How do I get personal movies onto my iPad without using iTunes

Hi,
I have several "movies" - like ones my kids made using iMovie on their their ipods, clips of my kids playing their sports, and other non-tradional films that i would like to keep and add or subtract to my liking from my iPad (3rd Gen). In iTunes i have pretty much "cut the cord" - the only items that synch with itunes are the videos that I mentioned (hollywood videos I purchse through iTunes I access through the iCloud now) and photos with Aperture. I really dont want - or need to synch with iTunes anymore - the user experience is so wonderful going with just the iCloud and my Dropbox. But I really want the freeedom to add a personal video to my iPad w/o having to synch - it takes FOREVER and always has a glitch of some sort.
In case your thinking to just use the dropbox - I know that... but it is internet dependant then - and play back is not what i'd call "Retina worthy" - and you can't save Drpbox video to the iPad's HD.
Does anyone have another method that is working for them??
I love being "bareback" with the iPad and don't want to go backwards.
Thanks in advance!

UPDATED
Background: You can transfer photos and movies made on your camera and recorded to an SD card directly into your iPad using an Apple Lightning SD Card Camera Reader. So all you have to do is convince your iPad that the SD card with your other movies (ripped DVDs etc) came from your camera.
1. Your movies need to be in a format your iPad will read - .mp4 or .mov work well. For DVDs, you need to rip it into .mp4 files - I use Xilisoft DVD to iPad Converter which works well.
2. Store these files someplace convenient on your hard drive.
3. Rename the .mp4 files so they have EXACTLY 8 characters in the file name without any spaces (digital cameras create 8 digit file names).
4. Format your SD card folder structure so that to your iPad, it looks like it came straight out of your digital camera. The easiest way to do this, is to format the SD card in your camera and then take a single photo on the card.
5. Attach you SD card to your computer (via a direct SD slot or a USB adaptor) and navigate through the SD card's folder structure to find the photo to took on your camera.
6. Copy all the video files that you want to watch on your iPad to the SAME location as the photo file.
7. Eject the SD card and insert it into your Apple Lightning SD Card Camera Reader and it into your iPad.
8. Go to the "Photos" icon app (not the Videos icon app) and follow the usual transfer instructions from the iOS.
Note that unlike movies in the Videos app from iTunes, the video files loaded this way appear only as a video icon with the time length of the file. ie No files names are visible, therefore you may need to write a short note identifying each file name according to its play time.

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