Videos in Photostream

[downingp]

One of the many features I was looking forward to with iOS7 was the ability for videos to show up in the Photostream album. For some reason though, when I took a video it didn't show up in my Photostream like my photos normally do. Did I not understand the keynote presentation when they announced iOS7 that you could now have videos in Photostream?
Is there a setting or something I need to do to enable video sharing?

Thanks in advance.

 

[duck33]

One of the many features I was looking forward to with iOS7 was the ability for videos to show up in the Photostream album. For some reason though, when I took a video it didn't show up in my Photostream like my photos normally do. Did I not understand the keynote presentation when they announced iOS7 that you could now have videos in Photostream?
Is there a setting or something I need to do to enable video sharing?

Thanks in advance.

I believe you have to share your photostream for videos to show up.

 

[downingp]

I like the idea of how my photos from my iphone are automatically loaded into Aperture or iPhoto without doing anything. Is it possible for videos to do the same thing?

 

[GadgetGeek407]

it is called photostream not videostream so no, I would love this too but it does not do it

 

[Maverickster]

it is called photostream not videostream so no, I would love this too but it does not do it

That's accurate, except for the fact that they said it would in iOS7 and it doesn't. Much like the OP, I was looking forward to this as it would've meant I would never have to manually move videos to my server (which is where Photostream currently dumps). Guess not.

 

[charlituna]

One of the many features I was looking forward to with iOS7 was the ability for videos to show up in the Photostream album.

Videos only appear in shared photo streams

 

[portishead]

That's accurate, except for the fact that they said it would in iOS7 and it doesn't. Much like the OP, I was looking forward to this as it would've meant I would never have to manually move videos to my server (which is where Photostream currently dumps). Guess not.

I think this would be cool, but that's a lot of data to be moving around. That could really affect battery life and I'm not sure the trade off is worth it. I just plug in and back my stuff up, takes 2 minutes a week. Maybe if we had the option to only select which videos were shared I'd like that.

 

[downingp]

I created a shared photostream hoping that would trigger the video to show up in iPhoto/Aperture without success. Oh well I suppose

 

[MonstaMash]

Seems like Photo Stream is just for pictures. No way to make videos automatically appear. Maybe once Wi-Fi AC and LTE become mainstream everywhere, Apple will allow this. Personally, I'd rather just choose the videos I want to share manually, as it would be pretty battery intensive to always upload every video I took.

Videos can be shared by creating an iCloud Stream (seems like they are phasing away from the 'Shared Photo Streams' terminology?). Videos appear to be limited to 5 minutes (maybe to save bandwidth?) but can be stored indefinitely and don't use up your iCloud storage limit.

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I created a shared photostream hoping that would trigger the video to show up in iPhoto/Aperture without success. Oh well I suppose

This will be probably be available in OS X Mavericks. Can anyone confirm? I noticed that when you try to share a video on iPhoto, it says it can only share photos.