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Does anyone else have issues with the dates for video files you import? Whenever I import photos and videos into Photos, the picture files import their dates properly but all the video files do not (instead they put today's date). I can see the date for the file when I see the un-imported file, but somehow Photos does not. For a few videos, it is not a big deal to fix this manually, but it should work automatically.
Thanks!
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
It can't work automatically as the date your video is shot is not recorded.
Photographs have Exif metadata. This is written to the photo file when the camera creates it. Among other things this records the date and time of the shot. Regardless of what the file says, photography apps get their date and time from the Exif.
Virtually no video has Exif. Simply the actual date and time is not recorded when you shoot the video. Happenstance gives to the file date (and that can change as a file is moved/copied etc.). So, name the files to include the date is the tedious, but ultimately the safest way to do it.
It can't work automatically as the date your video is shot is not recorded.
Photographs have Exif metadata. This is written to the photo file when the camera creates it. Among other things this records the date and time of the shot. Regardless of what the file says, photography apps get their date and time from the Exif.
Virtually no video has Exif. Simply the actual date and time is not recorded when you shoot the video. Happenstance gives to the file date (and that can change as a file is moved/copied etc.). So, name the files to include the date is the tedious, but ultimately the safest way to do it.
Issue with importing dates for video files
