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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?

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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 19, 2018
    Amen! That's exactly what I'm talking about. As Adobe isn't communicating this at all, there's only one hope: Affinity. They seem to understand the Apple universe so they'll come up with a "better" Lightroom.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
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    October 19, 2018
    It's disappointing to see language like "Importing Live photos is supported by Lightroom." - at best this is stretching the truth.

    Treating the video portion as a separate asset is not how live photos are meant to work. I strongly suspect users don't want every photo they take with their iPhone to appear twice in their library - but this is what we get now.

    More than 3 years on from live photos, it's sad that Adobe has ignored this great feature.
    Rikk Flohr_Photography
    Community Manager
    Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
    September 4, 2018
    Different than content of the thread.

    Please reference the new conversation here: Export as a Live Photo back to Camera Roll?
    Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
    Jerry Syder
    Jerry Syder
    Inspiring
    August 31, 2018
    There will be no further updates to LR CC 6 x. At the moment, the latest LR Classic(7.5) doesn't support it but when it does, it won't go to LR 6 I'm afraid 😞 
    davidl8959353
    davidl8959353
    Participant
    August 31, 2018
    I imported them onto my MacBook Pro but they were imported as 1-2 sec video files so LR CC 6.12 will not develop them. Any suggestions?
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    bbpan
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    August 31, 2018
    Even with the latest LR CC, you can import and develop it, but you would lose the "Live" part.  You would end up just a regular static photo.
    davidl8959353
    davidl8959353
    Participant
    August 31, 2018
    I am importing Live photographs from iPhoneX into LR 6.2. I cannot DEVELOP them because LR treats the Live stills as movies. What is the fix for this problem which from these earlier exchanges has been an on-going problem for several years? Thanks.
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    bbpan
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    July 30, 2018
    3 years already and there's still no sight of supporting Live Photos in Lightroom CC.  Is it really that difficult to be able to back up a Live Photo and be able to export it as Live Photo back to the Camera Roll?

    I heard Google Photos was able to do that already.
    Victoria Bampton LR Queen
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    Victoria Bampton LR QueenCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 18, 2018
    That's ok, I got it, and when the engineers get to look at Live Photos, they'll see your posts. Whether they'll go "all the way" on support, I don't know. I hope so.
    Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
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    July 18, 2018
    It would be great if somebody would truly understand what I mean. It seems like nobody reads the full text and meaning of it ...
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