Discard photos & videos edits / adjustments

[kdeldycke]

Photos and videos can be edited within the Photos.app itself. In which case it keeps a copy of the original, on top of which non-destructive edits are applied.

I propose to add a feature that will render the non-destructive edits, and make them permanent. What we need is a way to scan and select edited photos and videos, then discards the originals to have them replaced by their edited version.

That would be powerful to save on space, especially for edited videos. The best example is a 20 minutes video edited in-place to reduce it to 30 seconds. In that case the local database and the iCloud sync will still have the copy of the big 20 min videos to make it editable after the fact.

[kdeldycke]

This feature might be related to these:

• Add option to ExportOptions / PhotoExporter to download both original and edited #588
• generating preview for edited photos #560
• Add osxphotos fix --edited-image-type #336
• slow_mo photos always have hasadjustments=True even if not edited #256
• edits to raw images are not exported #225
• Add specific UTI/suffix support to --convert-to-jpeg #215
• Export modifications as well? #150

[RhetTbull]

See #909

This is possible and would be a good option to include in #909. I've been working on a separate project that reverse engineers the private Photos APIs to enable this sort of thing but it's slow going due to other priorities.