Is there any way to sync books and movies to 2 devices, Is there any way to sync books and movies to 2 devices

Question

My girlfriend has a iphone 5C and an ipad air, both with ios 7.0.4
She cant use itunes, so its up to me to sync all her content.  I am an IT expert with 25 years experience, and have developed iphone and android apps.
Howvever, I find Itunes and apple devices almost impossible to use. 
Here is the current problem.
After about 4 hours and a lot of googling I manged to sync our kids movies and her ebooks and pdfs to her Ipad.
Now Im trying to do the same thing with the iphone.  however, when I drag the same movie from th elibraryI dragged to the ipad to the iphone, I just get a red no-entry sign.
No errors, no warnings.
Same with books, which I had put on her old iphone, so I know the format is good.
so how to get content in the ipad onto iphone is the problem.
I installed VLC on the ipad, and was able to push content to that using the http upload feature.
But I cant install VLC on the iphone. I can find it in itunes, but it doesnt offer me the install button, and it is not already installed (no icon). So gave up with that approach.
I made the mistake of enabling icould on the iphone, which then gave my partner error messages every time she used it saying it was full with her photos.  I have since disabled icould on all devices.
Any other ideas for getting content onto an iphone?  Both devices use the same itunes account.  We are only talking 4 kids movies and about 5 books.

Answer 1

I'm not clear on what it is you're doing. If you mean that you're trying to drag-copy a movie or other content directly from your computer's library folder to the iPhone, then except for photos you can't. You can only sync via iTunes, so all the content you wish to sync must be in iTunes. If the content isn't on the computer now, you need to sync the iPad to the computer so you get the content from the iPad into iTunes, and from there you can sync it to the iPhone. Or you can do it through iCloud at least for some content. See:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2109
and
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386
Perhaps if you describe more completely what sort of movies (such as where they came from) you're trying to sync and exactly how you've been trying to go about it, we can be more precise in our advice.
Regards.