Will there be support for HEIF format?

thefriendlybadger

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Jul 19, 2018 22:17

I really don't want to convert my .HEIC photos to JPG. Is there a way I can import HEIF photos?

Hatti

Contributor Location: Bonn, Germany Joined: Feb 21, 2017 15:54 Messages: 576 Offline

Jul 19, 2018 23:31

I really daubt, that there will be support in PD16. Maybe in PD17, but we will have to wait...

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BarryTheCrab

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Jul 20, 2018 20:27

Can you supply a sample or two? I can also add them to my website for future downloaders. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Jul 21, 2018 08:50

Hi Ian -

I use various photo management/editing applications, most of which will NOT import/open .HEIC or .HEIF files. These include Adobe Ps, Adobe Lr, Affinity Photo, ON1 Photo RAW 2018 & others. Microsoft Windows hasn't even caught up yet, so it's a bit much to expect that CyberLink will beat them to the punch!

There are very few apps I've found that can work with photos HEIF photos from iPad Pro & iPhone X with Apple's .HEIC extension.

I think, for the near future at least, converting to JPEG is going to be necessary for most applications.

Cheers - Tony
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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Jul 21, 2018 16:40

Further to above:

Barry - you can download some sample .HEIC files here and here.

Windows Photos & Photo Viewer will open .HEIC files only with Win10 1803 update & then only after installing Microsoft HEIF Image Extensions & HEVC Video Extensions.

Zoner Photo Studio X opens & edits .HEIC files & (in theory) exports in HEIF format. Export consistently fails here. Apowersoft Photo Viewer opens the files, but it's just a viewer.

Cheers - Tony
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