Home made family movies STORE and VIEW options

[edavt04]

So in the last 2 years I've made 21 family home movies (5-10min long) using iMovie app and watched them in iMovie Theatre on Apple TV. Now, out of a blue, ALL 21 movies I made disappeared from iMovie app on Apple TV. Also, Apple TV's iMOvie app won't store more than 50 movies, as I just found out.

So I wonder what other options I have to easily access and watch my home made movies on smart TV... I care a lot about privacy... Somebody suggested to put them on youtube (to be eccessed thru Apple TV) and place highest privacy setting, but I am still worried they are not PRIVATE enough... Any other options out there? I have a smart TV with NO USB (otherwise I'd just throw them on a flash drive and stick them into TV and watch it that way).

P.S. All my movies are backed up by 3 different external hard drives, AND they are on google photos.com (I trust google more than youtube i guess

 

[casperes1996]

P.S. All my movies are backed up by 3 different external hard drives, AND they are on google photos.com (I trust google more than youtube i guess

That's kinda funny because YouTube literally is Google. YouTube is owned by Alphabet, i.e. Google. It's all one company.
And if you care about privacy, Google won't do you any favours I can tell you that much for free. Although they can also tell you that for free if they can sell your data to 100 companies.. Well, not entirely free then. With your photos and videos they're probably training neural networks on them right now to find out if there's bacon in any of the vids and photos so they can advertise bacon to you.

Anyways your question. iTunes Home Sharing is an option. So is setting up your own file server somewhere else in the house from a Mac mini or whatever. iCloud Drive, AirPlay, or simply burning DVDs or Blu Rays.

 

[edavt04]

That's kinda funny because YouTube literally is Google. YouTube is owned by Alphabet, i.e. Google. It's all one company.
And if you care about privacy, Google won't do you any favours I can tell you that much for free. Although they can also tell you that for free if they can sell your data to 100 companies.. Well, not entirely free then. With your photos and videos they're probably training neural networks on them right now to find out if there's bacon in any of the vids and photos so they can advertise bacon to you.

Anyways your question. iTunes Home Sharing is an option. So is setting up your own file server somewhere else in the house from a Mac mini or whatever. iCloud Drive, AirPlay, or simply burning DVDs or Blu Rays.

Thx Casperes! I actually don't care that google photos.com analizes pics and directs ads at me. I am an intelligent consumer and I decide what to buy. What I DO worry about is that... what can people do with kid's pics/videos if they hack google photos.com... This CAN happen. Think of Equifax data breach here in the US! People's identities got stolen... So... It MAY happen. But thinking logically... Who would need kid's pictures and videos? And what woudl they wanna do with it? AM I being paranoid?

Regarding your suggestion with iTunes: it worked, and the family movie got added to iTUnes on MY MAC, but when I tried to access them in MOVIES section of iTunes on Apple TV, I could not find them there...

 

[casperes1996]

Thx Casperes! I actually don't care that google photos.com analizes pics and directs ads at me. I am an intelligent consumer and I decide what to buy. What I DO worry about is that... what can people do with kid's pics/videos if they hack google photos.com... This CAN happen. Think of Equifax data breach here in the US! People's identities got stolen... So... It MAY happen. But thinking logically... Who would need kid's pictures and videos? And what woudl they wanna do with it? AM I being paranoid?

I think you need to be paranoid on the internet sometimes. If you know what you sign up with, I usually also don't mind. For instance, if a box pops up and asks if I want to send data to the app developer to help them improve it, I'll agree to send the data. But I don't like it when said app just collects the data without asking

Regarding your suggestion with iTunes: it worked, and the family movie got added to iTUnes on MY MAC, but when I tried to access them in MOVIES section of iTunes on Apple TV, I could not find them there...

Is Home Sharing enabled on both devices and with the same account? - I assume you have the videos in the Home Videos part of iTunes - is that also where you went on the ATV?

 

[ColdCase]

Unless something changed recently, On the ATV, you select computers (not movies), then the shared itunes library, then whatever your itunes is set up for (movies, tv shows.... ).

 

[Boyd01]

When you add your movies to iTunes, the default is to classify them as "home videos". Select the video in iTunes and go to File > Get Info. Click the Options tab and you can use the Media Kind dropdown to change this to Movie if you like. They will then appear in the Movies category in iTunes and on your Apple TV. Of course, you still need to select Computers from the Apple TV main menu (I have an AppleTV 3, but I think this is called "home sharing" on the newer versions).

Now this only works for watching videos at your home. On the internet, I like Vimeo much better than YouTube. The free account isn't bad, but I have the paid version which is pretty inexpensive and gives you more storage and better privacy controls. You can make your video private so that it won't be accessible by the public but you can send a private link to your family members to watch it, even if they aren't Vimeo members.

 

[edavt04]

Thx so much everybody!! It worked SWEEEET!! (I had to turn on home sharing)