HEIC / HEVC support

[JudyKay]

I didn't search the boards or documentation for updated info (apologies), but are HEIC / HEVC not supported?  Will they be?

 

What about PTE Video Optimiser? Does it open HEVC?
 

[Igor]

PTE AV Studio and Optimiser can read (and play) videos in HEVC format. On PC or Mac.

PTE AV Studio on Mac can read images in HEIC format.

[JudyKay]

Thank you.  Why am I not seeing the HEIC files?

[JudyKay]

Never mind. I understand why:  I am on a PC.

Thanks for the progress on this.

[Igor]

5 minutes ago, JudyKay said:

Thank you.  Why am I not seeing the HEIC files?

HEIC images are supported only in the Mac version. Not on Windows.

We plan to add full HEIC support in future.

HEIC is a very complicated format. It's based on Apple file container + array of HEVC videos (tiles) + meta information (color profile).

[JudyKay]

Thank you, Igor.  I am grateful for your amazing work. 

[Igor]

Hi,

I'm testing HEIC images support for a PC (Windows) in PTE AV Studio right now. If all is OK, we'll add it for V12 soon.

It was not easy to support this tricky format! Interesting fact, a typical HEIC image file from your iPhone contains a grid of 48 small video fragments (4 x 8 tiles - 512 x 512 pixels short video clips which contain 1 frame, still picture) + meta data (rotation, color profile, thumbnail picture). 

I discoverd that even latest IrfanView cannot display correctly colors in HEIC images, colors are distorted slightly.

[Igor]

We published V12 Beta 9 with HEIC image support for Windows today. Now HEIC supported on a PC and Mac.