No way to wirelessly sync recorded video?

[Small White Car]

For us, this is perfect, but what would have been better is if you could sync multiple Photo Streams to a single iPhoto/Aperture library. That way each family member could have their own iCloud account, and you choose whose streams to sync.

Obviously this won't be suitable for everyone, but so far I can't think of a better way of doing it and it works for us.

Turn on Photosteram and 'Find My Phone' on the shared account. Turn everything else off.

Then add a second, personal iCloud account to each phone and sync everything else through that.

Share the stuff you want and not the stuff you don't.

 

[big samm]

It only makes sense that we can't sync videos over wifi because it would take a tremendous amount of time since the videos are all in 1080p. Same with photo stream that can't sync videos because the files are just too large!

 

[iStrat]

It only makes sense that we can't sync videos over wifi because it would take a tremendous amount of time since the videos are all in 1080p. Same with photo stream that can't sync videos because the files are just too large!

What? WiFi is plenty fast to transfer large amounts of data, like 1080p video, especially 802.11n, which the 4 and 4S have. That is certainly not why we don't currently have this capability. Remember, 10 gigs of music and 10 gigs of video take the same time to transfer. It's like the old "which is heavier, 10 pounds of bricks or 10 pounds of feathers" thing.

I think (and hope) we'll soon get an update to iPhoto that allows wirelessly-connected iOS devices to show up just as if they were plugged in via USB, like in iTunes, and then we'll also hopefully get the capability to automate the transfer process when the device is charging.

 

[seang]

How's this for you: I'm NOT USING PHOTOSTREAM because I don't have iCloud set up. I don't have iCloud set up because I'm one of those folks who has an iPhone, a wife with her own iPhone, and a shared Macbook that we both use. That Macbook has one iTunes and one iPhoto library. All of our pictures go in there.

I thought wifi sync would do what USB sync does: back up my phone, sync apps and music, and upload photos from either of our phones into OUR iPhoto. Apparently not.

The way to get around this is to setup a separate Login in your wife's Macbook - it creates separate libraries for everything, like iTunes and such. Then, you'd just have to login to your account on the Macbook and voila it would do a wireless sync.

I do this all the time with my wife's Macbook.

As far as syncing up to separate photo streams, I'm sure there's a way to do that on the backend of Lion, otherwise you can share them via iPhone Bluetooth Share App or similar.