Reducing Video size
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Hi, welcome to iPF!
On your iPad, you can use Apple's app iMovie to compress video files. Videos taken with the iPad camera can also be resized with this app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/video-compressor/id482465886?mt=8
If you want to resize them on your computer, there's software such as HandBrake and Video Editor.
On your iPad, you can use Apple's app iMovie to compress video files. Videos taken with the iPad camera can also be resized with this app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/video-compressor/id482465886?mt=8
If you want to resize them on your computer, there's software such as HandBrake and Video Editor.
I have IMovie on my iPad....
Here's the link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imovie/id377298193?mt=8
Here's the link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imovie/id377298193?mt=8
Thanks JA & scifan57 - I now have the iMovie installed on iPad and also Video Player on desktop. All I want to do is reduce the video from 174042kb so I can send it to someone. I still don't know how to do that. I wasn't going to worry about editing it at this stage (and I wouldn't know how to)
twerppoet
iPad Fan
You drag the movie down to the timeline. Clip off anything you don't want, back out to the movie project view, chose to export, and use the option that works best, size wise.
Here's a link to some tutorials and other stuff for iMovie.
http://help.apple.com/imovie/ipad/2.0/index.html
Here's a link to some tutorials and other stuff for iMovie.
http://help.apple.com/imovie/ipad/2.0/index.html
twerppoet
iPad Fan
When you are in iMovie and not seeing what you are supposed to see, take a screen shot and post it here.
You take a screen shot by briefly pressing the home and power button at the same time. There will be a brief screen flash and probably a click. The image will show up in your camera roll in the Photos app.
Use the Upload A File button at the bottom of the forums text editor to send the image.
If there is private/sensitive information in the screen shot, you can use the free Skitch app to obscure portions of the image, or point things out. If you've seen images with arrows and circles and stuff on the forum, they were probably created with Skitch.
Give me a few moments and I will create a Skitch image for the iMovie editor screen with the various areas labeled.
You take a screen shot by briefly pressing the home and power button at the same time. There will be a brief screen flash and probably a click. The image will show up in your camera roll in the Photos app.
Use the Upload A File button at the bottom of the forums text editor to send the image.
If there is private/sensitive information in the screen shot, you can use the free Skitch app to obscure portions of the image, or point things out. If you've seen images with arrows and circles and stuff on the forum, they were probably created with Skitch.
Give me a few moments and I will create a Skitch image for the iMovie editor screen with the various areas labeled.
I had a whole page of individual reels, but when I took a pic as per your instructions, only one reel came out, which I have taken a photo of. So how do I get it on to your site since my options are only email, face book etc.
If I go into my desktop and look at them, I see all the individual videos, but don't know how to get into the one I just "copied". In other words, how do I move around the iPad when its on my desktop?
If I go into my desktop and look at them, I see all the individual videos, but don't know how to get into the one I just "copied". In other words, how do I move around the iPad when its on my desktop?
twerppoet
iPad Fan
Ok. My instructions were a bit off. You tap to select then add to the timeline, not drag. Here is how iMovie looks and works. I've already created a new project using the Simple template; which adds the least effects.
Make sure you are in the Projects tab at the top, then tap the + icon at the top right to create a new Project; then choose your template. You can play templates to get an idea of the kind of movie they are meant to create.
{Thinking over what you say you are seeing, you might be in the Videos tab view, which just shows the more recent video clips in your Camera Roll. Go to Projects.}
These are the basic areas.
Video Preview shows the current frame, as determined by the white line in the Timeline.
Video Clips shows all videos stored in the Photos app. These are the clips a available for your project. You can also take clips in-app by using the camera icon at the lower right. Those clips will be added directly to the Timeline.
Timeline shows all clips added to the current project, in order of play, with any effects added before or in-between clips. This is also where you will do any editing of the clips.
With the above view, tap the clip you want to add to the Timeline, and then select the down icon.
{Tap the (?) icon at the top left, then More Help at the bottom left for online iMovie help. It will be pretty much the same thing as I linked before.}
Your screen should now look something like this. You are ready to export the clip at a new size, or do some trimming and editing before exporting.
Back out to the selected project view (or whatever it's called). Here you can use the export icon (looks like a box with an down arrow) to choose a destination for the movie, and then an export size.
Good luck.
Make sure you are in the Projects tab at the top, then tap the + icon at the top right to create a new Project; then choose your template. You can play templates to get an idea of the kind of movie they are meant to create.
{Thinking over what you say you are seeing, you might be in the Videos tab view, which just shows the more recent video clips in your Camera Roll. Go to Projects.}
These are the basic areas.
Video Preview shows the current frame, as determined by the white line in the Timeline.
Video Clips shows all videos stored in the Photos app. These are the clips a available for your project. You can also take clips in-app by using the camera icon at the lower right. Those clips will be added directly to the Timeline.
Timeline shows all clips added to the current project, in order of play, with any effects added before or in-between clips. This is also where you will do any editing of the clips.
With the above view, tap the clip you want to add to the Timeline, and then select the down icon.
{Tap the (?) icon at the top left, then More Help at the bottom left for online iMovie help. It will be pretty much the same thing as I linked before.}
Your screen should now look something like this. You are ready to export the clip at a new size, or do some trimming and editing before exporting.
Back out to the selected project view (or whatever it's called). Here you can use the export icon (looks like a box with an down arrow) to choose a destination for the movie, and then an export size.
Good luck.
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