Questions tagged [exif]
Exif (Exchangeable image file format) is a specification, followed by manufacturers of digital cameras, that records information about the technical conditions for image capture within the image file itself in the form of tagged metadata.
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Create a slideshow video with the date added as a text automatically
Is there a way to Create a slideshow with the date as a caption automatically?
So basically, I want to create a slideshow video of family photos and as each image is displayed the date and time of the ...
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How do I prevent this FFmpeg scale command from removing the 'Date taken' metadata?
How do I prevent this FFmpeg command from removing the 'Date taken' (and other) metadata from JPG photographs?
ffmpeg -i "Input.JPG" -vf scale=iw*.5:-1 -update true "Output.jpg"
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Safely strip metadata from images in a folder, add a value to some tags
I have a directory structure that contains a lot of JPEG/JPG, PNG, SVG, and WEBP images in several subdirectories. I want to strip all metadata from these images except anything that would be ...
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Digital archive - solution with metadata
I am in charge of a small digital archive and I am trying to figure out how to manage it.
I have another archive of my owm, but since I am a photographer, I am spoiled by EXIF & IPTC.
The other ...
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How to add GPS data to video (geotag it)?
I want to publish/upload 360 panoramas via Google Streetview Studio. To do this I'm required to have:
Geotagged video exported from the camera
.GPX file
I have geotagged 360 panoramas instead of the ...
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exiftool rename if autofocus is off
unfortunately I have created a small problem during my vacation. I did not notice that the autofocus was turned off on a camera lens. This, of course, I created some possibly blurred images. Well ...
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How to maintain metadata when encoding WEBP or insert metadata to ready WEBP images?
I have PNG images with EXIF, XMP and IPTC metadata that I want to maintain, when I create WEBP images.
I am running a Windows computer. I have tried a few ways and I failed.
I know that WEBP doesn't ...
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How to batch convert PNGs to JPEGs and preserve timestamps in filesystem & EXIF header?
I sometimes take screenshots on my Mac during video-calls with friends/family (with their consent of course!) and would like to add those images of a photographic nature to my Apple Photos Library. I ...
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Import Face Recognition data into Apple Photos
I want to import my photo collection from Picasa into Apple Photos. Folders, Tags and Location works fine. The only missing feature is the import of face recognition data. I've spent days to tag the ...
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Windows Explorer (windows 10) crashes when rename metadata related to "track number" for FLAC files
The title pretty much says it all. I am trying to change the metadata for some FLAC files. I have tried editing via the properties menu and also via the details menu at the right. If I change the ...
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Keeping metadata in FFmpeg image sequence to video
When creating a video from an image sequence with FFmpeg, how do I also copy the metadata from the first image in the image sequence (within reason: creation date, GPS coordinates, etc.; maybe not ...
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How to apply jpeg image rotation not with Exif header mention of this rotation, but with recomputing the data on Windows 10? [duplicate]
Is this option available somewhere? I have a lot of scanned data that has reorientation from landscape to portrait in Exif files, but not in jpeg data itself. And I can't use some file uploaders like ...
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Which metadata fields Windows 10 Photo App uses while importing?
My GoPro had a depleted battery, and its date was reset. I edited the exif "Creation Date" field. Using the file explorer properties dialog I can see that it was correctly edited, But when I try to ...
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exiftool DPI disagrees with image properties on Windows 10 and the file linux command
I'm trying to use the exiftool to set the DPI on a set of images to 300
I'm using the following command:
./exiftool -jfif:Xresolution=300 -jfif:Yresolution=300 filename.jpg
I've also tried:
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how to recover deleted Photo EXIF
Apparently cropping or uploading photos to some certain Websites deletes its metadata.
I have a bunch of photos which have been cropped and then uploaded to telegram and so far I know that both ...
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Windows 7 doesn't remove all image EXIF data
Why doesn't Windows 7 remove all image EXIF data? The thing is that I don't remember this being an issue in the past. Could it be the case that Window 7 only looks for specific EXIF attributes, ...
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VBScript to extract "Date Taken" from a photo
I was wondering if the "Date Taken" property of an image file can be extracted using VBScript?
I know other properties such as date created, modified, accessed can be accessed and already have a ...
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How to order photos in File Explorer by date and time actually taken
I've run into a surprising problem keeping my photos in order in Windows.
I have photos from two Android phones and a Canon point and shoot camera that may be unedited, or edited on the phone app or ...
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How do I remove all metadata from a WebM file?
I've tried using ffmpeg, but it seems to keep all the metadata I'm actively looking to remove.
I'm looking to remove ALL metadata, including length, bitrate, etc.
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"Error 0x80070057: The parameter is incorrect" when editing JPEG metadata
When trying to change the metadata on the NYT1 2014 MU69 image taken by New Horizons image that I downloaded from a blog post, I get this error:
An unexpected error is keeping you from appying ...
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MP4 date on windows 10 explorer
I have several MP4 videos.
On windows explorer, under the column "Date", I see the wrong time stamp, it is always 3 hours LATER than the EXIF fields:
QuickTime:CreateDate
QuickTime:ModifyDate
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Is there such a thing as expiration date in EXIF datas?
In the EXIF data, we have such fields as the time the picture was taken, the location it was taken,..
My company use large quantities of photographies. Due to regulations about private data's, those ...
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Is there a way to determine the source of a photo? [closed]
Is there a way you can tell if a photo was either taken with the users camera, saved from a website, or is a screenshot?
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What is the difference between the EXIF tags CreateDate, CreationDate, etc.?
When using exiftool to analyze some videos that I have, I noticed many date tags inherent to the creation of the video itself (so not dates like the last access or modification dates). Namely, here ...
