How do you remove EXIF data from a video?

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How do you remove EXIF data from a video?

Greetings!

My education continues...

I have made a video (my first!) and I want to share it online (not via Youtube-maybe my own link? Different question, different time I know, I know! :) ). Anyways, this video has my name and other information I would like to remove before sharing. I have seen old posts here in the forum from 2014 regarding this subject and at the time it didn't seem like there were many programs (if any) that could accomplish this on a Mac.

It's 2021. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a program or has other information that could help now?

Thank you for your time...it is always so very much appreciated!!

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.2

Posted on Jul 15, 2021 2:32 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 15, 2021 10:38 PM in response to Creator_needs_help

I have used exiftool to modify or add metadata (date, title, description, author, keywords) to movies although sadly movie metadata is poorly stardardized and many apps use that info very differently so it is a moving target.

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=12176.0

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250002750

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Answer 2

Jul 16, 2021 8:38 PM in response to Creator_needs_help

I think this is what you need. https://www.fireebok.com/resource/batch-remove-all-metadata-tags-from-video-files-on-mac.html

This program seems be able to delete all metadata tags from a video with one click.

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Answer 3

Jul 16, 2021 1:38 PM in response to Matti Haveri

Matti,

Thank you so much for your reply. That's the kind of the information I'm seeming to find everywhere I've looked so far. I wanted to make sure I asked some of you experts before I "went with" what I'm being told. Photos it seems like we can find apps etc to help...video not as much. It seems rather maddening to find a straight answer about video.

I have seen this exiftool talked about in some of the articles I've researched...now that I hear about it here too - I'm off to check it out!

Thanks again Matti! Stay safe and well.

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Answer 4

Jul 17, 2021 6:15 PM in response to BobCarith

Bob,

Thank you! This sounds very promising...I'm going to check this out for sure too!

Be well!

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How do you remove EXIF data from a video?

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