Chapter 8
iPad Videography
IN THIS CHAPTER
Finding and playing videos
Capturing, editing, and deleting video on your iPad
Facing up to FaceTime
Picture this scene: The smell of popcorn permeates the room as you and your family congregate to watch the latest Hollywood blockbuster. A motion picture soundtrack swells up. The images on the screen are stunning. And all eyes are fixed on the iPad.
Okay, here comes the reality check. The iPad is not going to replace a wall-sized high-definition television as the centerpiece of your home theater, even if you have the comparatively mammoth 12.9-inch Retina display on the larger model iPad Pro. Then again, it's going to take a 4K TV to get a higher resolution in your living room than the gorgeous Retina displays on third-generation and later iPads and iPad Pros. Even the displays in the older iPad 2 look terrific. And now that the more recent iPad minis have also graduated to a Retina display, even a small-screen iPad is going to grab your attention.
Meantime, as you will discover, you can watch material that originates on the iPad on the bigger screen TV, too.
Bottom line: No matter which iPad you own, watching movies and other videos on ...
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