Request from my technologically challenged friend in Manhattan. I get a lot of the tech support calls but she’s an iPhone user and that’s one thing I can’t help her with. (I am a luddite with a flip phone).
They do a good job of recording high quality movies.
Now she needs to send a movie to a prospective employer. They don’t want to follow a link to YouTube, which is something she understands how to do, to upload a movie from iPhone to YouTube.
She has Dropbox and apparently there’s a way to “send” a movie to DropBox via iPhone (?) but she can’t get it to work and I’m clueless.
I have FTP-able space, such that if there were an obvious mechanism to FTP a file from an iPhone, I could accommodate it there long enough for the job folks to download it. But I don’t know how one would do that.
I don’t even understand the world of iPhones and iOS when it comes to the critters that would be called “files” on a real computer. They seem to lack file browsers or to provide any sense of file and folder hierarchy. (Never mind / kill the rant in its infancy).
She can “Share” the movie to email.
That will let her email it directly to whomever she wants.
She needs to make sure that “Mail Drop” is enabled for whatever email account she wants to use. If she uses her iCloud account, I think Mail Drop is turned on by default.
Mail Drop allows enormous attachments to be transparently emailed as downloads from a free, temporary storage location on iCloud.
I’d say the easiest way would be to connect the iPhone to a desktop or laptop computer via the USB cable. It should be accessible as a virtual drive from that computer (it will require a confirmation on the phone that access is given to the computer), and the video file with the clip is then retrievable from the folder structure of the phone. That is, at least, how I get my pictures and videos from my iPhoen to my Windows machine.
That’s not how it works under OS X.
The “Photos” app is used to manage photos and videos from the iPhone. The movie would get downloaded into Photos, and then she could “share” it from there. But, the process is the same, just with a few more steps. She can do everything she needs right from the iPhone.
Open your Dropbox app, find your video (allow Dropbox acces) and store it wherever.
Only thing that could give your friend trouble is that you start at the “wrong” end: Starting from the Video it is not possible to get a “send to Dropbox button” — starting in the Dropbox app it is quite easy.
But just so you know, by default your photos and videos you take with your iPhone are stored on iCloud.com. You use your AppleID to log on to iCloud.com (as far as I know you need to have an AppleID to have an iPhone). From iCloud.com you can access your photos and videos by going to “Photos.” From there you can select items to download to your computer. If this movie file is not a video she took with her phone and instead is a clip she’s got stored as a file on her phone under “Files” you could find it in “iCloud Drive” on iCloud.com.
You can click on a photo or video in iCloud.com/Photos and select the “Share” icon at the top right of the window to get a shareable link. You can send the link to a third party and they can view your file for a month.
It’s good to go on iCloud.com every so often and download your shit to your computer and clean it off so that there’s room to store more stuff you didn’t know you were storing on The Cloud but are kinda glad you did.
Also, Google Drive has an app onto which you can automatically store your photos and videos, just like iCloud.
But, both of those solutions are just like DropBox. iCloud just happens to be the default one you don’t have to set up. If your friend runs out of room on DropBox, she can use all 3. And also Amazon Photos (same deal).