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Upload Videos to iCloud with Video Stream App

iOS 5 has its own function called "Photo Stream" which is for photos sync with iCloud. Users can sync photos on different iOS devices with a same iCloud ID. However, Photo Stream has a disadvantage: Can't sync the video shoots. Users, especially iPhone 4S users, are complaining again and again: Why so high-quality mobiles have not the automatic synchronization feature, why they have to upload video shoots to iPad or Mac manually?

Actually, the reason is not unexpected, because the iPhone 4S shoot 1080p video takes up a lot of space, so Apple might not want iCloud users to feel the space is not enough, and therefore they haven't put video sync feature to the photo stream. Having said that, even upload videos to iCloud through Wi-Fi, a 5-minute 1080p video upload will take several minutes, then take a few minutes to download to all devices.

If you really need to video synchronization, you can refer to this third-party applications "Video Stream". Its purpose is to provide a iOS 5 users to synchronize the video and sync to the other side iCloud same iCloud account login device up. It means to shoot the film has reached "photo flow" as the photos in sync between the effect of each device.

If you really need to sync videos, you can use the third party app - Video Stream. Video Stream can help iOS 5 users upload videos to iCloud for sync.

Currently, Video Stream can be bought on App Store. The usage is very simple, you can load the Camera Roll to the app,or record videos with directly Video Stream built-in recording feature. Then the ap will upload videos to your iCloud account. Once uploaded, the videos will appear on other devices running Video Stream.

In addition, the uploaded videos will be compressed with Video Stream app. The app provides three choices: low-quality, medium quality, and high-quality.

In fact, Video Stream can not be regarded as a permanent solution to the iCloud. But at least, it can help users sync videos among multiple iOS devices, reduce the file size so as to reduce the upload time.

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