Wondering if anyone has a thought as to why Photos always puts any movies uploaded one hour ahead of the actual time recorded on the file. I'm assuming it has something to to with daylight saving but is there a way of switching this off as it puts them out of chronological order with the photos. I have to manually adjust the time to put them back in order.
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
Have you been in a different timezone when you took the videos? When you import photos and videos, Photos is trying to guess the timezone the photos and videos have been taken. If a photo is tagged with GPS; Photos will use the timezone of the GPS location. If a photo or video does not have GPS tags, Photos will use the timezone of your current system time. As videos do not have GPS tags, you may end up with different timezones for the videos and photos. You can adjust the timezone for all videos at once, if you select them together in the Video album.
And did you import the videos directly from the card into photos or first into a different folder outside Photos? Since the videos are not having embedded EXIF capture date tags, Photos will use the file creation date of the video files as the capture date. This date may change, when you copy the videos to a different volume before importing them.
Have you been in a different timezone when you took the videos? When you import photos and videos, Photos is trying to guess the timezone the photos and videos have been taken. If a photo is tagged with GPS; Photos will use the timezone of the GPS location. If a photo or video does not have GPS tags, Photos will use the timezone of your current system time. As videos do not have GPS tags, you may end up with different timezones for the videos and photos. You can adjust the timezone for all videos at once, if you select them together in the Video album.
And did you import the videos directly from the card into photos or first into a different folder outside Photos? Since the videos are not having embedded EXIF capture date tags, Photos will use the file creation date of the video files as the capture date. This date may change, when you copy the videos to a different volume before importing them.
Hi léonie
No not different timezones. This happens with photos and videos taken at same time and happens wether I'm in England (where I live) or elsewhere.
Interestingly it doesn't happen with photos and videos taken with my iPhone. Only with camera or GoPro.
Strangely iPhoto/Aperture has no problem displaying correctly nor does another app I use for date/time changing.
Your explanation seemed to make sense, so on the back of that I just used EXIFTOOL to look at the EXIF info in the background of two photos and two videos taken at same time. One set of photo and video from camera and one set from iPhone.
Even more interestingly the iPhone movie file shows the create date an hour earlier than actually taken! So it seems Apple are preparing the EXIF data in the file so that it is read correctly by Photos? But that doesn't explain why it displays correctly in iPhoto/Aperture. I thought it may be something simple I was missing but it is obviously more complicated, and very annoying.
I've just re-run the experiment again. Taking a photo and video from my camera and the same on my iPhone. The results came out the same, both .JPG's on the iPhone and camera the .MP4 file from the camera had the correct and same time stamp across the many fields showing timestamp in the EXIF details. The .MOV file from my iPhone the time stamp was 1 hour earlier in most but not all of the fields.
When I uploaded the four files to Photos they showed the correct time except the .MP4 file from my camera which was an hour later. Uploading to iPhoto and all were showing the correct time.
In your experience who should I raise this with as there is clearly and issue.
many thanks
Why does Photos put my movies one hour ahead