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Timestamping photos based on filename?
(I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 but this isn't necessarily Ubuntu-specific which is why I'm asking here and not on askubuntu)
I have a set of photos that I would like to date/time-stamp but some of them have ...
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How to extract EXIF creation date and set file creation date
The transfer of images from IPhone somehow screwed up the file dates.
I want to set them from EXIF data.
I already found a solution but wasn't able to convert this into a batch job. Feel free to ...
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Using ExifTool for Bulk Operations
I would like to have help please with ExifTool, for the following operations:
I have thousands of pictures scattered across dozens of sub-folders. All sub-folders are nested under a single parent ...
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Bulk Edit EXIF Tags of a Large Number of Photos
I have thousands of photos scattered across several subfolders (but all of them are under a single parent folder).
Most of those photos have values in their "Copyright" field, and that value differs ...
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JPG EXIF - Where from property
I made an image with my Samsung s7Edge. I emailed it to my gmail account. Then I downloaded the image on my Mac.
I checked the properties, and there was this property named Where from:
That had a ...
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How to recursively list images by exif tag?
I have a directory full of directories full of images, all with various "keyword" tags. How could I (in a Linux shell) list all images containing keyword1 and/or keyword2 ?
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Edit video Metadata without losing quality
I want to edit video metadata (mp4, mkv in x264) on linux without losing quality. ffmpeg re-encode the video, I don't want that. Is there a solution or an another program ?
This is my solution ...
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remove all exif tags except specified
I just want to remove all tags except a few (from jpg files). I would like to keep only the title,description and the tags.
When i'm running the following command:
exiftool -all= -tagsFromFile @ -...
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sort recovered image files with exif data to existing files
I managed to recover lots of images (canon cr2 + accompanying jpg) from a failing hard-drive with recurva.
It created a lot of files with some sort of hash-filename. So it is a bit complicated to sort ...
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Convert XMP tags from Microsoft Photo Gallery to Apple Photos
I have several thousand pictures that I described and tagged in Microsoft Photo Gallery in recent years. Because they no longer develop it, and because there seem to be better alternatives to it, I ...
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Copy photos taken between two time ranges
I am a student and photograph the blackboard often. I'm trying to sort my photos into folders, one folder for each class.
How could I copy all photos taken on Mondays and Wednesdays between 10:30 ...
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How to append a string to a tag with exiftool
Doing exiftool -Comment='This is a new comment' dst.jpg replaces any comment already present. How can I add the string instead?
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How to batch-rename photos from EXIF data?
I have a DCIM directory containing photos named as IMG_{NNNN}.JPG from iPhone and photos named as DSC_{NNNN}.JPG from Xperia.
This directory is the result of multiple directories merging, which all ...
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Is Microsoft Photo Viewer manipulating my digital camera photos on import from camera?
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I was doing some backups of my digital photos and I noticed that some of the photos were imported from my camera twice to two different folders. That's not the issue.
The issue is I was ...
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Is there something like EXIF for video?
Pictures in jpeg format use EXIF to store metadata, in case you rename the file or change its timestamp is very useful. However, I don't know if that is the case for video files. Is there any kind of ...
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Change video metadata
I have downloaded some videos that contain title metadata, which contains rubbish text.
This unfortunately causes vlc to display the title metadata when the video is played, instead of the file name.
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Rename image depending on exif
Using exiftool, would it be possible to append "-panasonic" to all filenames whose picture was taken with this camera brand ?
For example, a filename 01_01_15.jpg becomes 01_01_15-panasonic.jpg
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Rename images by date with correct time
I'd like to rename my images according to their date in EXIF information, BUT with a twist: the date in the EXIF information of one camera brand (the one named panasonic) is off by one hour (it should ...
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How do I edit a JPEG's EXIF data with Gimp?
I would like to edit a JPG EXIF data in Gimp. Perhaps I need a plugin or something, but I don't know how to search for and download the plugin. Plus, when Gimp opens a JPG it converts it to XCF format....
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How do I sort photos from two identical smartphones based on exif data?
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I use Dropbox to synchronize photos from my smartphone to my laptop. I have used a command-line utility in the past called jhead to automatically sort and rename the photos ...
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Scaling and rotation of image without depending on EXIF data?
Is there such a thing as a simple image editor for Linux which allowed for scaling and rotating the image without using EXIF data for the scaling and rotation?
So far have I tried EOG, Shotwell, and ...
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How to upload a JPG to facebook with the caption pre-embedded?
What field do I have to put my caption into to have it show up on Facebook pre-captioned?
I've been living on generating FBCMD scripts for years, but the developer has retired the project as of the ...
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Windows: how to enable tags on old image files?
I have a lot of old photos which I want to tag. For cross-platform compatibility, I want to use IPTC Keywords for tagging. As far as I read, the native Windows photo tagging capabilities use IPTC ...
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How to change wrong /missing exif data for many images at once?
First up: I'm using Windows 8.1 (Actually W10 TP, but it's close enough to 8.1).
I have roughly 32,000 pictures that I've taken over the last 7 years which 'mostly' have correct exif data.
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Multipage TIFF -- How do I remove "Subfiletype" exif tag?
I'm having some trouble with the "Subfiletype" tag in a multipage PDF. I'd like to remove the "Subfiletype" tag entirely, and make the PageNumber tag count like so: 0,1 . . 1,2 . . 2,3 instead of 0,...
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How to copy exif comments to XMP description
In my favourite photo viewing software, FastStone Image Viewer, the only way to add description to the photos is the exif comment field. However, when uploading images to filckr, the title or ...
