Add tag by some elements of the name of the file

Started by tdm, June 19, 2013, 05:59:25 AM

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tdm

Hi,

I'm sure it's possible but I haven't found how to do it.

I have a lot of mkv files (and some avi, ts2...) and I name them like that : "Name of the film (Year, Director 1, Director 2, ...)"
For example :
"2001, A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)"
"Dracula (1931, George Melford, Enrique Tovar Avalos)"

It works great when you use the search function of windows, but you cannot sort the files like you'll do with your music.
What I'd like to do is use ExifTool to add tags to the file using elements of the title. (year and directors)
I think a regular expression will do the trick, but I have no idea of how to do it with batch.

Any suggestions ?

tdm

Phil Harvey

Sorry, but ExifTool does not yet have the ability to write metadata in video files.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).

tdm

Ok, so problem solved ^^

Thanks for your answer Phil.