video export with original time stamp

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video export with original time stamp

Hi every body

I'm a little disappointed. I want export my videos and photos from iCloud. But when I export with all gps and tag information then the file will saved on my local drive with today time stamp. This ***** very much.

On photos this is easy because the EXIF data I can recover the original date and time. But on videos I don't have EXIF data. So I loose the original date time stamp.

Who can I export videos from iCloud to local drive including the tags and gps data and keep the original date time stamp?

Thanks in advance

Andy

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Sep 2, 2016 1:44 AM

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Answer 1

Chief-Joseph Author

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Sep 2, 2016 2:42 AM in response to léonie

Thanks for answer.

Is there no other app where I can download it with this information? Apple have to think about this. This is very bad!

To correct it manually is no way. I don't want correct over 800 of videos manually!

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léonie

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Sep 2, 2016 6:24 AM in response to Chief-Joseph

Apple have to think about this. This is very bad!

The manufacturers of video software and hardware need to agree on a EXIF standard for videos. Dealing with the dates of Digital videos has been a pain since the first digital videos cameras came out. I write the date of a video directly into the filename as soon as I download it from the camera or my iPhone.

I don't know of any way to download videos from iCloud using the web interface without changing the creation date. If you access the the videos in iCloud using the Photos.app on a Mac, Photos will show the correct date.

But exporting an edited video from Photos will also save a file with a new creation date, only exporting the unmodified original will save the original date.

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Chief-Joseph Author

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Sep 2, 2016 6:44 AM in response to léonie

Hi Léonie

The problem is not there is no EXIF data. This is a mess, but this standard is in this moment so.

BUT

When I save the modified video (or photo), then I except from Apple (photo.app) that it save my file with the original creation date and time and the modified date and time from modification. This will be the right way. I except from Apple they think about such a mess. Or give me the possibility to tick an checkbox "Use the original datetime -> Yes/No" when I download the modified file. The photo.app has this information, why do they not use it?

I did a lot of work to tag every photo and video and insert into all files the gps data (inkl. videos). And when I download the files I want give them the name YYYYMMDD_hhmmss.ext or similar by a batch tool. But as I said, I have over 800 videos in the cloud, so nobody want change the file dates or file names manually by this mass of files.

Do you agree?

Cheers Andy

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léonie

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Sep 2, 2016 2:06 AM in response to Chief-Joseph

When you download from iCloud a new file will be created with the creation date of the . There is no way keep the original creation date and modification date, when you download the video using the web interface and not the Photos.app on a Mac.

You can correct the wrong creation date after the download manually with applications like "A Better Finder".

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