HEIC to MP4 Converter

How to Convert HEIC to MP4 Online

1. Upload Your HEIC Files: Drag and drop or click "Add Files" to select HEIC photos straight from iPhone, iPad, or a Mac Photos export. Drop in a single Live Photo's still frame, a burst sequence, or hundreds of HEICs to assemble into a slideshow or timelapse. Batch is supported — drop in an entire folder.
2. Pick a Video Codec and Quality Preset: Default is H.264 at the Medium preset — the universal choice that plays on every browser, phone, and smart TV without re-encoding hassles. Switch to H.265 / HEVC for ~50% smaller files at the same quality (matches the HEVC encoder iPhone already uses for Live Photo motion clips), VP9 or AV1 for modern web playback, or MPEG-4 / Xvid / DivX for legacy device targets. Quality presets range Lowest to Highest, target a specific file size in MB, or fine-tune with CRF (0-51 for H.264, lower = higher quality; 18-23 is visually lossless).
3. Set Image Duration, Resolution, and Background Color (Optional): Choose how long each HEIC displays — from 1/60 second (60 fps timelapse) up to 10 seconds for a slow photo show. Pick a resolution preset (240P, 360P, 480P, 720P, 1080P, 1440P, 2160P / 4K, all the way to 8K / 4320P) or social-ready aspect ratios (1080×1920 vertical for Reels / TikTok / Shorts, 1080×1080 square for Instagram feed, 1920×1080 landscape for YouTube). Set a background color (black, white, or any of 24 named colors) for letterboxing when an iPhone HEIC's 4:3 native ratio doesn't fill a 16:9 or 9:16 output frame.
4. Convert and Download: Click Convert. Files process on our servers and download as a single MP4 — no sign-up, no watermark, no cap on the number of input HEICs.

Why Convert HEIC to MP4?

HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) is Apple's default still-image format on every iPhone since the iPhone 7 / iOS 11. It's actually a container that can hold a single still, a burst, or — in the case of a Live Photo — a paired 1.5-second motion clip alongside the key frame. MP4 is the universal video container that plays on Android, Windows, smart TVs, every browser, and every social platform. Converting HEIC → MP4 turns Apple's image format into a video file — useful any time the destination expects motion instead of a still:

• Sharing iPhone Live Photos with non-Apple users — Live Photos look magical on iPhone, but AirDrop them to Android, attach them to Gmail, or post them on Twitter and the recipient sees only the still frame. Converting the HEIC + motion clip to MP4 preserves the 1.5-second video the way it was intended to be seen.
• Social media that won't accept stills — Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Facebook Stories, and X video posts require an MP4. A single HEIC converted to a 3-10 second MP4 with a vertical 1080×1920 frame works as a Story or Reel without launching CapCut.
• iPhone photo slideshows for events — Drop in 30-50 HEICs from a wedding, birthday, or vacation at 4 seconds each to produce a ~3 minute MP4. Plays from any USB stick, smart TV, or projector that reads MP4 — no Apple device required.
• iPhone burst sequences and timelapse frames — Burst Mode and third-party apps capture sequential HEICs (IMG_0001.heic, IMG_0002.heic…). Set 1/24, 1/30, or 1/60 second per frame to assemble them into a cinematic, broadcast, or smooth-web video without converting through JPG first.
• Compatibility with video-only platforms — Some CMS platforms, digital signage players, dashcam loop systems, and learning-management systems accept only MP4 — never HEIC (and many still don't accept HEIC at all). Wrapping your HEIC photo in MP4 satisfies the upload requirement.
• Compressing an iPhone photo archive into one shareable file — Sending 200 HEICs by email is a non-starter (most non-Apple recipients can't open them anyway). A 1080p H.265 MP4 of the same 200 images at 3 seconds each is one file, often under 50 MB, and recipients on any device just press play.

HEIC vs MP4 — Format Comparison

Frame Rate and Image Duration Quick Guide

Frequently Asked Questions

Will this extract the motion video from my iPhone Live Photo?

