Over the weekend I played in a tennis tournament and used a GoPro to record the final match. I decided to edit the footage on my 12″ iPad Pro. <\/p>\n\n
Importing the footage from the GoPro was trivial using Apple’s Lightning SD Card Reader<\/a>. iMovie on the iPad worked very well.<\/p>\n\n Problems started when it came time to share the finished movie with the other players. The result was over an hour and a half long, and weighed in at over 10GB when saved out as a 1080p movie. This is too large for my DropBox account and my iCloud account. What to do?<\/p>\n\n First idea: save it back to an SD card. Turns out you cannot do this.<\/p>\n\n Next idea: try and Air Drop the file to my Mac. Seemed to work but the resulting file was only a few hundred MB and would not open – sigh.<\/p>\n\n Next idea: save it to a USB memory stick. Can’t do this either even though I do have a lightning USB adapter.<\/p>\n\n In the end, I had to FTP the file (using Panic’s Transmit<\/a>) from the iPad to my Mac. From there I could copy the file to a USB memory stick. Side note: When sharing a massive file like this, the iPad should not go to sleep in the middle and abort the share operation – it sucked having to baby sit the thing to keep it from going to sleep.<\/p>\n\n There is so much about the iPad that I really like. I take it with me almost everywhere. I pretty much live in Linea<\/a>, OmniOutliner<\/a>, Tweetbot<\/a>, Slack, Mail and Safari. But when I try and do seemingly simple things with it I run aground, over and over again. iOS 11 is a huge improvement but it does not address this kind of issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the weekend I played in a tennis tournament and used a GoPro to record the final match. I decided to edit the footage on…