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ExifTool is a platform-independent library & CLI application for reading/writing metadata in a wide variety of file types. Most notably, ExifTool can modify EXIF tags in digital images, and ID3 tags in songs.

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I have the following folder tree (for example) C:\test\subfolder1\maybeSubsubfolder1\maybeMoreSubfolders \maybeSubsubfolder2\maybeMoreSubfolders \... \...
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I have 10s of thousands of JPG photos in multiple sub-folders under a single folder and quite a few of these picture files have no keywords in their metadata. I want to find a way to scan through all ...
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I'm trying to calculate the total duration of multiple .mp4 files using exiftool. The command I’m using successfully outputs the total duration, but I receive the following warning for one of the ...
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I am generating jpgs which default to 72dpi when born. I want to change the dpi from the command line. I can use exiftool to change dpi metadata like this: exiftool -a -XResolution=300 -YResolution=...
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This script is supposed to copy the file name and set it as the title (EXIF metadata) of the video, I got the ExifTool command to from the Video Stack Exchange, and it worked as expected, but I now ...
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I have the following command executed under Ubuntu App on Windows 11: ffmpeg -i "$mp4_file" \ -metadata:s:s:0 language=eng \ -metadata title="My Title Is Here Guys!" \ -...
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I am trying to make sense of the QuickTime/TrackCreateDate value obtained for a file created by camera recording on an iPhone 15, latest OS. In this case, I was in Japan at the time. According to ...
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I received some photos from a photographer. When I use exiftool I discover that the timezone of the photographer's camera was incorrect. Create Date : 2024:04:21 05:40:41-05:00 ...
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I have an MP4 from a GoPro with a gpstrack included. Now I am trying to extract a geotagged image sequence from that video. For that I am currently using FFmpeg and exiftool; I'm open to better ...
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I have a (Dolby Vision) video file test.mp4 but has hev1 in video track Codec ID (ffmpeg) or Compressor ID (exiftool) exiftool -CompatibleBrands -CompressorID test.mp4 Compatible Brands :...
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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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After looking at examples in man exiftool, it seemed the right command would be exiftool -geotag dir-1/…175814.gpx -geosync=-3600 dir-2 All 36 photos (.jpg) and videos (.mp4) were taken with the ...
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I have a series of lines with arbitrary number of comma separated values, and then a hash marked comment. The challenge is, using only PCRE2 regex for use in PERL, to do the following: Store the ...
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ExifTool is a powerful tool for modifying meta data on images. What is the simple command line to specify the location for an image?
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ExifTool is a powerful tool for modifying meta data on images. What is the simple command line to specify the date and time for an image?
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