[Feature] Option to manually remove video from live photos

[buxel]

The feature

I tend to use live photos to get a good shot but only occasionally really need/want the video part afterwards.

It would be great if there was a way to select a bunch of live photos and just remove the video part of it. In my case, this would reduce the required storage space by ~60%.

I understand that it may not seem worth the effort since storage is quite cheap but if this feature is easy enough to implement, I'd really appreciate it.

I had a short chat with Daniel on Discord here.

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[Blendi]

I am also interested in this feature.
I tend to take a lot of pictures for work also. Most of them I don't need to keep the video, I need only the picture. When it comes to family pictures I really enjoy the live photos that our phones offer today.
Having the option to delete/remove the video from live photos is a great feature that will make IMMICH feel more complete.

[maujogue]

Up for this feature. I recently uploaded a 10gigs google takeout, turns out half of it was videos from live photos I didn't know existed.

[kvalev]

That would be quite helpful, but given Immich's policy of never changing the original media I dont see it ever happening.

[maujogue]

It could create a duplicate, free of the live photo part. It would then be the user's responsibility to delete the original photo.

[je-kizer]

Immich allows you to delete photos and videos, I don't see how this would be different.

[bbrendon]

AI made you a script :D . I used it and seems to work great. I would use the script to create a live photo album, then select all the images you want and put them in a new album. You can use the find param to get the UUID of an album for Live deletion.

https://pastebin.com/Y5JSAE36

[bbrendon]

Oh no!!! I noticed a lot of old live photos have two assets in Immich. The photo and the video are separate!! bugger.

[token47]

This now became a very needed feature since the new photo editing feature of 2.5+ do not work on live photos. I do not care about the video part so much after the initial shooting/adjusting, so I prefer to delete the video part so I can edit/rotate the photo.

[token47]

Even better, the video editor should offer to drop the video so it can edit it.

[ptr727]

I'd love for a way to rid my library of the video portion of photos.
I currently have a pre-import app i run to detect and delete the mov files.

If MOV is ~1 to 4s long
Find movie photos pair; IMG_1234_HEVC.mov / IMG_1234.mov <-> IMG_1234.HEIC
Use exiftools to get the ContentIdentifier tag for both files, if they match they are a set.
Delete the MOV file.