Importing AVCHD from a sony camera leads to incorrect date in photos, but not in iPhoto. All videos have a date corresponding to the file modification date on the removable disk, but this is not the actual date of the video, which is held either in the file itself or somewhere else. All files imported have the same (wrong) date.
Please fix!
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
You're not talking to Apple here.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html is the place for feature requests and feedback
You're not talking to Apple here.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html is the place for feature requests and feedback
Absolutely. Let me rephrase. Does anybody have a work around!?
I also am having this problem. I've already deleted the video from the memory card after import. Is there any way to determine the correct time stamp?
pixelelated wrote:
I also am having this problem. I've already deleted the video from the memory card after import. Is there any way to determine the correct time stamp?
You can try opening iPhoto and see if it will import the videos again. I'm not sure how AVCHD is deleted since all clips are stored in one big file.
I have followed Terrence's link and filed feedback with apple. I have also filed an official bug report as this is definitely a bug. Until then, import videos into iPhoto and then drag them from iPhoto to photos.
I managed to manually put in the right timestamps by using pyexiftoolgui, a UI for the excellent exiftool. That allowed me to find the correct creation dates. I also filed an official bug.
pixelelated wrote:
I managed to manually put in the right timestamps by using pyexiftoolgui, a UI for the excellent exiftool. That allowed me to find the correct creation dates. I also filed an official bug.
Glad you could rescue that data. However, this is a deal breaker for photos for me. I'm reverting to iPhoto until they fix it.
I have 288 picture to do it. It`s a primary issue.
I was having the same issues. If you are a Mac User, I may have a solution for you: I wrote a script that uses ffmpeg to rewrap the video file from MTS to m4v without touching the video or audio (it just removes the subtitle stream). The trick is that it takes the file's timestamp and embeds it in the m4v meta data.
In a future version I may extract the timestamp from the subtitle stream which actually contains it, but that's not necessary for me.
That means obviously that each MTS file needs to have the right date (which is the case for my cameras).
If you don't trust the app, just open it in the AppleScript Editor and have a look at the source code.
You also need to install ffmpeg from ffmpeg.org to a known path.
You are free to adapt the script to your needs. Please share your results again with us.
Good luck
Here's the file:
AVCHD video date is incorrect on import
