Transcript: Snapguide “How to Transfer Photos, Videos to iPad from SD Card”

Snapguide Transcript

View Snapguide: How to Transfer Photos, Videos to iPad from SD Card, by Ron Stephenson

Step 1:

I enjoy taking pictures with my camera that uses a SD card, but what I really enjoy is going ahead and doing the editing on my iPad. And it's really very simple to get what's on the SD card for my camera onto my iPad. Here, let me show you how.

Step 2:

Standard formats supported include: 

For photos, JPEG and raw.

For videos,  H.264 and MPEG-4.

And for additional compatibility questions, consult Apple.com/iPad/specs for a complete compatible formats listing.

Step 3:

First thing we want to do is take the card from our camera and we're going to insert that into the dongle that's part of the Apple camera connection kit. And, in this case it is a 30-pin connector and that goes with my iPad 3. If you have a newer iPad mini, that's going to use the lightning connector. There are also cables and ways of using this (30-pin connector) to go ahead and hook to the lightning connector or to start fresh with other cables compatible with the lightning connector.

The next thing we want to do is simply... we're going to insert this into the 30-pin connector on the iPad, and then the iPad’s software is going to take over from there.

Step 4:

After we attach the camera connection kit to the iPad, you'll notice that it automatically recognizes the SD card that we've placed in the kit connector, and you'll see that it recognizes also the photos that are on the card. In this case you'll notice a couple of pictures up at the top that are marked in the green checkmarks, and that means that we've previously imported those photographs from the card. So this time let's select a couple of others we would like to bring. And, you will notice that as I marked those, they're coming in with a blue checkmark meaning those we've activated for importing this time.

Step 5:

Once we've selected the ones we want, down at the bottom we have a choice to import in the blue (selection option) the photos, and we have an option of importing all of them or only the ones we've selected. In this case let's import only those that we've selected with the blue checkmark. Those have been imported, and it asks us now if we would like to delete those from the camera chip, and we're going to say "no" we like to keep them. And, at this point the pictures have been imported onto the iPad and they're going to be in an album called "last imports."