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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...
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.
zacw
Dropbox Engineer
Dropbox EngineerThe 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.
zacw thanks so much for the pointer - this is exactly what I'm looking for!
One follow up question - if I'm looking to migrate live photos into Dropbox from Google Photos, is there anything I'd need to do to preserve compatibility? ...or is this all standardized now and the Google Photos versions will just work?
- zacw
Although Google doesn't have any devices that support taking HEIC photos, the format we chose for Live Photos in HEIC seems to be supported by Google Photos and closely mirrors that of Samsung devices. It's likely intentional that it works in Google Photos. Unfortunately there's no real official standard; e.g., Apple does not have or use a single-file representation of Live Photos.
The most reliable way of importing into Google Photos is via their app which consumes from the Photos app. You can export Live Photos from the Dropbox app into Photos.app and it'll preserve the Live Photo status, too.
Ok, my goal is actually the other way around - now that Dropbox supports live photos I'd like to export all my photos from Google Photos and move them over into Dropbox. Any pointers on doing that are welcome.
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