HEIC to HEVC Converter

How to Convert HEIC to HEVC Video Online

1. Upload Your HEIC Files: Drag and drop or click "Add Files" to select .heic photos straight from iPhone, iPad, or a camera-roll export. Batch is supported — upload an entire album to build one slideshow.
2. Pick a Merge Strategy and Quality Preset: Choose "Merge images" to combine all photos into one HEVC video, or "Video per image" for a separate clip per photo. Set Quality Preset (default Very High) — Highest for archival masters, Medium for social-media uploads, or switch to Constant Quality (CRF) / Constraint Quality if you want manual rate control instead of a preset.
3. Set Duration, Resolution, and Background (Optional): Set Duration per frame (1/60 s up to 10 s; default 5 s), pick a Resolution preset (1920×1080 Full HD default, with 4K UHD, 1080×1920 vertical, 1080×1350 Instagram Portrait, 1080×1080 Square, all the way down to 256×144) or keep original, and pick a Background Color from 25 swatches (default Black) for any letterboxing.
4. Convert and Download: Click Convert. Files process in your browser session — download individually or as a ZIP. No sign-up, no watermark, no account required.

Why Convert HEIC to HEVC Video?

HEIC is Apple's still-image format (since iOS 11, 2017) — a HEIF container that already wraps HEVC-compressed image data. "HEVC video" with the .hevc extension is a raw H.265 video elementary stream, the same codec used for the image data inside HEIC and for iPhone 4K video. This converter takes one or many HEIC photos and writes them out as an HEVC video — a slideshow, a single-frame clip, or one short clip per photo. Common reasons to do this:

• Photo-into-video timeline workflows — Importing into Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Premiere Pro is faster when the source is already an HEVC video stream rather than a still that needs interpreting and resizing.
• Social uploads that require a video — Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts only accept video; a still HEIC photo has to be turned into a clip first. Pick the 1080×1920 vertical preset to skip the platform's auto-crop.
• Memorial slideshows and recap reels — A wedding, vacation, or year-in-review of 30-100 iPhone photos becomes a single HEVC file that plays anywhere a 4K iPhone clip plays.
• Compact archival of photo bursts — A 50-frame burst encoded as one HEVC clip at 30 fps is meaningfully smaller than 50 separate HEIC files and easier to thumb through.
• Same-codec efficiency — Because HEIC and .hevc both rely on H.265, there's no transcode between fundamentally different codec families — only re-packetization plus the per-frame duration scaffolding ffmpeg needs to make a still into a video stream.
• Avoiding HEIC compatibility gaps on Windows / Android — A .hevc or .mp4-wrapped HEVC plays natively on Windows 10+ (with the HEVC Video Extension), modern Android, and any device that handles iPhone 4K videos.

If you actually want a Windows/Android-friendly photo (not a video), you probably want HEIC to JPG. If you want HEVC inside a more universal MP4 container, try HEIC to MP4. For the inverse — extract a still frame from an HEVC stream — use HEVC to HEIC.

HEIC vs HEVC vs HEIF — Clearing Up the Confusion

Bottom line: HEIC and .hevc share the same H.265 codec, but HEIC packages it as a still image and .hevc packages it as a video stream. This converter does the still-to-stream wrap for you.

Quality Preset & Resolution Quick Guide

Constant Quality (CRF) overrides the preset with a single number — for HEVC, CRF 18 is visually lossless, 23 is a good default, 28 is the streaming sweet spot. Constraint Quality lets you cap variable-bitrate output at a ceiling.

Frequently Asked Questions

Aren't HEIC and HEVC already the same thing?

They share a codec, not a file structure. HEIC is an ISO/IEC 23008-12 still-image container with H.265-coded image samples inside. .hevc is an ISO/IEC 23008-2 / ITU-T H.265 raw video elementary stream — a sequence of coded video frames designed to be played back in time. The image data inside a HEIC isn't a playable video stream; it's coded as one or more HEVC intra (I-frame) samples without the frame timing, GOP structure, or stream headers that make a .hevc file playable. This converter adds those wrappers and a per-frame duration so the result is a real video.

