One of the great new features of iPhoto and iOS 5 is the ability to get any picture you take transfered to any of your iCloud connected machines easily and quickly. I know it’s dramatically increased my productivity, just between taking screenshots and transferring them to my desktop.

But the other day, I pulled up iPhoto to do a transfer and noticed that my videos weren’t there. None of them were, actually, and that struck me as odd. I couldn’t figure out how to import them using iCloud, and it pissed me off.

Turns out that your only option — or at least the only one I can figure out — is to plug in your iPhone and import the videos. If you email or message the video, the result is compressed beyond the 1080P promised, making it look horrible, and kind of defeating the purpose of having that fancy iPhone 4S camera.

I get why Apple is doing this, it’s got to save tons of bandwidth and space in the process, but it sure seems like a step backwards from a “PC Free” iPhone.