync the iphone. They are of my daughter so I put them in "My Pictures" with all the still photos. Afterwards, even if I have checked "sync videos" in iTunes, the movies don't come over.
So I read a bunch of posts including this one, and was successful in importing the videos into iTunes and converting them into "iPhone format" - which seems to basically convert them from MOV to MP4/M4V. So far so good. The iPhone seems to sync fine with the converted movies and I can now see them in my iPod application under "Movies".
Despite this process seeming to be quite cumbersome for Mac products, I suppose I can live with it. What bugs me the most right now, is that once I've done this Rube Goldberg conversion dance, the videos show up in the YouTube type interface, so they play in a landscape frame although (being originated from the iPhone) they are portrait-oriented videos.
What I'd like is an app or interface similar to iBooks that can take videos, realize they are from the iphone, make them easy to convert and show them in the proper aspect ratio. I haven't found that yet.
I'm not a pro, I just tend to get more videos of my kid with the iPhone since I have it all the time. Not looking to make any great DVDs, but I would like to have easy access to these videos in an aspect ratio that I can see well.
Thanks for any advice!
-pete
Then I transfer them to my Windows XP machine when I sync the iphone. They are of my daughter so I put them in "My Pictures" with all the still photos. Afterwards, even if I have checked "sync videos" in iTunes, the movies don't come over.
So I read a bunch of posts including this one, and was successful in importing the videos into iTunes and converting them into "iPhone format" - which seems to basically convert them from MOV to MP4/M4V. So far so good. The iPhone seems to sync fine with the converted movies and I can now see them in my iPod application under "Movies".
Despite this process seeming to be quite cumbersome for Mac products, I suppose I can live with it. What bugs me the most right now, is that once I've done this Rube Goldberg conversion dance, the videos show up in the YouTube type interface, so they play in a landscape frame although (being originated from the iPhone) they are portrait-oriented videos.
What I'd like is an app or interface similar to iBooks that can take videos, realize they are from the iphone, make them easy to convert and show them in the proper aspect ratio. I haven't found that yet.
I'm not a pro, I just tend to get more videos of my kid with the iPhone since I have it all the time. Not looking to make any great DVDs, but I would like to have easy access to these videos in an aspect ratio that I can see well.
Thanks for any advice!
-pete