How Do I Locate My Videos to Transfer?

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I just tried connecting to the computers USB port, and didn't see the extra folders I created. ... This must have been changed with iOS 5 , because I was able to add a folder this way, from my computer, onto the Camera Roll area of the iPad2 using iOS 4, last year. ... The iPad2 showed as a camera , under the listing of Scanners and Cameras, in the Windows XP "My Computer" window. ... It still shows like this in iOS 5.1, but no "Add Folder" option is available with "right-mouse-button" clicking, to see the mini menu in XP OS. ... Oh well. :-( ... Even more needed now is Enrique's Photo Transfer App, and getting Apple to allow private Video Folder creation in the iDevice's "Video" folder.

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If you can get those videos moved to the iDevice's "Camera-Roll" section, where photos are, you'll be able to "see" them with the transfer App.

If they're in an album, called "Videos" that you created already, within the camera roll area, and can't see the button in the browser, to choose the videos, you may not have the flash player installed. ... Those buttons are seen using the flash plugin to the browser.

My question is, if you didn't create them on the iDevice, how did they get onto the iDevice?

You stated they're stored on the iDevice under "Videos", and then asked can a video only be transferred if made with the iDevice.
So I'm a bit confused with your statement and question, please clarify. :-)

I am using an IPad2 and an IPhone 4S. The videos in question are ones that I have created in an outside program and rendered as MP4 files. I then put them in ITunes and synced to my devices. In my devices they show up under Videos with thumbnails and play nicely.

Hello Ann,
Thank you for clarifying.

The photo transfer App can only see the Camera Roll (Photo section) of the iDevices, by limitation from the Apple iOS.

You can try connecting the iDevice to the computer's USB port, to copy them to the (Photo section) Camera Roll area, thru your computer, by treating the iDevice as a USB storage device, without starting or using iTunes.

If you're using Windows XP, or other windows OS, it will allow you to see the photos area on the iDevice, as a folder, in the "My Computer" window, viewable the same way you open any other hard drive window, and can easily be copied to the iDevice, from your computer that way.

The Mac OS may also do this, I just use Windows, so Enrique may need to verify the Mac options for you.

Once placed in that default iDevice Photo's area, they can be seen by the photo transfer App, and transferred easily using it, to any other iDevice, afterwards.

One extra note - if you create a "Videos" folder on your iDevice Photos area (Camera Roll) first, by using your iDevice to create it, it will show in that window when you use the above method to transfer them from computer to the Camera Roll.
Then just open that sub-folder "Videos" and place the videos you made, to there.

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I just tried connecting to the computers USB port, and didn't see the extra folders I created. ... This must have been changed with iOS 5 , because I was able to add a folder this way, from my computer, onto the Camera Roll area of the iPad2 using iOS 4, last year. ... The iPad2 showed as a camera , under the listing of Scanners and Cameras, in the Windows XP "My Computer" window. ... It still shows like this in iOS 5.1, but no "Add Folder" option is available with "right-mouse-button" clicking, to see the mini menu in XP OS. ... Oh well. :-( ... Even more needed now is Enrique's Photo Transfer App, and getting Apple to allow private Video Folder creation in the iDevice's "Video" folder.

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If you have any further questions, please ask.
Enrique, Amber, or I will try to help you.

Dear Ann,

Thanks for posting your question here. The answer provided by gvdid1 is correct, 'Photo Transfer App' does not have the ability to read videos from the 'Videos' app on your devices. Our app allows you to transfer content (photos and videos) stored on the 'Photos' app of your iPhone and iPad but not outside of it.

To transfer content stored on the 'videos' app you will have to use iTunes. If you created your videos using an app then check if you can save them to the camera roll and then you would be able to transfer them with our app.

I hope this helps you. Let us know if you need further help.

Best regards,

Enrique
Photo Transfer App

Yes, this would be ideal indeed. It would be great to be able to access and save videos to the Videos app to avoid this type of confusion. For now, the only thing we can do is to submit a feature request through the Apple's bug reporting system, although most likely this has been already submitted by other developers (I will look into this).

Hi Enrique, maybe the developers, such as yourself, can suggest to Apple, to allow a separate folder to be created in the Videos section, to put private videos made by the iDevice owner, for their own video storage and transfer from this area.

I can understand Apple not wanting copyright material being copied from the Videos folder, but the user should also be allowed to make a separate private folder in this area.