I found an easy way to transfer a photo from my Droid X to the iPad 2 is to send it to my email. Then save it to the Camera Roll. Might not be practical to transfer a number of photos.
Video's have to be in mpg4 format. Get Micro Video Converter a free program, put it on a Mac computer for best results. Convert your Video's to the iPad in program menu. Then plug your iPad into computer run the video and Syn. It to iPad.