Hi all,
Very new here and trying my best to understand things.
I have a lot of video files that I have been renaming in the MAC finder, but when some of them appear in the VLC playlist, they still show the original file name.
Example, I named file "Movie 1.mp4" to "NEWfilecopy.mp4" But it shows upon the VLC playlist was "Movie 1.mp4"
What is the command line I should be using to change it from its original file to the new one, or to just strip the original file so that VLC shows the new name in the playlist?
NOTE: The ones that do not have this issue do not have the TRACK "" NAME identifiers, so can I just strip those? (if so, how?)
When I look at the metadata it looks like this:Tims-Mac-mini:~ timsmith$ exiftool /Volumes/timdisk/00024\ NEWfile\ copy.mp4
ExifTool Version Number : 11.99
File Name : 00024 NEWfile copy.mp4
Directory : /Volumes/timdisk
File Size : 135 MB
File Modification Date/Time : 2020:06:11 12:42:42-07:00
File Access Date/Time : 2020:06:11 12:44:31-07:00
File Inode Change Date/Time : 2020:06:11 12:42:42-07:00
File Permissions : rwxr-xr-x
File Type : MP4
File Type Extension : mp4
MIME Type : video/mp4
Major Brand : MP4 Base Media v1 [IS0 14496-12:2003]
Minor Version : 0.2.0
Compatible Brands : isom, iso2, avc1, mp41
Movie Header Version : 0
Create Date : 2019:08:28 09:33:19
Modify Date : 2019:08:28 09:33:19
Time Scale : 1000
Duration : 0:16:26
Preferred Rate : 1
Preferred Volume : 100.00%
Preview Time : 0 s
Preview Duration : 0 s
Poster Time : 0 s
Selection Time : 0 s
Selection Duration : 0 s
Current Time : 0 s
Next Track ID : 3
Track Header Version : 0
Track Create Date : 2019:08:28 09:33:19
Track Modify Date : 2019:08:28 09:33:19
Track ID : 1
Track Duration : 0:16:26
Track Layer : 0
Track Volume : 0.00%
Image Width : 711
Image Height : 400
Graphics Mode : srcCopy
Op Color : 0 0 0
Compressor ID : avc1
Source Image Width : 720
Source Image Height : 400
X Resolution : 72
Y Resolution : 72
Bit Depth : 24
Pixel Aspect Ratio : 80:81
Video Frame Rate : 30
Track 1 Name : MOVIE 1.mp4
Matrix Structure : 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Media Header Version : 0
Media Create Date : 2019:08:28 09:33:19
Media Modify Date : 2019:08:28 09:33:19
Media Time Scale : 44100
Media Duration : 0:16:26
Media Language Code : und
Handler Description : SoundHandler
Balance : 0
Audio Format : mp4a
Audio Channels : 2
Audio Bits Per Sample : 16
Audio Sample Rate : 44100
Track 2 Name : MOVIE 1.mp4
Handler Type : Metadata
Handler Vendor ID : Apple
Title : MOVIE 1.mp4
Encoder : Lavf58.20.100
Comment : MOVIE 1.mp4
XMP Toolkit : Image::ExifTool 11.99
Camera Model Name : X100S
Media Data Size : 140408689
Media Data Offset : 1071647
Image Size : 711x400
Megapixels : 0.284
Avg Bitrate : 1.14 Mbps
Rotation : 0
Thanks!
TIm
What is the output of this command
exiftool -G1 -a -s -*track* /Volumes/timdisk/00024/NEWfile/copy.mp4
That will help figure out the actual names of the tags. It might be that exiftool will be unable to write the the tags.
Error: File not found - /Volumes/timdisk/00024/NEWfile/copy.mp4
This is the result. Thanks
Change the last bit to the actual path to your file.