How To Play Camera Video & Picture Files From An SD Card On Your iPad Pro - USB-C To SD Card Reader

Using this inexpensive USB C to SD card reader by KiWiBiRD you can play video files and pictures from the SD card from your camera, mirrorless, DSLR and camcorder on your iPad Pro.
This basically allows you to use your iPad Pro as a monitor for previewing your camera video files when you are out and about.
While I'm using an iPad Pro for this example, you can do the exact same thing using any iPad that has got a USB C interface.
For this example I'm using XAVC S video files and JPG picture files from my Sony camera. These are 4K files that use a bit rate of 100Mb/s and the card reader has no problems with the bit rate and playing the files.
You can of course use other cameras and video codecs as long as you have an appropriate player on your iPad that will read the codecs of the video files.
While the maximum speed of this reader is only 60Mb/s, it is easily fast enough to play these high bit rate 4K video files, as is seen in the video.
Reading and writing large files to and from your iPad using this SD card reader will be somewhat slow compared to other faster and more expensive card readers. As I suspect that this card reader is using USB 2 for its transfer speed. However, for the price of this card reader and the task shown in the video, I think this SD card reader by KiWiBiRD is excellent value for money.
You can also use this USB C to SD card reader with many other devices that support USB C.
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[@TonesAdventuresHD]

Great little SD card reader! Good demo!

[@DavidHarry]

Alright, Tone. For the money, it's a no brainer. You'd need a faster reader for transferring large files but just for playing and checking, this one is all you'd need. Cheers, Dave.

[@yehoshuanathaniel573]

Thanks for the information

[@DavidHarry]

Hi. You are very welcome 👍 Cheers, Dave.

[@teddycheung9552]

thank you so much for the clip so much help

[@DavidHarry]

Hi. You are very welcome 👍 Cheers, Dave.

[@Leslee_Lane]

Do they have one for the lightning connector?

[@LiveFitMagazine]

Great. Thanks for the help. I was importing via Photos but the video files weren’t showing up.

[@DavidHarry]

Hi. There are certain folders and files that Apple don't allow you to get access to, even with their own file browser. I'm not sure why the is????? Cheers, Dave.

[@EvetheMedium]

this is not working for me after iOS 16.1 update do you know how to fix it? thank you

[@MrSuperO1]

Hey, great video! If I wanted could I download films onto my sd card and connect via the port, can I then play this offline on my iPad mini without using any built in iPad mini storage?

[@DavidHarry]

Yes.

[@KaioshinAemi]

I wish i can edit the video in iMovie without having to copy the video files to iMovie App

[@DavidHarry]

Have you tried LumaFusion? It can directly edit video files from any external storage device that you've got connected to your iPad, so no need to import the files if you don't need to or want to. Cheers, Dave.

[@KaioshinAemi]

@@DavidHarry yes I do have Lumafusion and I’ve used it many times but I always go back to iMovie because of the simplicity. I don’t need professional software for just head talking video. I don’t understand why? iPhone and ipad are more than powerful enough to have this simple feature.