Is it not possible to write metadata to HEIC files? It said it did not work on my iPhone HEIC files due to unsupported file type.
Also wondering if there will be support for Live Photos (so they are viewed and playable as one within Aspect)
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We currently only support JPEG files for writing directly into the file, TIFF support is also planned. HEIF on the other hand, unfortunately, has a quite complicated structure for storing metadata, and modifying/adding metadata without changing the rest of the metadata is a non-trivial task. There exists a library that is supposedly able to assist with this, but it is unusable for us due to legal issues regarding patents and standards compliance requirements. So as of now, it is unclear whether we will be able to support this, but I’ve created an internal ticket to track this (#1634) and to look into it again later.
Live Photos should be less problematic. We intend to add support for an embedded video player after the 1.0.0 release and supporting a live photo view should hopefully be rather simple once that is there.
Ok, thanks for the info. I at least figured out that the sidecar files save the metadata, so I’ll just have to remember to keep them together when moving files around.