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Can't even import home videos anymore
Oct. 20th, 2024 08:32 pmGetting this recording was difficult enough. I spent a month struggling to get through it without my hands slipping on the black keys, and the pollen didn't help either. I was mildly shocked when I managed this one this morning.
This evening, after deciding to post it, I plugged the iPad in to upload it. And discovered Microsoft is now importing all Apple device videos as a certain kind of MOV file, demanding you pay for the codex for watch them, and also demanding you form the new Microsoft accounts I've been resisting dealing with. I wasn't even sure the video I needed had been successfully imported either. I promptly started looking at other options for getting it onto this computer, and eventually the iCloud link I directed the iPad to email to me showed up, and I was able to download it, still in MP4 format. Not that Apple made this at all easy either.
This evening, after deciding to post it, I plugged the iPad in to upload it. And discovered Microsoft is now importing all Apple device videos as a certain kind of MOV file, demanding you pay for the codex for watch them, and also demanding you form the new Microsoft accounts I've been resisting dealing with. I wasn't even sure the video I needed had been successfully imported either. I promptly started looking at other options for getting it onto this computer, and eventually the iCloud link I directed the iPad to email to me showed up, and I was able to download it, still in MP4 format. Not that Apple made this at all easy either.
