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September 29, 2015
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P: Support for importing Live Photos (iOS 9, iPhone 6s)

  • September 29, 2015
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Just got iphone 6s. One new feature is "Live Photos" which while taking a still picture also takes a 3 sec movie. When imported into Apple's Photos app each Live photo becomes 2 files, a movie file and a normal picture file that can be edited. In lightroom the imported Live photo file is only a movie file, which can"t be edited. Can this be changed in a future update so that importing also gives a normal still picture file and a movie file?

128 replies

Participating Frequently
March 9, 2017
No, not all are grean. I just thought this was one of the issues fixed in 6.9, since it was one of the problems in this thread.
Sunil_Bhaskaran
Inspiring
March 9, 2017
Michael,
Some of the mov files may ran into this issue. We are working on it.
Does it mean that all your mov files are displayed like this?

Thanks,
Sunil 
Participating Frequently
March 9, 2017
Installed 6.9, but I get some green mov-files when importing live photos.
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
March 7, 2017
Adobe released Lightroom 6.9/CC2015.9 today.

This issue should be corrected in this release. Please give it a try and let us know if you see any further issues. 

Complete information about this update can be found at the Lightroom Journal: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2017/03/lightroom-cc-2015-9-now-available.html

If you don’t see the update in your Creative Cloud App, you can use the kbsc [Cmd/Ctrl]+[Opt/Alt]+[ R ]  to refresh your app. If you are a perpetual license holder, you can access the update via Help>Updates...

Refer to this for any installation issues: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2013/06/keeping-lightroom-up-to-date.html#lrcc2015
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Participating Frequently
March 1, 2017
If you can view your photo files properly in any other software tha LR they should be safe. If not, stay on the safe side and keep them on the phone or copy them elsewhere.
Inspiring
March 1, 2017


 I've imported all photos into LR but have the same problem as others have mentioned (green screen). My question is, can I delete the files off of my phone (desperately need the space) trusting that I will able to see my already imported live photos on LR when there's a fix? Any other suggestions? Thanks
Sunil_Bhaskaran
Inspiring
February 24, 2017
Lucky & Scott,
We are working on the issues related to Live photos.
The next Lightroom version should fix most of the import related issues.
We are currently investigating an issue that some of the mov files in Live photos do not play correctly.

Thanks,
Sunil
Inspiring
February 22, 2017
@2889579 Bhaskaran: Do you have a status update? This is an absolutely must-have thing for me and the others. Thanks!
Participating Frequently
January 9, 2017
Sunil-thank you for that.  Seems this has been going on since Live Photos was introduced, yet no appreciable shift in being able to handle the format seems to be functioning.  I imagine you are might not be in charge of fixing it....but is this something that is even being worked on?   Thank you again for attention to this issue
sp
Sunil_Bhaskaran
Inspiring
January 9, 2017
Thanks for the comments, SP.
This is a known issue with Lightroom. We are looking into it.

Thanks,
Sunil