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miccolis
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4 months ago
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Can we download movie part of a Live photo?

I'm really happy that Dropbox now supports live photos. Having them automatically upload from my iPhone and be visible on dropbox.com is working great! What I'm not seeing is how I can get the movi...
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    zacw
    4 months ago

    The HEIC file contains the video internally (as a video atom). The easiest way to extract it is using `exiftool`. With a file named `example.heic` you can extract the video using:

    exiftool -b -MotionPhotoVideo example.heic >video.mov

    This will produce a video.mov next to the file.

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Jay
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4 months ago

Hi miccolis, thanks for messaging the Community.

Are you able to see the movie file version of the Live photo on the Dropbox site, or just the heic file?

Any other info or screenshots would be helpful!

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