3 Ways to Add Movies to iPad

"How do I add movies onto my ipad? - How do I take movies off my computer and add movies to ipad so that i could watch movies on ipad during the air journey." - by Echo on Apple Support Communities.

Many iPad users would come across questions like "how to download movies to ipad" and "how to put movies to ipad". Actually, this is not even a question for all iPad users. Not to mention iTunes, which is the default iOS data transfer and manager software app from Apple, there are other solutions to help you put movies to iPad with ease, like email and 3rd-party iPad data transfer app. This post would show you how to transfer movie to iPad in different ways.

Solution 1: Transfer movie to iPad via iTunes

Apple has provided iTunes as the iOS data transfer and manager station. That means you could transfer movies to iPad with iTunes. The below steps would show you how to add movies to iPad via iTunes:

1. Open your iTunes and connect your iPad to computer via USB cable.
2. On iTunes, click "File > Add file to Library" option to browse and import movies to iTunes.
3. Afterwards, click the iPad icon on the sub-menu bar.
4. Open "iPad > Settings > Movies" tab successively.
5. On the right panel, check "Sync Movies" option and then choose the movies you want to transfer to iPad.
6. After choosing target movies, click the "Apply" button on the bottom right corner to start syncing movies to iPad.
7. Then you only need to wait for the synchronization complete. Disconnect your iPad with computer and then play movies on iPad freely.

Solution 2: Add movie to iPad via email

Besides using iTunes to transfer movies to iPad from computer, you could also use email to put movies to iPad for free. It would be better if you get 2 email accounts. The below steps would show you how to transfer movie to iPad via email. 

1. On your computer, log in with email account A. 
2. Create a new mail with email account B as receipt. 
3. Add your movie as attachment to the new mail.
4. Send the attachment from email account A to B.
5. On you iPad, log in with email account B.
6. Open the mail from email account A and open the attachment.
7. Then you are able to save the attached movie to iPad.

Solution 3: Transfer movie to iPad via iTransfer

Additionally, you could use 3rd-party iPad data transfer app to transfer movie to iPad. iTransfer is one of the top-rated iPad data transfer software apps you could use to realize movie transferring to iPad from computer. It is a professional iOS data transfer program that could transfer data and file between iOS devices, iTunes and computer. The below steps would show you how to transfer movie to iPad off computer. 

1. Connect your iPad with computer and then launch this iTransfer software.
2. On the left side bar, successively open "iPad > LIBRARY > Movies" tab.
3. On the right panel, click the "File > Add > Add File/Add Folder" option to browse and add movies to iPad from local drive.
4. Upon loading, iTransfer would start to transfer movie to iPad from computer immediately. You only need to wait for the transferring complete.

Conclusion: 

All the 3 methods mentioned above could help you easily add movies to iPad from computer. If you choose iTunes to transfer movie to iPad, the existing videos and movies on your iPad would be erased. To transfer movie to iPad via email, you need to make sure that the Internet connection is well enough, and sometimes you need to make sure that the movie size is beyond the limitation of mail service. iTransfer has no limitations and restricts. It won't erase the existing video library, and you don't worry about the network connection (since it doesn't require Internet connection) and file size.