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

LR 7.4 added support for HEIF / HEVC images (for which Apple uses the .heic extension). But LR doesn't yet support HEVC video:

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/whats-new-in-lightroom-classic-74/

What is the status of this? I'm having issues importing mp4 files encoded with HEVC on a GoPro Hero 6 Black into LR 7.4 on newest MacOS release - tells me the video files have no frames. Videos can be imported if I convert them to H.264 with Quicktime.

This has gone on too long!  Lightroom (all versions) should work with HEIF by now.  Given the millions of cameras that use it it's inexcusable LR doesn't.

Well, I just ran into this too after trying to import my photos and videos from the iPhone X that I've been using since last October.  I back up to Google Photos, so I had no need to import into Lightroom until now, but I now discovered that it won't import my photos OR videos.  Errors out on both.

So I imported them into Apple Photos on my Mac and that worked fine, but now I have to manage separate libraries and have to convert my media to a format Lightroom will read if I want them in there.  The suggestion to switch to a compatible format on my iPhone is not acceptable because 1) that does nothing to solve my problem of being unable to import the 1500 photos and videos I've taken since last October, and 2) to be able to shoot in 4k/60fps on the iPhone X, you MUST use the high efficiency codec (you can't use the compatible version).

It has now been 6 months since the iPhone X came out and iOS started using the HEIF/HEVC formats and Adobe still hasn't released an update for Lightroom Classic to support them.

If no update comes soon, I will be canceling my Photography subscription because it will be useless to me.

Hi Phil,

HEVC / H.265 video is not supported at this time. I have merged your post with this thread so it gets counted as another vote for this feature.

My Phantom 4 Pro drone captures video in H.265; however, I am unable to open the video file in Lightroom cc.  Most H.265 video files can be opened in LR, but apparently those from my P4P drone are not compatible; I get an error message.  H.264 video files from the drone open ok in LR, just not the H.265.  Please help.

Previously Adobe said they would not be abandoning or deprecating Lightroom Classic, yet the long wait on this issue looks to the average user as though Adobe is not keeping the support in Lightroom Classic on par with Lightroom CC. Can someone from Adobe please advise us users whether this is just a feature you are still working on but for some technical reason have had to delay to months after the Lightroom CC release, or if the company stance about continuing to update Lightroom has changed and power users should be looking for a different full featured photo manager/editor that will stay current with new file formats? Thanks.

Uhg.  Just ran into this problem and found this thread.  I have months of videos I cannot import.  Please add support Adobe!

"Does that work with your installation of LR 7?" 

Sorry, I should have qualified that -- some have reported that they can import the video but it doesn't play.  (See above.) I haven't tested it personally.