A Live Photo on iPhone is actually two files — the HEIC still and a paired ~1.5 second MOV / HEVC motion clip. Most apps strip the motion clip on export. If you have only the.heic file, the motion clip is gone and this tool produces an MP4 from the still frame at whatever duration you set. To preserve the motion, export the Live Photo from your iPhone using "Save as Video" (Photos app → share → Save as Video) or AirDrop both halves, then convert the.mov component with our MOV to MP4 tool. For the still half, this page is the right place.

Why won't Android or Windows users open my HEIC directly?

HEIC uses the HEVC (H.265) codec, which Apple licensed and ships natively but Microsoft and most Android OEMs do not. Windows 10/11 needs the paid HEIF Image Extension from the Microsoft Store, and Android support is uneven — Android 10+ added partial support but many gallery apps still display only a thumbnail or fail entirely. Converting to MP4 (with H.264 inside) sidesteps every codec licensing gap because H.264 is universally licensed and decoded.

Should I pick H.264 or H.265 for the output?

H.264 is the safe default — every browser, phone, smart TV, and social platform plays it natively, and it's the codec recipients on older Windows or budget Android devices will reliably decode. Pick H.265 (HEVC) when you want roughly half the file size at the same visual quality and your audience is on iPhone (since iOS 11 / 2017), modern Android, recent Windows 10/11, or macOS Big Sur or newer. Since your source is already HEVC-encoded inside the HEIC, H.265 output preserves the codec generation and avoids one round of generational quality loss.

How long will the MP4 be if I upload N HEICs?

Output duration = number of images × image duration. A 60-photo iPhone vacation album at 4 seconds each = 240 seconds (4 minutes). 1,800 burst frames at 1/30 second = a 60-second timelapse. The setting is per-image, applied uniformly to every HEIC you upload — drag to reorder before clicking Convert.

How do I make a vertical Reels or TikTok video from one iPhone photo?

Pick the 1080×1920 resolution preset in step 3. The converter centers your HEIC and pads the unused area with the background color (black is standard, white is clean, or pick a brand color from the 24 named options). For square Instagram feed posts use 1080×1080; for YouTube and Facebook landscape use 1920×1080. Set the duration to 5-7 seconds — Reels and Shorts both cap usefully at that length for a single still.

What happens if my HEICs are different aspect ratios (portrait vs landscape)?

iPhone shoots 4:3 by default but landscape orientation, Portrait Mode (16:9 crops), and Pro RAW (variable) all coexist in a single album. Each frame is scaled to fit inside the chosen output resolution while preserving its source aspect ratio, then padded with the background color (letterbox for tall sources in a wide frame, pillarbox for wide sources in a tall frame). For uniform output, resize HEIC all images to the same dimensions before converting.

Can I add background music to the slideshow?

This converter produces silent MP4 by default — there's no audio track in your source HEICs. To add music, convert here first, then merge with audio using merge it with a video editor (DaVinci Resolve, Shotcut, CapCut, Adobe Premiere). The output container respects an Audio Codec setting (AAC, MP3, AC-3, Opus) for downstream compatibility, but the source has no audio to encode.

Can I trim the output or skip frames from a long burst?

Yes — Video Trim lets you set a start time and duration on the output (HH:MM:SS.sss or seconds), and the Image Drop Frames option lets you take every 2nd / 3rd / 4th frame from a long HEIC sequence to shorten a multi-thousand-frame timelapse. To go the other direction (extract stills from a finished MP4), see MP4 to HEIC or MP4 to JPG.

What's the maximum number of HEICs and the file size cap?

There's no hard cap on the number of images, but Everything runs on our servers, so very large jobs depend on upload size and connection speed. For reference: 500 × 12-megapixel iPhone HEICs at 1 second each produces a ~5-minute 1080p MP4 in the 50-150 MB range depending on codec and CRF. iPhone 14 Pro / 15 Pro 48-megapixel HEICs are roughly 4× larger per file — plan accordingly.