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LoveLiver

live photo demo

LoveLiver is a Mac OS X GUI application and a CLI tool to create Apple's Live Photos from JPEG and MOV.

Requirements

  • MacOS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
  • Photos.app

GUI application

Install

  1. Go to the releases page, find the version you want.
  2. Download the file.

Usage

  1. Open movie files on LiveLover.app
  2. Set poster frame
  3. Seek movie position and Create Live Photo
  4. Import All New Photos on Photos.app

CLI tool

Install

  1. Go to the releases page, find the version you want.
  2. Download the file.
  3. Put the binary to somewhere you want (e.g. /usr/local/bin).
  4. Make sure it has execution bits turned on by chmod a+x LoveLiver.

Usage

Create Live Photos

$ ./LoveLiver --operation=livephoto --jpeg sample/original/IMG.JPG --mov sample/original/IMG.MOV --output sample/livephoto
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and drop & drag sample/livephoto directory to Photos.app.

Show metadata of JPEG

$ ./LoveLiver --operation=jpeg --jpeg sample/livephoto/IMG.JPG
asset identifier: CDDD4450-642F-442B-8371-B46BC4229XXY

Show metadata of QuickTime MOV

$ ./LoveLiver --operation=mov --mov sample/livephoto/IMG.MOV
asset identifier: CDDD4450-642F-442B-8371-B46BC4229XXY
still image time: 0

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