How do the Live photos from my IPhone get stored in Photos (Catalina 10.15.6) on my Mac? It seems like a jpeg copy gets stored as well as the same one in the HEIC format. This looks like lots of duplicates. How are other people thinking about storing these Live photos. I use Live sparingly but I take lots of photographs.
Mac mini, macOS 10.15
When you import Live Photos from your iPhone to Photos, they should be stored as a pair of a high resolution still frame, a HEIC file plus a video component, typically a MOV file in the HEVC format.
Where are you seeing the duplicates as JPEG and HEIC? I. the Info in Photos, or are you using a duplicate detector, or are you looking into the Photos Library in the Finder`
When you import Live Photos from your iPhone to Photos, they should be stored as a pair of a high resolution still frame, a HEIC file plus a video component, typically a MOV file in the HEVC format.
Where are you seeing the duplicates as JPEG and HEIC? I. the Info in Photos, or are you using a duplicate detector, or are you looking into the Photos Library in the Finder`
Andrea, as your Mac is using macOS 10.15, compatible with HEIC, I would change from the Settings Camera from "Automatic" to "Keep originals". Then you will avoid the conversion and only get HEIC. It will be better for the quality. Do the JPEGs have an "E" behind the image number? Then it may be edited versions.
Some background reading: Implications of shooting HEIF on the iPhone or iPad and How to Control the Format - Apple Community
Léonie,
Very interesting, first let me answer your questions:
Is there anything else I should know about Live photos?
Thanks,
Andrea
I am moving photos from my iPhone via File>import in Photos with a cable connection. What would be better? I am not using iCloud Photos since I have a very large photo library of 70,000 photos. I am currently backing up my photo library to a hard drive. I have so many photos partly because my Mac was the iTunes Mac (during the iTunes days) for my family of 5 and everyone used my computer to back up their iPhones including all their photos every time. As a result, I have lots of duplicates and bad photos, taken by my children, which they have confirmed, they no longer want now there are in their 20s. Many of these photos are goofy, shaky, upside down photos that can easily be eliminated. As I worked through my Photo library, that is what has lead me to discover this issue of having multiples of the same photo in both the jpeg format and HEIC format.
How are you moving photos (in general) from your iPhone to your Mac?
iCloud Photos?
My Photo Stream?
File > Import in Photos with a cable connection?
Image Capture?
something else?
Live Photos stored on my Mac
