How do you remove EXIF data from a video shot on an iPhone5s?

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How do you remove EXIF data from a video shot on an iPhone5s?

I'm trying to remove location metadata from a video of my daughter before posting to YouTube and can't figure it out. I tried opening the video in Adobe Premiere and Bridge and both don't display the location data for some reason, they fields are just blank. But I can see the locaction data if opened in Quicktime or iPhoto, but neither program allows you to edit the EXIF data for some reason. And any app I find seems to only work on photos and not videos. Any thoughts? I'd love to upload this video without revealing our exact location. Thanks.

iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1

Posted on May 14, 2014 8:22 AM

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Answer 1

databish

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Dec 16, 2015 4:57 PM in response to boldelox

This is too late to be helpful to you, but the easiest solution I found was to use handbrake and re-encode in the same format. I tried going to ProRes and back with compressor, but that didn't clean it out.

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Barney-15E

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May 14, 2014 10:37 AM in response to boldelox

This is the only way I know how to edit the metadata.

http://tinyapps.org/blog/mac/201011300700_os_x_edit_metadata.html

There might be some apps that do it, but I don't know of any myself.

You might be able to strip all metadata off a copy of the file by using the -norsrc option of the ditto command.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ man1/ditto.1.html

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boldelox Author

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May 14, 2014 8:58 AM in response to Yer_Man

Well, it's not really an iPhone question, as I'm working on a MacBookPro, the video was just taken on an iPhone which is why I mentioned it. So if video doesn't have EXIF data, I guess I'm asking how to remove or edit the geolocation data and/or any other metadata from a video originally shot on an iPhone. Thanks.

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