exiftool Questions

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I have some MP4 videos that don't have Media Created date and time because they were recorded with Instagram camera. I want to set the date and time and I found out that I can do that with Exiftool...
Outbid asked 25/12, 2018 at 22:46

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Images downloaded from the web using Safari and macOS have information available from the Finder with Get Info. For example, "Where from" which can be the URL for the original image. Is that stored...
Viminal asked 29/3, 2018 at 22:18

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I'm looking to use exiftool to scan the EXIF tags from my photos and videos. It's a perl executable. What's the best way to inferface with this? Are there any Python libraries to do this already? O...
Kinsey asked 9/4, 2012 at 14:58

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I just got thousands of photos out of Google takeout but I can't seem to import them elsewhere in the right chronological order. I've also found some tutorials using exiftool but I can't get ...
Vulturine asked 9/12, 2020 at 3:17

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I have many photos named with a date format but the EXIF dates don't match. e.g. 2016-12-16_20-20-29.jpg Running them through EXIFTOOL I can almost overwrite the dates but it doesn't match the ex...
Magnolia asked 2/1, 2017 at 12:25

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In order to reduce the size of images to be used in a website, I reduced the quality to 80-85%. This decreases the image size quite a bit, up to an extent. To reduce the size further without compr...
Gigantopithecus asked 5/11, 2013 at 10:5

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I wish to leave Google photos, and I have downloaded all my photos using Google Takeout. Now I have a boatload of folders containing both json files (that I think contains exif data) and images. Th...
Hop asked 3/2, 2017 at 12:23

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How can I remove all the metadata from all the files inside a folder and its subfolders? I've already tried several commands without any success. All of them were tied to a specific file extension ...
Chabazite asked 14/2, 2021 at 4:44

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I want to generate one single JPEG image file for PSD formats using any software. I tried ImageMagick but it's converting every layer into different images. I also tried exiftool. It got conver...
Tower asked 5/3, 2015 at 6:43

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I have two models: Event.js: export default Model.extend({ checked : attr({ defaultValue: false }), isActive : attr(), createdAt : attr(), updatedAt : attr(), start : attr(), end : attr(), ...
Malvern asked 5/2, 2016 at 20:4

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The Google Pixel 2 and probably other phones since have the capability to cover "Motion Photos". These are saved as MVIMG and comparatively big. I’m looking for a way to remove/extract the video. ...
Nogas asked 1/11, 2018 at 16:4

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So I used exiftool -all= command line tool to remove the metadata from an image. However, when I print the metadata of the resulting image, I get this: $ exiftool myimage.jpg ExifTool Version Numb...
Thermophone asked 16/5, 2019 at 10:39

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I am on OSX, running python and trying to extra EXIF data from a large set of images in my library. I've been using Pillow so far with my JPG photos and it works like a charm. However, I stumbled ...
Incongruent asked 20/1, 2019 at 0:36

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When I remove the EXIF data from a folder with images with the Windows properties-tool, the orientation (that was already manually changed), is lost. So when I want to place all this pictures on a ...
Nonconformity asked 25/5, 2016 at 9:11

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Phil Harvey has provided some excellent examples for using Exiftool to write photo metadata at https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#WRITING-EXAMPLES. Following Phil's examples, I've had no probl...
Creaky asked 8/7, 2014 at 16:42

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I am working on a shell script with exiftool to automatically change some exif tags on pictures contained in a certain folder and I would like to use the output to get a notification on my NAS (a Q...
Oarlock asked 13/7, 2015 at 10:49

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I'm using the EXIF Tool to Copy all the EXIF Tags using the following command exiftool -TagsFromFile file1 file2 But if a file named file2 already exists in the source folder, I need the EXIF T...
Booboo asked 24/5, 2017 at 3:25

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Is there a Python library to read metadata (camera model, time created, etc ...) from video files? The Perl equivalent is "exiftool." I checked pyexiv2, but it doesn't have video support like exift...
Swath asked 9/4, 2012 at 15:2

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I have an MP4 file with Title metadata: exiftool movie.mp4 Which gives: Audio Bits Per Sample : 16 Audio Sample Rate : 48000 Handler Type : Metadata Handler Vendor ID : Apple Title : Movie Titl...
Vanthe asked 11/1, 2017 at 0:26

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I have been sorting my family photos, including some from a recovered backup drive my dad had. many of the photos were named file000268.jpg etc so I looked into renaming utilities, and ended up goi...
Silvestro asked 3/3, 2015 at 15:23

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I am curious to know whether it is possible to create a custom namespace for the XMP Dublin Core metadata? For example If I want to add a tag like mytest I can write the XMP Metadata standard tag...
Nepean asked 25/6, 2014 at 19:8

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I'm trying to get exiftool to work on my dedicated server. The issue is that PHP exec seems to run different than when a command is run as a user. Oddly enough, PHP shows up as the same user I log ...
Redmund asked 14/5, 2014 at 19:2

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I've created backups of exif information with exiftool -j -w json picture.jpg How can I now restore the exif information to the image file from the json-file? Thanks
Norwegian asked 19/3, 2014 at 22:23

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Around my image processing software I use exiftool to successfully shuffle around exif info from Cr2, TIFF, JPG files. The added tags, such as "keywords", are all visible in OSX (mountain lion) Fin...
Mugger asked 3/10, 2013 at 8:41

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I have some .jpg files without a color profile, and would like to set them to a particular color profile using exiftool. what parameter do I need to supply to do this?
Turtledove asked 18/7, 2011 at 23:3

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