What's the relationship between HEIC, HEIF, and HEVC?

HEIF is the standard (ISO/IEC 23008-12) for storing images and image sequences in a container. HEIC is the specific HEIF profile that uses HEVC (ISO/IEC 23008-2, also known as H.265) as the image codec — so every HEIC file is a HEIF file, but HEIF files can also use AV1, AVC, or even JPEG inside. Apple uses the .heic extension since iOS 11; Canon and some Android OEMs use .heif with the same HEVC encoding. Functionally, .heic and .heif files with HEVC inside are the same.

Will my Live Photo motion clip transfer over?

No. Apple Live Photos are stored on iPhone as a pair: a HEIC still frame plus a separate .mov video file (1080p HEVC, ~3 seconds), tied together by a UUID asset identifier in the metadata. When you upload only the .heic file, the motion .mov stays on your phone and is not part of the input. The HEVC video this tool produces is built from the still frame, with the duration you set. To preserve Live Photo motion, AirDrop the original or use HEIC to MP4 on a recipient that supports the paired upload, or convert the .mov component separately.

Why does the output have no audio?

The source is one or more still images, and HEIC images don't carry an audio track. The HEVC output here is video-only (the .hevc raw stream format itself is video-only by design — audio lives in a container like MP4 or MKV). Drop the resulting clip into iMovie, CapCut, DaVinci Resolve, or any NLE and add a music bed there.

What's the difference between Quality Preset, Constant Quality, and Constraint Quality?

Quality Preset (Lowest → Highest, default Very High) maps to a curated CRF value internally — easiest for non-experts. Constant Quality lets you set a CRF directly from 0 (lossless) to 51 (worst); HEVC's sweet spot is 18-28. Constraint Quality is constrained-VBR: you set a quality target and a bitrate ceiling, useful when a streaming service has a max bitrate. If you don't know which to pick, leave it on Very High preset.

Can I make one HEVC video from many photos, or one video per photo?

Both — toggle the Merge Strategy. "Merge images" concatenates all uploaded HEICs in order with the per-frame Duration you set, producing a single .hevc slideshow. "Video per image" creates a separate clip per photo at the same Duration. For 100 burst-mode shots into one clip, pick Merge with a Duration of 1/30 s for a smooth 30 fps replay; for individual product photos to upload as Reels, pick Video per image with a 3-5 s duration.

Why pick HEVC video over MP4 or MOV?

A .hevc file is the raw codec stream — smaller header overhead, no container metadata, and easier for video editors and ffmpeg pipelines to ingest as an elementary stream. Pick MP4 (HEIC to MP4) when you want a self-contained file that plays in QuickTime, VLC, browsers, and on a TV USB stick. Pick raw HEVC when you're feeding a transcoder, mux pipeline, or NLE that prefers elementary streams.

Can my device play .hevc files directly?

Players that handle HEVC elementary streams: VLC (Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android), MPV, ffplay, FFmpeg-based players. Native macOS QuickTime, Windows Media Player, and most browsers prefer HEVC inside an MP4 or MOV container — they may not open a raw .hevc directly. If you need broad device playback, convert to MP4 instead.

What HEIC sources work as input?

iPhone 7 and later running iOS 11+ produce HEIC by default (Settings → Camera → Formats → High Efficiency). iPad Pro models from 2017+, recent Canon mirrorless bodies that record HEIF, and any Android device using HEIF/HEIC export all work. Live Photos contribute only the still HEIC half. ProRAW (.dng) is a different format and is not accepted here — convert ProRAW to a HEIC or JPG first if you need it in this pipeline.

Will I lose quality re-encoding HEIC's HEVC data into a HEVC video?

Some, but minimally compared to a JPG→H.264 round trip. Both source and destination use H.265, so the chroma subsampling and color primaries usually pass through cleanly. The lossy step is re-quantizing the still's coded samples into video frames at the chosen CRF / preset. Pick "Highest" or CRF 18 for visually lossless output; pick a lower preset only when you specifically want a smaller file.