Video transfer iPhone to Windows PC

[BadCookies]

So what happened was,  I couldn’t find the battery charger for my camera and ended up with an hour 15min interview on an iPhone 12 Pro Max. The video is 9.35 GB and no matter what I try the transfer either times out or arrives at a much much lower video quality when attempting to move to my Windows PC for editing. I am able to take 5-10 min sections of the video and move them but not the full thing. Does anyone know a fix for this or am I going to have to cut up the video on the phone and put it back together on the PC?

[Hinjima]

4 minutes ago, BadCookies said:

So what happened was,  I couldn’t find the battery charger for my camera and ended up with an hour 15min interview on an iPhone 12 Pro Max. The video is 9.35 GB and no matter what I try the transfer either times out or arrives at a much much lower video quality when attempting to move to my Windows PC for editing. I am able to take 5-10 min sections of the video and move them but not the full thing. Does anyone know a fix for this or am I going to have to cut up the video on the phone and put it back together on the PC?

You could always upload the video privately to Youtube then download the video through a Youtube download website.

There is probably an easier way now but I remember back with my 1st gen iPod I couldn't get my MP3 files over to the PC without using a 3rd party program.

I dont own an iPhone, just spitting an idea

[leclod]

Did you connect the phone via USB cable ?

Did you keep the phone "awake" during the transfer ?

And I believe there's a setting somewhere about quality of the sent files.

Edited February 5 by leclod

[whispous]

38 minutes ago, BadCookies said:

So what happened was,  I couldn’t find the battery charger for my camera and ended up with an hour 15min interview on an iPhone 12 Pro Max. The video is 9.35 GB and no matter what I try the transfer either times out or arrives at a much much lower video quality when attempting to move to my Windows PC for editing. I am able to take 5-10 min sections of the video and move them but not the full thing. Does anyone know a fix for this or am I going to have to cut up the video on the phone and put it back together on the PC?

Try uploading to youtube (unlisted) and then try ripping it back from there, if you run out of options here.

[Obioban]

Download through USB.

[dkoudijs]

So keeping the phone awake during the sync is key. I have this issue when copying large number of pics for backup.

I know its annoying to keep pressing the screen. I have heard of people playing a low quality 10 hour youtube video to keep it on.

Could possibly work for you.

[Needfuldoer]

Run a portable FTP server on the Windows PC, then upload the file using an FTP client on the iPhone. That's basically the same as uploading to a cloud service, but without the middleman. The transfer speed won't be constrained by your Internet connection.

 

I use this one for transferring files to ancient PCs:

https://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/quick__n_easy_ftp_server.html

[thrasher_565]

new phones dont alow you to transfer files from phone to pc... and most likely you have to use a apple app and sync there.

back when the ipod was a thing it was a pita to get files off... and 3rd part software was sus...

but like other said try upload it to youtube and re download it. phones theses days want you to log in to a cloud to transfer it... so they can make a copy of it an archive it. posbly used for ai.

 

i got a newer androde phone and was like can i transfer files to is by usb...nop. i had to but and type c to micro sc or put the sd in the phone... makes me want to go to the pawn shop to find a phone to do just that... and you cant buy cameras any more ether... anyway my rant...

 

anyway i just got 2 of the same phone i had the i no i can transfer from usb thow the camera suxs nuts...

Edited February 6 by thrasher_565

[Mihle]

10 hours ago, Hinjima said:

You could always upload the video privately to Youtube then download the video through a Youtube download website.

There is probably an easier way now but I remember back with my 1st gen iPod I couldn't get my MP3 files over to the PC without using a 3rd party program.

I dont own an iPhone, just spitting an idea

Uploading to YouTube and downloading ot again do kill the quality tho.

 

I would rather upload it to some kind of cloud service and then downloading it again.

[LAwLz]

What says of transferring the file have you tried already that resulted in timeouts, incomplete files or lower quality files? 

[Avocado Diaboli]

If you have enough space on iCloud, you can just store the video there and download it by logging into https://www.icloud.com/ from your PC and download it from there. It should give you the original quality version. I tested it by recording a short video, transferring the file by directly uploading it to my own storage and by downloading it from iCloud. The files are identical.

[Kisai]

12 hours ago, BadCookies said:

So what happened was,  I couldn’t find the battery charger for my camera and ended up with an hour 15min interview on an iPhone 12 Pro Max. The video is 9.35 GB and no matter what I try the transfer either times out or arrives at a much much lower video quality when attempting to move to my Windows PC for editing. I am able to take 5-10 min sections of the video and move them but not the full thing. Does anyone know a fix for this or am I going to have to cut up the video on the phone and put it back together on the PC?

USB, the iPhone will treat it as a file.

 

2 hours ago, thrasher_565 said:

new phones dont alow you to transfer files from phone to pc... and most likely you have to use a apple app and sync there.

 

Nope wrong. Phones have to be put in a "USB drive" mode, particuarly on Android, and not "media player mode" or other options.

 

Basically when you plug in any phone, the computer asks the device what it is, and it responds back with "I'm a hard drive", "I'm a media player", "I'm a toaster", etc. Or somethings it's a "charge only" cable and doesn't communicate at all.

 

Either way, to use the iphone correctly, you must have iTunes (not AppleTV) installed on the Windows PC. "Internal Storage" will appear when you click on the iphone, and from there it's like any other camera storage

 

If the quality is bad, it's because you didn't record it in a high quality mode.

 

 

At any rate, while Apple touts the iPhone as a great camera, it's really not a replacement for a camcorder or a photography DSLR.