Surprisingly, the photos taken on my iPhone 13 Pro are saved in .heic format when I connected it to my Windows 11 PC and plan to edit some of them in Photoshop. I have roughly 1000 images on iPhone and would love to learn a fast way to bulk convert .heic to jpg on my PC.
[Update] Still receive notification from this thread from time to time. Actually, I installed a few heic converters, the one that finally worked is TunesBro HEIC Converter, suggested by Mohamed857. Here is the step-by-step tutorial (external link removed by moderator) you can check out.
CloudConvert is a powerful online file conversion service that supports over 200 different file formats, including HEIC, JPG, and more. It allows users to convert files without installing any software on their computer, making it a convenient solution for various file conversion needs. The platform is designed with an easy-to-use interface, enabling users to quickly convert files without any prior technical knowledge.
Please be cautious when using online converters, as uploading personal or sensitive images to third-party websites might pose privacy risks. Also, the conversion speed may depend on your internet connection and the size of the files being converted.
However, instead of importing your photos as HEIC and then converting them on your PC, you should be able to import them directly as JPG (having the phone convert them upon transfer). For this, change the settings on the iPhone. I have it in French but in English the option in the camera settings should be named something like "Transfer to Mac or PC" and then a choice between Original file (=HEIC) and Automatic (=HEIC when transferring to a Mac and JPG in other cases).
So, I recently got myself one of those fancy new iPhones, and it comes with this nifty HEIC photo format. It's all cool for saving space, but when it comes to sharing pics with friends who aren't on Team Apple, well, that's a bit of a pickle.
1. The main reason I got this software was to convert my HEIC photos to JPEG. All I had to do was drag and drop the HEIC files into the program, select the output format (JPEG, in my case), and click the "Convert" button. It was that simple. I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly the software converted my photos. Even when dealing with a batch of images, it didn't take long at all. This was a huge time-saver for me.
I'd definitely recommend giving TunesBro HEIC Converter a try, it solved the compatibility issue I had with HEIC photos and made sharing images a breeze. Plus, the software was so user-friendly that I didn't feel like I needed to be a tech guru to use it effectively.
Certainly! I also used TunesBro HEIC Converter to change lots of .heic image to PNG, it saved the day when I found myself stuck with HEIC format photos on my iPhone, causing compatibility headaches with non-Apple devices. Its hassle-free installation and user-friendly interface made converting HEIC to JPEG a breeze, preserving image quality while delivering lightning-fast results.
@HolawayStay away from TunesBro HEIC Converter. It works fine if you are converting a couple dozen photos, but I needed to convert a couple thousand. You can't convert more than around 80 without the application locking up. There is a terrible memory leak so have each tiny batch of conversion, you have to restart the application because it never releases memory. Poorly written and not user friendly at all.
Trying to convert an old server. I have downloaded the latest 6.1 converter and it installed smoothly. When I go to submit the conversion job everything looks good until the final screen where the job is submitted. After a few seconds of spinning an error is displayed :
Sadly there are quite a few hits on the web and none seem to cover the issue. I am logged in as local administrator, tried running the converter as administrator user, tried switching from local machine to remote and specifying the loopback address. Checked the disk for errors, nothing meaningful in the event logs. Eventually looked at the requirements of 6.1 converter and noticed that Windows 2003 does not appear to feature. I have tried in vain to locate a copy of converter 5.0.1 since it appears to be the last version to support 2003 SE but none of the links on vmWare site appear to work.
This is a real shame, maybe there is some config option. I then retried this on the external server so Converter points directly to the actual ESXi host that has the datastore, it was a none flyer - presenting an error that the host was managed by a vCenter and to connect there instead. Next I have a forth ESXi server that is not part of vCenter (essentials plus only allows 3 systems) so I pointed the external host there and hey presto vConverter accepted it and submitted the job.
The performance was terrible. I disabled SSL and saw a minimal speed boost but the transfer speed is around 2Mbps, and this is coming into a 150Mbps link. I tried using an EFM backup circuit that is only rated at 10Mbps and the speed increased, but only to about 6Mbps - the physical server showing no CPU stress and no throttling enabled.
It is now sorted, the fatal I/O appears to have been [in my case] the issue that the server that is running the vconverter software that I was attempting to P2V could only communicate directly to the vCenter. After looking at firewalls it was clear the after chatting to vCenter on 443 it then opens a port to the target ESXi host on 902.
During this trial and error process I was advised from vmWare that the host, vCenter and ESXi machines all need to be on the same network (interpret as routable). Opening a VPN from the remote server to the vmWare boxes sorted the issue and also seemed to boost the speed.
Hi, actually I used Vmware converter 6.1.1 and were able convert Windows Server 2003 with SP2 although it was not in the compatible Guest Operating System list. I succeeded through vcenter (VCSA 6.5) also directly to standalone ESXi 6.5 host. All of them (source, destination and converter) were in the same VLAN.
Im trying to convert HEIC to JPG using python. The only other answers about this topic used pyheif. I am on windows and pyheif doesn't support windows. Any suggestions? I am currently trying to use pillow.
As of today, I haven't found a way to do this with a Python-only solution. If you need a workaround, you can find any Windows command line utility that will do the conversion for you, and call that as a subprocess from Python.
A related problem is when Windows users send me a file path and I want to quickly access it. Currently, I manually navigate to it by translating the path in my little head, which hurts. So, I reversed the hack above and added a call to open the folder to the file.
Why are you not using a Web server with common access by PC and Mac users, and where these files are stored? You use a common https URI path to the filename on the webserver, and then PC and Mac specific filesystem nomenclature is no longer necessary.
One should have a data policy in place that offers filenaming conventions for cross-platform compatibility, and a facility where users can drag/drop files onto a web server page, and have those documents placed in the appropriate web server location.
Fair question... afraid above my pay grade. I'm one of the owners of our biz, not the one to set up such an arrangement. Thanks for the suggestion though - I passed it along to someone here that may be able to do that for us.
A file path only has meaning in terms of a file system. On a Mac, you don't have a Windows file system and vice versa. There are ways to export file systems, but then they are different file systems. It all depends on the context and what you are really doing with the path.
Quite true. In new development work, I'd look to encode this as a URI, a format that has good and known rules, and could serve as an intermediate format or even the canonical format for the operation.
In the general case, file names and file paths can be far more of a problem than might be initially obvious, as the tools can be forced to deal with host-local conversions and characters and lengths that might not map across operating systems. Which means various filename converters can either ignore these cases, or can end up non-reversable conversions. Microsoft Windows itself has various rules for what's available, depending on the file system.
I work in an office with PC users so I want an application which I can drop a folder/file onto that will extract the server file path (eg. Networkdrive/rootfolder/sub-folder/file) and convert it to the Windows format for me to paste into an email. I would like it (or another application) to then be able to take a Windows file path which I get sent and convert it to an OSX path which I can then go to in Finder.
Your application will inherently be PC specific, as the device letters can be adjusted local to each PC. If you've locked that down in your enviroment and if you're never using odd characters in the filename, then a translation can be a hunk of Perl or Python or some other scripting language. Whatever you write will be site-specific, basically parsing the filename and reworking the hunks to match what your local Windows share lettering expects.
This environment is filled with edge cases. It'd probably be easier to do some sort of an "uploader" tool that picked a generated filename (or allowed some choice but still enforced a filename and naming conventions) and an upload location to the share for you, and that avoided all the gnarly bits of this problem. Simplify the problem somewhat, in other words. Upload to share foo with directory bar, and gives you back a generated path and name.
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