A question for iOS experts – my son is experimenting with making home movies and I have been encouraging him to use a proper camera for this instead of his iPad mini. The problem I have now encountered is how to transfer the camera’s movie files onto the iPad for editing in iMovie. I normally use Windows and Android, and so would either plug the android device into a PC and transfer via USB, or store them on my NAS and download from there. However, Apple seems determined to isolate users from file structures, so what is trivially easy on Android/Windows is a challenge on iOS.
Things we have tried so far:
- Using DropBox – this works, but his quota is quickly full and transferring via the internet seems inefficient
- Using the Synology DSFile app – this allows us to see the movie files on the NAS, and appears to allow download, but iMovie cannot see the downloaded files
- Using Windows Movie Maker for editing - but my son prefers iMovie
So, my question is – is there a simple, free, efficient way of transferring movie files from a camera to an iPad for editing in iMovie? I have googled this but can't find any useful help