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 White) for any letterboxing.
4. Convert and Download: Click Convert. Files process on our servers — 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 an H.265 video stream packaged in a Matroska (MKV) container — the same codec used for the image data inside HEIC and for iPhone 4K video, under an unusual file extension. 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 DaVinci Resolve or another MKV-capable editor is faster when the source is already a video clip rather than a still that needs interpreting and resizing (Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro prefer MP4/MOV over Matroska — take the MP4 route for those).
• 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 in any MKV-capable player such as VLC or mpv (for stock Apple apps, pick the MP4 wrap instead).
• 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 — just a re-encode within H.265 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 (Matroska) or .mp4-wrapped HEVC plays natively on Windows 10+ (with the HEVC Video Extension) and modern Android; for stock Apple apps, which do not play Matroska, use the MP4 wrap.

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 inside a Matroska container. This converter does the still-to-video 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. The .hevc file this tool writes is H.265 video (ISO/IEC 23008-2 / ITU-T H.265) packaged in a Matroska container — a sequence of coded video frames with timing, 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 or GOP structure a video needs. This converter re-encodes the picture into a timed video track with 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 — so there is simply nothing to carry over. The Matroska container the tool writes could hold audio, but for image sources the audio codec menu is hidden and the output is a silent, video-only file by design. 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?

Rarely for technical reasons — the .hevc file is a Matroska (MKV) container holding the H.265 stream, so the real difference from MP4 is packaging and compatibility, not overhead. Pick MP4 (HEIC to MP4) when you want a self-contained file that plays in QuickTime, browsers, and on a TV USB stick — stock apps rarely accept Matroska. Pick .hevc when a workflow specifically asks for that extension, or when everything downstream is MKV-comfortable (ffmpeg, VLC, DaVinci Resolve).

Can my device play.hevc files directly?

Players that handle Matroska with HEVC inside: VLC (Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android), MPV, ffplay, FFmpeg-based players — the file opens directly, with working duration and seek. Native macOS QuickTime, Windows Media Player, and most browsers don't play Matroska (and browser HEVC decoding is narrow) — renaming the file to .mkv helps extension-driven software, and a lossless remux (ffmpeg -i in.hevc -c copy out.mp4) satisfies tools that insist on MP4. 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.