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Hello. I've done a transfer from Google Photos to iCloud Photos and I've ended up with a bunch of files from Google into my iCloud Drive cause "they weren't supported". Looking at them, they are using Google's vp9 encoding.
Will I be able to transcode them using compressor? Is there support for them? I'll probably end up encoding them to HEVC.
Thanks.
If Handbrake can process it to any MPEG-4 or QuickTime format you can take it to Compressor. Would it be possible to share one the of the files using Dropbox or WeTransfer. Post the link here and it will spread in email notifications.
Thank you, Tom, for the swift reply.
Hmm... No, that's the format they are stored in Google Photos. I am trying to find a good set of options using ffmpeg or Handbrake, but I can't get the transcoded quality right while keeping at least the same file size.
Any recommendations?
One idea that I had is to do a lossless conversion to a format that Compressor supports (file sizes are going to be 10x larger) and then use Compressor on those. Does that make any sense?
Google Photos has "Original quality" and "Storage saver" settings. The latter option was recently "updated" to convert downloaded movies to Google's VP9 codec which is incompatible with Apple's native apps (a workaround is to use IINA or VLC etc for viewing).
So the best quality option is to disable "Storage saver" setting in Google Photos and then try to download the originals.
Or re-encode VP9 to some compatible format with Handbrake, Shutter Encoder or ffmpeg.
Try these settings in Handbrake.
It actually looks better than the original in VLC, and it's a third the size. VLC is the only app I have that can play it.
vp9 isn't available in Compressor. Perhaps you can convert or export them from Google Photos in a different format.
You can grab it from my iCloud. Thanks for the help; I appreciate it.
Compressor vp9 support
