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iPhone 3GS: Importing Videos On A Mac

Submitted by Michael Johnston on June 20, 2009 - 6:21pm.
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The most anticipated feature of the iPhone 3G S is arguably the ability to record video. It looks great, and you can post it to YouTube right from your phone! But how do you import the full-quality video? Mac users will probably say "iPhoto," but you may not want to open up such a big app for a quick import. The quickest way we know of is to use the Image Capture app which sees both photos and videos recorded on your iPhone. Just open it up, find the video, drag it into Finder, and there you g

Windows users can get at their iPhone 3G S videos in Windows Explorer, similar to the way you import photo.

Check out a video we imported below!

Have fun with those cat videos! ;]
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I think our cats are clones...

Submitted by mooryan on June 20, 2009 - 9:46pm.
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Doesn't iPhoto automatically launch?

Submitted by morwen on June 21, 2009 - 9:01pm.
Whenever I have any new pictures or videos on my iPhone and plug in, iPhoto automatically launches on me. If there is a way to stop this, I'd dearly like to know what it is.

Submitted by Michael Johnston on June 21, 2009 - 9:09pm.
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Originally Posted by morwen View Post
Whenever I have any new pictures or videos on my iPhone and plug in, iPhoto automatically launches on me. If there is a way to stop this, I'd dearly like to know what it is.
Open Image Capture, go to preferences, and change "When a camera is connected, open:" to "No applications"

Submitted by morwen on June 21, 2009 - 9:19pm.
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Open Image Capture, go to preferences, and change "When a camera is connected, open:" to "No applications"
Thanks, I'll give it a try. My Kodak digital camera doesn't mount on my desktop when I plug that in though, only shows up in iPhoto. I'll have to see if it still shows up if I have iPhoto open and then plug it in, otherwise I won't be able to leave this setting on.

Doesn't actually download

Submitted by trihard on July 17, 2009 - 12:37pm.
Hi,

I would love to be able to use Image Capture to get the videos off of my iPhone 3gs, but it does not work. Image Capture shows that there are videos there, but it won't actually download them. It acts like it will, but nothing gets put on the computer, no matter where I try to put it. Dragging and dropping also yields nothing. I am running OS X.5.7 (non intel).

Any thoughts on why this won't work for me?

Submitted by morwen on July 17, 2009 - 3:30pm.
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Originally Posted by trihard View Post
Hi,

I would love to be able to use Image Capture to get the videos off of my iPhone 3gs, but it does not work. Image Capture shows that there are videos there, but it won't actually download them. It acts like it will, but nothing gets put on the computer, no matter where I try to put it. Dragging and dropping also yields nothing. I am running OS X.5.7 (non intel).

Any thoughts on why this won't work for me?
No idea. I plugged in my iPhone, launched Image Capture and it came up and recognized my iPhone 3GS. I created an iPhone Pics folder on my desktop. I chose that as where to download the stuff to, I checked "delete from phone" in Image Capture options and used "download some". It downloaded both pictures and videos and removed them from my iPhone. I'm running 10.5.7, but I have an intel machine.

Submitted by Michael Johnston on July 21, 2009 - 11:57pm.
Very strange! Try doing a repair permissions and possibly try reinstalling 10.5.7 from the combo updater. http://support.apple.com/downloads/M...7_Combo_Update

Submitted by SyazaNadhirah on November 15, 2009 - 3:02am.
somebody help me! I tried to use Image Capture and iPhoto, both don't work.
the thing is my iPhone doesn't show in the side bar. but it does on iTunes. I really need to transfer the video. HELP ME!!!!
it doesn't show in my sister's mac also, so I'm guessing its the iPhone not the mac
HELP HELP!

How to fix iPhoto when not detecting iPhone

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on February 16, 2010 - 10:44am.
You need to delete photos that were downloaded from the Internet, including email. According to an answer on Apple's forum these downloaded photos often have some "corruption" that will prevent the iPhone from getting recognized by Image Capture and iPhoto. I had this same problem and fixed it by deleting all downloaded photos and screen captures. I also deleted some photos I edited on the phone with the Photoshop app and the Legos app just to be safe since I happened to install and use these about the same time my problem started.
Here's the related discussion:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread....readID=2224595