Motion photos support?

Tony

Hi, wondering if support for motion photos is in the plans? My Pixel phone, and it looks like other brands do too, takes a series of photos when taking a picture. This is especially useful when taking pictures of people. So among the 20+ frames in the sequence, there can be one frame that is the best of the lot. The sequence is stored in one image file.

When viewed in TonFotos, how is the one frame chosen? It would be nice to see the individual photos in that sequence to pick the best one.

Andrey

Tony I suppose currently images will be processed as there is only one frame (first one).

Is it possible to send us few images like that for testing? The address is support@tonfotos.com

Tony

Hi Andrey, I emailed you a couple of samples of motion photos. The attachment was large, 15 MB, hope it arrives OK. Sent a moment ago (for the time stamp).

Andrey

Tony Thank you for sharing files! Yes, I received them.

I did some googling and it looks like this is regular JPG plus .mp4 file embedded into it. And probably some additional metadata too. So it does not look like like series of photos, but rather photo + video, just like in case of Apple live photos. However, Apple does not try to embed video into photo, it stores them as two separate files with similar name.

Adding support for live photos / motion photos will require serious UI rework, so I would like to be sure that there is significant demand for that feature. That means, it would be great if more users would show their support for this feature here.

Tony

Thanks Andrey. When my android cellphone runs out of space I need to delete photos which removes the photos from Google photos which is where I can view the motion photos, scroll through the photo series and pick the best shot. I have my photos backed up on my laptop and on a NAS. On my laptop, with Windows Photo I can play the photo sequence but I can’t stop it and pick the best shot (or called “top shot” in some places).

Working with motion photos isn’t a top priority for me as I usually pick the best shot and share it from my phone soon after taking the picture. The job is done. So the motion photo is still on my phone when I need to work with it. It’ll be rare when I need to resurrect an old motion photo from the laptop or NAS to work with it at a later date.

But it would be good to hear from others on motion photos/top shot or whatever it’s called.