Do You Want Videos on Your iPad?

Have you ever wondered how to get videos onto your iPad? Well, here is how you do it.

The first and easiest way is to purchase them from iTunes. . . But that isn’t always possible especially if you record it on your camera. Well, whatever way you get the video, you need to have it on the computer that you sync your iPad to. Then you open up iTunes on your computer. If your left sidebar isn’t showing then turn it on by going to View and click on Show Sidebar.

Next, you will want to drag your movie from the computer into iTunes and drop it on the word Movies in the Sidebar.

Now, plug in your iPad to your computer. It will show up on the left side in the Sidebar. Click on your iPad so that it is highlighted in the Sidebar. A new menu will appear on the right side of iTunes at the top. Click on the menu called Movies.

Then you will need to make sure that you have a check mark in the box next to Sync Movies. Then select the movies that you want on your iPad and click on Apply button in the lower right corner.

Sometimes you will get a warning that the movies can’t be copied to the iPad because it isn’t in the correct format. To correct this, click on the Movies tab in the Sidebar. Then select the movie and go to the Menu bar on the Mac and select File and scroll down to Create New Version and select Create iPad or Apple TV Version. This will create your movie and then go back and sync it to your iPad.

If the video is in a version that won’t even play on the Mac, then you will have to use some third party video conversion software like Handbrake or something else.

Good luck and have fun.

Ross Rogers