How To Install iMovie on Your iPad 1

IMovie will run on your old, slow, bloated iPad as well as the shiny new one

It is possible to install the new iPad 2-only iMovie on the original iPad. You don?t need to jailbreak, and the app runs perfectly well, but there is one big problem which may annoy you into uninstalling it. Read on to find out how.

The App Store checks your hardware and stops you from downloading iMove with an unsupported iDevice. Get around this by downloading iMove using iTunes on your computer. Then you need to download a piece of software from Apple called the iPhone Configuration Utility. There are versions for Mac and PC.

Next, plug in your iPad and wait for it to finish syncing with iTunes. Launch the iPhone Configuration Utility and pick the ?Application? tab at left. Then click ?Add? at the top of the window and navigate to the newly downloaded iMovie app (inside the Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications folder on a Mac).

Adding the iMovie app to the iPhone Configuration Utility

Once added, you?ll need to actually install it on your iPad. To do this, click on the name of your iPad in the left column and then select the ?Applications? tab. Scroll through the list of apps until you get to iMovie. Then click the ?Install? button next to it (the screenshot shows it already installed, as I have already installed it on my own iPad).

Installing...

And that?s it. You can now fire up iMovie and start editing. Any compatible video already in your Photos app will show up, and everything seem to run plenty quick enough.

But there?s one problem. Next time you sync the iPad with iTunes, you get this error message:

This annoying box will pop up every time you sync

Authorizing doesn?t help. You just get sent back to this warning after inputting your password. Clicking ?Don?t authorize? will delete iMove from your iPad. Clicking cancel is the one you want. Cancel and iMovie stays.

It appears that this warning only applies to iMovie. I have updated other apps on my iPad since installing iMovie, and that went fine. Syncing then copied those new apps back to the iPad. I imagine it may be possible to get rid of this warning using provisioning profiles, but for now just clicking ?cancel? once on each sync works fine.

One final note: Getting footage into iMovie is absurdly complicated. If you have an iPhone, you can shoot movies and import them using the camera connection kit. But if you have a camera that shoots iPad-compatible movies, you?re out of luck. You may be able to view the clip in the Photos app, but it doesn?t show up in the source list of iMovie. Or it does. It just depends on which camera you are using.

It?s probably better to run iMovie on the iPad 2, complete with guaranteed-compatible camera, but if you?re happy to do a little hacking, then your iPad 1 is certainly up to the job.

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