GIF is an acronym for Graphics Interchange Format. The GIF purist will agree with all of the above points and will go one step further. Confusing eh? Especially after we had just learned that the new iPhone 6S shoots 4K video. Phil went on to say that Live Photos aren’t video either. It “includes sound.” Or my favourite bit of Apple marketing gobbledygook, “the motion is created using a space efficient frame-to-frame technology.”Īpple doesn’t want Live Photos to be associated with silly GIFs so they decided to immediately reframe the comparison to something different. I can already hear Apple fanboys and legions of GIF purists screaming repeating loops at me that I’m dead wrong.Īpple fans will simply revel in Phil Schiller’s words – this is “new technology.” It’s not a GIF because it’s “full resolution 12 megapixel stills”. All Rights Reserved.Well the the short answer is YES! Oh boy, what have I done. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2019 and/or its affiliates.
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The MOV files actually make for very large GIFs if you don't shrink them down. I really like the $4.99 GIFBrewery tool, available in the Apple App Store and for PCs. Photoshop gives you the most control, but not everyone has it.
There are a number of tools and websites for turning movie files into GIFs. The Live Photo videos are around 14 frames per second, a great starting point for a GIF. On average, the MOV files are around 3.5 MB, the same size as a still iPhone photo.īut if the allure of the animated GIF is too strong to resist.
Tweet it, Facebook it, text it to your dad's Android smartphone. And unlike a GIF, it still includes audio. Select your iPhone as the source, and hit record while you press and hold on a Live Photo.Īt this point, you have a usable movie file that can be viewed on most platforms or can be converted into other video formats. Plug in your 6S to a Mac, open QuickTime Player and go to File -> New Movie Recording. If you want to show it closer to how it appears on the iPhone 6S - a still image that starts moving - and don't care about audio, there's another option. Locate the MOV file you want and import it to your computer.
To extract the MOV file, plug your phone into a Mac and open Image Capture. If you share a Live Photo over email or text with someone who isn't on a compatible Apple device, they only receive the still image. Each Live Photo is actually a MOV and a JPG file bundled together with some secret Apple magic.