In parallel with ExifTool I use Adobe Bridge 2022 to display ergonomically each media's metadata, but apparently, this is not enough to handle all the hidden dates, in order to get my media organized in Photos and free from any inconsistency.Īny help will be GREATLY appreciated, and thank you very much for reading this, have a good evening you all Last question: are there other hidden metadata types I will have to deal with for the work I need to do? Because I discover new ones everyday and I start thinking it is impossible to get all in order. What's the difference with the displayed dates?Įxiftool -a -G1 -time:all dir the same? The result is the same with both commands, but the first one displays instead of. I heard there were QuickTime dates not shown here that were used on a Mac, I ran in both cases exiftool -QuickTime:time:all dir I got, for the original:īut when I try to restore these QuickTime dates for the second one with exiftool -QuickTime:CreateDate='2015:03:14 14:15:02' /Users/tonio/Desktop/Vidéos/20150314_141501.mp4, the dates remain equal to zero. In Photos the time is set to 14:15:01 after import, so everything is supposed to be good, but why are there so many fields set to zero right now? Which date is Photos actually taking to display a file at a place and not another? Why wasn't there a "Date/Time Original" on the original file? So many questions to ask, and I must have forgotten some, I hope you understand my frustration when facing so many confusing elements Note: in Photos the time is set to 15:15:01 after import. Moreover, the date change function as a whole doesn't behave as expected for videos (and this is where I don't understand ANYTHING): here is an example of a video's (supposedly incorrect) data before processing:Įxiftool -time:all /Users/tonio/Desktop/Vidéos/20150314_141501.mp4įile Modification Date/Time : 2015:03:14 14:15:01+01:00įile Access Date/Time : 2015:03:14 14:15:01+01:00įile Inode Change Date/Time : 2022:09:13 03:57:33+02:00 (what is it? Is this embedded?) Jointly, what would -api QuickTimeUTC do there? Is it useful in my case, as I want to keep the time zones from iPhone media and set a new one for Canon media? In order to get the correct date into the files, I know I can use exiftool -AllDates+=1:30 -if '$make eq "Canon"' dir but it does not set the time zone on Photos, am I right? I want this data into the original itself. Unfortunately, when exporting the original file this creates a linked file and does not inject the data into the original. For the photos AND videos taken out of France with the iPhone, they have a time zone and GPS coordinates embedded (XMP data?) so no big problem to sort them.įor the media taken with the other devices, I have to manually set all this information in the Photos application, because my camera was still set to French time. Now I have my files with the good names. MaRegex='("Īlthough I'll have to execute it once for each type of file, case sensitive.īefore knowing ExifTool I used the zsh touch command to edit dates, it worked fine for photos, but not for videos, this is the reason why I installed ExifTool. To rename all the photos by creation date (yyyyMMdd_HHmmss) I can use Adobe Bridge 2022 option "global name change" or this shell script: They are mainly taken in France except some of them. Some photos and videos are taken with a Canon camera, others with a Samsung phone, others with an iPhone and others are iMovie clips. My goal is to rename each media according to its original creation date (even videos, Live photos and RAW files), set all existing dates (even the hidden ones) to this unique and valid creation date taking into account that the time zone has to be the good one for every media, and finally import the "new" files into Photos to organize them into albums, add captions, locations, etc. I read many posts and a lot of documentation to try to understand but there is always a new element that causes the photo not to fit in the right place in Photos, even if the correct date is displayed when viewing file info in Finder (AND Bridge). So I am new to ExifTool (actually I never post on forums but this time I'm really lost and desperate): I have several issues with my photos and videos (around 4,000 in total) I store on Photos (macOS), which have incorrect dates. Thank you Phil for creating this powerful tool and thank you everyone for your constant presence here to help newbies like me.
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