Photos - Video Import date error

The solution to this problem, no date or wrong date when you import into Apple Photos app, is to NOT have Apple Photos app automatically import video when you attach it to your Mac, it is to import your Sony video into iMovie using File > Import Media, command-I.

I had this same problem where all of the files I imported from a Sony HDRSR11 were dated with the date (December 31, 2007) from my AVCHD file that I transferred from my camera to my MacBook Pro hard drive. I launched iMovie and all of them came in wonderfully 🙂, with the right date, AND time I think if you click the i icon on the top right of iMovie. I could not get the latest version of the Sony application to do anything, it froze (in Yosemite) when I tried to import the video of the camera. Hope this helps someone else.

Best, Brad

I have the same issue: In my case Photos will repeatedly import all the videos on the camera, always marking all of them as the same date and time (in my case 23 August 2013), never recognising them as already imported. They also have different file names, different file sizes (slightly smaller) and different reported frame rates (24.8fps vs 25fps) vs the versions of the same clips imported by iPhoto so it is very hard to de-duplicate them! I have noticed almost identical symptoms with two Sony cameras: a Cybershot DSC-TX30 and a DSC-HX300. Just the marked import date is different. In both cases photos import correctly.

Some more information: I contacted Sony and they said they can't help as they only support PhotoMemories Home, and the dates do show up correctly in that. The date the videos come in with is the date of first use of that SD card. The videos import with correct dates in iPhoto. I suspect it is something to do with the way Photos reads AVCHD, or the way that Sony writes AVCHD. To check that it was nothing to do with my settings I set up a fresh new user account and got the same symptoms.

I raised the issue with Apple Care, and there is always this: https://www.apple.com/feedback/

I imagine the best results are if you are on the developer programme and can submit a bug report, but I am not.

Incidentally, this issue is now marked as solved, when it isn't really - I don't know if you can un-mark it?

I have the same problem on a Sony Alpha 7.

1) It imports videos with the card format date. I formatted my card yesterday, so all videos import as if they were shot yesterday.

I reformatted the card today, now videos have today's date.

2) If you ONLY have videos, they will not import. The "import" tab does not appear at the top of Photos.

Sony's application PlayMemories, and VLC both show the correct date.

report to Apple - https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

LN

I submitted feedback with Fairy Dust fantasy that it does some good. https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

Has anybody tried reformatting the card on a PC or Mac, rather than the camera? I'm reluctant to reformat mine in the hope that I will get the videos to import to Photos with correct dates at some point. It would at least eliminate the formatting (as distinct from file writing) as a cause.

I have tried tried formatting the SD card on the mac and it doesn't help (time on the movie is staying as time formatted) when shot in AVCHD.

Changed to MP4 setting and it everything is fine on import

I will stick to this for now

I have the same issue on an SD card I have used successfully with iphotos for three years (formatted in a sony A77DSLR). The app appears to be reading the creation timestamp of the clip or stream directories in the AVCHD package. I have 17 MTS files inside that package. None have the creation date time stamp of the directory in which they are stored on the SD card. However, they all have that directory timestamp once imported into photos. Clearly an app import problem. Come on Apple. Fix this.

I had the same problem, and have solved it. Here is how to import the AVCHD video files while keeping their timestamps.

• Find the files by following the directions here: https://us.en.kb.sony.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/34494/c/65,66/p/40096,40097,70 000,70003/
• That document doesn't mention it, but you will need to open some of those folders by using "Show package contents"
• Drag the video files in to Photos

However, the files are not playable. Don't do this. There is no solution yet.