Comment by StarGeek on How to pipe exiftool into qpdf in bash?
I do not believe that qpdf has the ability to batch edit files by itself.
View ArticleComment by StarGeek on Trying to write special characters with exiftool in...
This is ExifTool FAQ #18. There's something about the Perl libraries that exiftool uses that doesn't deal well with Windows command line. Note that there are no problems on Linux/Mac. On my system, I...
View ArticleComment by StarGeek on ImageMagick extract dominant colors from an image in...
The dominantcolor link no longer works and the whole Fred's ImageMagick Scripts page seems to be gone. @fmw42, is this a permanent thing?
View ArticleComment by StarGeek on Is there any way to convert Exif Byte Orders of a JPG...
Is there a specific reason you think you need to do this? Because this only changes the byte order in the EXIF data block and does not affect the rest of the jpeg in any way. Any properly written...
View ArticleComment by StarGeek on In Powershell, How can I prepend the date/time an...
I do not know if this will work under PowerShell. A lot of standard exiftool commands fail on PS due to its different handling of quotes and characters needing to be escaped.
View ArticleComment by StarGeek on How to correctly have or extract the created datetime...
Look at the Properties->Details tab to see if there is a "Media created" created entry. Also, it appears that the filename holds the correct timestamp, same as your video link. Any reason not to...
View ArticleComment by StarGeek on Exiftool move files to directory with filename minus...
Same question on the Exiftool forums, which is answered by the author of exiftool
View ArticleComment by StarGeek on WPF BitmapImage complains about EXIF corrupt metadata
EXIF data isn't necessary to view a jpg. All your other tools are skipping over that part to the actual image data.
View ArticleComment by StarGeek on How to clear all metadata of a copy of an image file?
One minor thing. You don't need to worry about BMAP images. They cannot contain any embedded metadata.
View ArticleComment by StarGeek on Add keywords to IPTC from same named txt files using...
I assume when you say "exact same of the image", you mean "exact same name of the image"? As in "Img_001.jpg" has a corresponding "Img_001.txt"?
View ArticleComment by StarGeek on How can I copy metadata to modified image in python?
Make sure you are using the newer, updated fork of pyexiftool and use the copy_tags() function.
View ArticleComment by StarGeek on Extracting thumbnail/preview image from DNG file using...
Finder and cloud drive might simply be reading the whole file to create a thumbnail. Windows will do this and save the result in a file called Thumbs.db in each folder. Reading some posts seems to...
View ArticleAnswer by StarGeek for How to change Media Created Date in Exiftool?
First you will probably want to rename the exiftool(-k).exe to just exiftool.exe and place it someplace in your PATH (see install exiftool-Windows). There is also Oliver Betz's Alternative Exiftool...
View ArticleAnswer by StarGeek for bulk join json with jpg from Google Takeout not working
You are confusing the File System time stamps with the embedded time stamps. Add this to your command, so that you will write embedded time stamps as well as file system time...
View ArticleAnswer by StarGeek for exiftool: extract "Cre ate Date" for avi, mpg, mkv,...
Different formats have different tags due to different standards (see Standards). Additionally, adding such data depends entirely on the program that created the file. Many programs simply do not...
View ArticleAnswer by StarGeek for Determining the original recording date of a video file
First a minor nitpick. Not all metadata is EXIF data. Your output shows mostly Quicktime data (and file system data), which is the standard used in video. EXIF data can exist in a video file, but it is...
View ArticleAnswer by StarGeek for rename image file using its Picasa name tags
Use the command in exiftool FAQ #3 to find the exact name of the tag you want to copy from.Once you find that, your command would be this, replacing TAG with the tag name you found from above.exiftool...
View ArticleAnswer by StarGeek for exiftool—writing one tag by adding/subtracting from...
First the answer, but see below for some possible complications.If the time shift was the same for both values, then you would use the GlobalTimeShift option, but since that is not the case, you need...
View ArticleAnswer by StarGeek for Reading complete metadata from images in Python
The closest you could come to exiftool would be exiv2. You might try the exiv2 python interface.
View ArticleAnswer by StarGeek for write xmp data to all jpeg files in a folder
Your command will beexiftool -r --ext xmp -tagsfromfile %d%f.xmp -all:all /path/to/files/See Metadata Sidecar Files example #15.The -r (-recurse) option allows recursion into subdirectories. Remove it...
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