Importing image to use as frame

[Democle22]

Hi,

I had an issue with Apple Photos and now all my images are split in .mov and .jpg, this app is the only way I found to rebuild the Live Photos. Unfortunately once I select the frame to use from the video, the quality of the generated image is way below the original one. I am not sure if the project is still alive but is there any contributor able to edit the app so that an option to import an image to use as frame can be added?

Many thanks!

Democle22

[banjun]

I don't think it's a natural feature of LoveLiver although it can be done by adding some implementations on top of LoveLiver. (it's nice if someone helps you. they can.)

Anyway I have 2 suggestions for your situation.

1. If your pairs of .mov+.jpg come from live photos, you can just drag & drop a pair onto Photos.app at once to let the app recreate a live photo. It's worth trying. No additional features are needed to do it.
2. Technically any pair of .mov+.jpg can be converted into a live photo by appending a common asset identifier to both .mov & .jpg, without re-encoding nor re-compression. Because LoveLiver does trimming a video as its main feature, your live photos can preserve their quality by using a such lossless solution other than LoveLiver.

[sethgillett]

@banjun How does one append a common asset identifier to both files? Ideally looking to code a CLI solution for this so I can import many "motion photos" into mac photos as "live photos".

[vickychinghk]

@sethgillett hi Seth, have you code anything like this, or found? I am still looking for a thing to transfer "motion photos" to "live photos", really looking for your reply, thankssss!!!

[sethgillett]

@sethgillett hi Seth, have you code anything like this, or found? I am still looking for a thing to transfer "motion photos" to "live photos", really looking for your reply, thankssss!!!

I ended up writing a script but I don't think I still have it. Basically, you need to split the file into its component jpg and mp4, then you have to convert the mp4 to an mov file (you may also have to convert the jpg to heic). Finally, you need to add some metadata that gives them the same "asset identifier", and then you can import them as live photos into the mac photos app. The easiest way though is to use google photos to import the live photo and then save it to the camera roll on an iphone, which I'd recommend unless you want to spend hours fiddling with it.