P: Please support HEVC (H.265) video support for Windows

HEVC support is coming soon. As I mentioned earlier, I cannot discuss release schedules. Please be patient. 

As for your other comments, you are absolutely correct that Lr CC and Lr Classic do not support the same level of syncing capabilities. Two primary differences are: 1) Classic does not upload originals, so what you get on the other devices are downsized proxies 2) Classic does not sync Keywords, in addition to other metadata.  

Lr Classic was built and architected ~10 years ago as the "Truth is on the desktop", whereas Lr CC was built from the ground up as a "truth in the cloud" application. This is why Lr CC can sync everything across devices as a native solution (there is one catalog that is managed in the cloud). In the case of Lr Classic, there are technical and design challenges to support the same level of syncing that Lr CC has today.

Lr Classic is not being abandoned (you can see this by the frequent releases that we still put out) but it is true that Lr Classic will not have the same fidelity in terms of syncing as the native sync solution provided by Lr CC. 

If a native syncing solution across devices is the primary need for customers, then Lr CC is definitely the recommend solution for this need. Migrating a catalog from Lr Classic to Lr CC is the way to go to enable this, and keywords will be migrated along with the rest of the metadata, original files, etc. 

I hope this helps. 

Barry

Unless I am mistaken this is still a problem almost a YEAR after Apple moved to HEVC video as the default.  The current correct answer seems to be to downgrade the video codec so as to "avoid the issue". Surely not a real solution to the problem. 

Barry I would appreciate seeing a timely update to fix this HEVC issue. 

I used to always recommend Lightroom to others looking to manage their photos, but now I will not. In reality it is a bundle of incoherent and incompatible software programs. For example keywords entered in CC will not sync to Classic - Why not?? Because Adobe can't or doesn't want to provide the functionality. So it is pointless using an iPad as part of workflow when traveling to categorize photos and have them seamlessly appear on the desktop.

It seems that Adobe is abondoning LightRoom Classic [software originally developed in close cooperation with real photographers] in favor of its CC software. The workflow in the cloud based software just does not suit this photographer and I suspect many others. I already pay the subscription but choose to use Classic because of the thousands of photos I have - all keyworded and cataloged. As I understand it if I move to CC all these keywords are lost!!

It is concerning that having been a loyal Lightroom user since its earliest days I may be forced to consider some alternative solution. With all the workarounds now imposed as a result of Adobe's failure to keep Lightroom Classic both up to date [see the above HEVC issue] AND consistent with CC [keywords not compatible between CC & Classic] it is no longer the sweet and elegant program which was a pleasure to use.

We're not allowed to discuss release schedules but I will pass your feedback on to the team. 

When do you expect that future release or update to come out Barry? The import process from panasonic's HC-X1 4k camera with .MP4 file extensions also has the same issue. Sometimes you import serveral files and some files don't get imported and when they do some show the ! icon with the legend that says you wont be able to make adjustments. Now imagine importing a 256 gB card. It takes over 10 hours just to import when you import by batches with different folder locations and keyword tags.  Now that another topic... It would be nice to have the option of selecting groups of photos or videos and determining to which folder each group would go to and their respective keyword tags. That would save a lot of time rather than clicking import each time and waiting for thousands of photos to render minimally, then when the new photos option is selected it takes time for them to dissapear... I think that would be a plus too. 

Great thanks Barry!

We are aware of this limitation in the Lr Classic and Lr CC products and are working towards a solution in a future release. Thank you for your patience. 

Barry

Neither CC nor Classic currently support HEVC video. I didn't find a similar feature request for CC, so I just modified the title and the topic's categories to include CC as well.

The title mentions "Classic". Does that mean Lightroom CC does support HEVC already, or does the feature request include CC too or should we create a new post for adding HEVC to CC?

Perhaps the Adobe Lightroom development team could talk to the Adobe Media Encoder CC team? I have just installed the latter, as a test, and it seems to be more than capable at reading H.265 video files (recorded on my iPhone 😎 and then encoding them to other formats. Surely this is just a case of the Lightroom team reusing a software object... come on Adobe, this can't be a huge development...

Ah, I see, thx for the info I thought support for it has already been added.