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

The Classic team continues to work on providing support in a future version.  

I do hope they will get on with this.  As of 8.3.1 Lightroom Classic (on Mac) is still in the embarrassing mess of throwing a meaningless error message when we import H.265 videos from a DJI Mavic 2 Pro, one of the most popular drone cameras for professional users.  We can import the raw stills but not the raw video.  This is a complete pain for our workflow.

The Classic team continues to work on providing support in a future version.  

I do hope they will get on with this.  As of 8.3.1 Lightroom Classic (on Mac) is still in the embarrassing mess of throwing a meaningless error message when we import H.265 videos from a DJI Mavic 2 Pro, one of the most popular drone cameras for professional users.  We can import the raw stills but not the raw video.  This is a complete pain for our workflow.

Thanks for that info.

> Why bother doing video with HEVC?
well one reason is because some devices will only write HEVC. For example, the DJI Mavic 2 Pro, probably the most popular high end drone for landscape photography, will only write this format if you want to use DLOG (video equivalent of raw) as most professionals will do.

Why bother doing video with HEVC? I imported all the HEVC video I'd shot on my phone using Lightroom Mobile and the files arrived in my catalogue on Windows with blank thumbnails. When Lightroom eventually reads them, great, but for now at least they are managed in the catalogue. But then I switched my phone to non-HEVC formats. I can wait, and wait and wait for Adobe....

Those "competing" apps are mostly just raw converters. It's not as if Lightroom is good at editing video but they can't do anything at all, not even catalogue.

Thank you for responding. I’ve been reading a lot of mutinous posts about Lightroom lately. I think more communication like this will help.

Effective with Lightroom Desktop version 2.3 uses the native OS functionality for video playback. If you are a Lightroom Desktop user - version 2.3 and later versions yet to be released, make certain you've installed the Codec from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/hevc-video-extensions/9nmzlz57r3t7?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

Please note that this codec does not affect Lightroom Classic - which does not yet have HEVC (H.265) support.  The Classic team continues to work on providing support in a future version.  Unfortunately I have no ETA to share at this time. 

As far as I know none of the apps listed in the article support video?
Maybe I wasn't clear what I meant; if LR does not support my video files, video support is no longer a competitive advantage of LR over other non-video supporting apps.

I've started syncing all my mobile generated content to OneDrive and to Google Photos, and I synced my entire video and image catalog to Google Photos using the Google Backup and Sync desktop app. I get 1TB of original file storage space on OneDrive via my Office Home subscription, and I get unlimited "high res" storage in Google Photos for free. Both OneDrive and Google Photos have no issues with any of my (HEIC, HEVC, MTS, MP4, DNG, RW2, NEF, etc) image or video formats, automatically tags based on image recognition, allows me to tag, automatically builds albums, has ok editing.
Yes, nothing like LR in image editing features, but my requirements for cataloging video was never editing, just archiving and cataloging. So maybe I don't need LR for video any more, maybe one day I will not need LR for any cataloging, just occasionally a RAW image editor.

Please do let us know which one of those apps supports your video files then Pieter.

I know, but if LR if does not support my video files, I may just as well look elsewhere to other apps.