Welcome to Motion Photo Utility Page

App Interaction on video (above) yields image (below) result

Images of App on Desktop

Summary

Motion Image Utility, simply scans and copies (if so desires) all motion photos of your choosing. Then copies them into separate standard image and video files. These new files can be viewed or modified by most software.

Why is it Needed

This small utility was created to help people get FULL access to their most prized digital asset; the photo. We believe: "That you own your data, and thus you should be able to access it anywhere". There are countless incredible applications to work with standard images and videos, but they are rendered useless with this unfamiliar format.

What is a Motion Photo and What is the Problem?

A Motion Photo

Most Android phones (I.e. Samsung Galaxy, Google Pixel phones) take a so called “Motion Photo”. On your phone you can view a Motion Photo as a still image, and the short video. However when you copy or move these images onto your desktop computer or virtually anywhere else (Mac/ Windows/ Linux/ Appliance) you can only see the image!

The Problem

The Solution

With Motion Photo Utility - now that the photos are converted to a universally usable format, the resulting data (photo and short video) can be viewed on the virtually any device. Edit that data with your favorite software and share. One important use case is being able to get access to more information in a photo that did not turn out, but captured an important event. By look at the short video frame by frame and pick out a still image out of the video.

Need Your Support

Please consider donating to support this cause, which might help justify further such side tangents that will benefit a lot of people in the future, and/or improve this one. It took a considerable amount of time to decipher the content of the Motion Photo JPEG file. Then develop a robust algorithm that could restore the data into standard file formats. Where nothing is lost in the translation, META data tags and all. We were not able to find any reference standards how the information was crammed into a jpeg file. Long story short, with no roadmap of the modified file contents, special utilities were written just to help decipher the binary data in order to help recognize standard image data blocks etc.