I was given a still image that my "mediainfo" program showed as HEVC. I figured this is from an iPhone. Couldn't get it to open or import into Avid. The OS saw the picture in the desktop window but the icon was for a terminal document. I tried adding the extension .HEVC but no luck. After a bunch of googles seeing HEVC mention with HEIC I finally added the .heic extension and then Preview would open the picture and I could then export to a tiff or jpeg etc...
So here is my new list of codec related acronyms that I haven't worked with much that I will surely forget by tomorrow and have to regoogle again:
HEIF= High Efficency Image File Format, (why not HEIFF???)
HEVC=High Efficiency Video Coding also known as H-265
HEIC=A file containing HEVC encoded images
So all this results in the following sentence in Wikipedia:
" HEVC is an image and video encoding format and the default image codec used with HEIF. HEIF files containing HEVC-encoded images are also known as HEIC files. "
So how I stumbled onto adding the .HEIC is beyond me but it worked for the still.
How would I contact the MPeg Group or SMPTE to suggest all these files be renamed "Fred." I knew a dog named Fred and he was a nice Chocolate Lab and his name was easy to remember. Can we all just agree to call these files Freds? It would make me very happy. Some days I really miss Bob Z's shotgun. ;-)
John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net
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