Syncing pics and video question

Question

I am using the new i phone 4 and are starting to get in to i movie and the camera on the phone. I have both a I mac at work and at home.
When I sync up to either machine the camera wants to sync with that machine which in essence calls it to load all the pics from that machines I photo to my phone. What I am more interested in doing is telling the I phone which pics to put on that machine in essence syncing my phone to the machine not the other way around.
What I really want to do also is be able to pick and choose which photos from my phone that I want to import and which that I do not..Is that possible! i.e. i would like to keep some videos on my phone as I edit them in I movie for my I phone...Is there a way to dump some of my camera roll into I photo and keep some of it. Please advise.
Bonus Question: My wife has an I phone and she and I are sharing the same I mac at home...Is there a way that we can set up individual I photo files as to keep our video and pics separate in I photo.

Answer 1

I was wondering this same thing. And I know what the OP is talking about. As there are ways to do what he is talking about, (work arounds) - it still isn't just plain cut and dry like it should be. I have no clue why this great phone has so many little downsides that it doesn't need to have.
First off, this "syncing" name to do what has been done over years on other devices which is called "transferring files" or "Import" and "Export" is just stupid, and on top of that completely limiting.
What I and the OP would like to do, and have it be like is more like, when I plug in my iPhone I don't want to have to "sync" crap, what I want to do is have it operate more like a mini firewire drive has been plugged into my computer. I would like to take certain things off my iPhone, leaving other things, and take ONLY certain things off my computer and put them into my iPhone. Be able to delete anything from my iPhone I want and vice versa.
This "syncing" crap is ridiculous. I mean, I found work arounds, but its stupid to have to do that. IE: If I want to delete photos from my iPhone that I got from my computer, I can't do it !! I simply can not go to my phone and check photos to delete and delete them.. HA !! Is that ridiculous or what ? What I have to do is "sync" a empty folder to it, then it wipes it out. BUT its limiting because, what if I only want to delete a few, and keep some others ? Well, yes, I have to then create a "sync" folder with them photos I want to keep, but none others, then sync it, and there it is. Its totally redundant and stupid and there is no reason for it.
That is alot of steps to just do what normally should be able to be done. Seriously what is Steve Jobs thinking with some of these things ?
This SAME thing applies to ringtones I made and got into my iPhone. I can not delete them !! I have to use the above process to accomplish this as well.
What we want, and the way it should be is more of a "import" and "export" thing. NOT this "sync" idea. Its stupid. It takes too much control over my iPhone and files, and I want to be in complete control of my iPhone and files. I paid for it, why not ?.
This also applies to the music, and just all "syncing" cases with this iPhone and iTunes. It causes accidental complete erasures of your carefully compiled files and vice versa. It is completely to "do it all or nothing at all" type of thing. Steve Jobs swears I want my whole music library on my iPhone at all times. Or all my photos, and then he wants to take control of them.
I say get rid of "Sync" and give me "Import" and "Export" of my personally created files along with complete control of what I want to keep where and what I don't. JUST like a mini firewire drive was attached and how that works. It would be SOOOOO much more simple. And make sooooo much more sense. Then have premade tags of any thing we purchased and was copywriten that makes those things NOT be able to be transfered around without syncing and it taking control like it does now so it can't be anywhere but with who purchased it.