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Work with the HEIF file format

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Work with the HEIF file format

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- [Sean] One of the major photo-related changes that Apple has set in motion with iOS 11 is the adoption of the High Efficiency File Format for still photos and videos. Hi, I'm Sean Duggan and on this episode of Mobile Photography Weekly, we're going to take a look at this format and explore how it might impact your mobile photography workflow, both on the iPhone or iPad as well as on your computer. The default photo format for iOS 11 on the iPhone 7 and later and the newest generations of the iPad Pro is now HEIF, or High Efficiency Image Format for stills and HEVC, which stands for High Efficiency Video Codec, for video. JPEG and the MPEG-4 H.264 video format are no longer the default. So, the question might arise, well, why make the switch to HEIF and HEVC? Well, the name says it all, High Efficiency. HEIF and the HEVC formats result in significantly smaller file sizes with much better image compression quality. The HEIF format can also be thought of a bit like a containter. Unlike…

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