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Any video edited with the iOS version of iMovie has to have originated on an iOS
device. You can't mix in footage shot with a digital camera or obtained elsewhere.
For more ambitious editing on the iPad mini, consider iMovie for iPad, a $4.99 app
(free to purchasers of new iOS 7 devices) that resembles a bare-bones version of iMovie for
Mac computers. Through iMovie, you can share your finished video on YouTube, Vimeo,
CNN iReport, and Facebook, or send your project to iTunes. And iMovie for iPad lets you
produce Hollywood-style movie trailers, just like on a Mac.
Sharing video
You can play back what you've just shot in portrait or landscape mode. And if the video is any good,
you'll likely want to share it with a wider audience. To do so, open the Camera Roll and tap the
thumbnail for the video in question. Tap the Action button and you can e-mail the video (if the video
file isn't too large), or send it as a Message (see Chapter 5 ). And there are many more options: You
can save it to iCloud, or share it in numerous other places, including Twitter, Facebook, Flickr,
YouTube, Vimeo, or (if a Chinese keyboard was enabled) the Chinese services Youku and Tudou.
You can also view your video as part of a slide show (see Chapter 9 ), or, if you have an Apple TV
box, dispatch it to a big-screen television via AirPlay.
Seeing Is Believing with FaceTime
We bet you can come up with a lengthy list of people you'd love to be able to eyeball in real time
from afar. Maybe it's your old college roommate. Maybe it's your old college sweetheart. And
maybe it's your grandparents, who've long since retired to warm climates somewhere.
That's the beauty of FaceTime, the video-chat app. FaceTime exploits the two cameras built into the
devices, each serving a different purpose. The front camera lets you talk face to face. The back cam-
era shows what you're seeing to the person you're talking to.
To take advantage of FaceTime, here's what you need:
Access to Wi-Fi or cellular: Andthe people you'retalking toneed Internet access, too.Onan
iOS device, you need Wi-Fi or a cellular connection. If you want to go with the cell connec-
tion, youneed at least a third-generation iPad running iOS 6.On a Mac, youneed an upstream
or downstream Internet connection of at least 128 Kbps. You also need at least a 1-Mbps up-
stream and downstream connection for HD-quality video calls.
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