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ExifTool => Newbies => Topic started by: connectyouinc on June 27, 2023, 11:59:10 PM

Title: Batch update metadata of all files in a folder
Post by: connectyouinc on June 27, 2023, 11:59:10 PM
Hey everyone and I thank you in advance for your response. I am hung up on adding metadata back into a folder of files. I used the command:

exiftool -csv "c:\Users\Phil\Images" > "c:\Users\Phil\test.csv"

CSV.pngto download a CSV file of the metadata for a folder of 5 videos. I appended three columns of information into the CSV files od metadata that I would like appended to each video file. However when I use the command:
 
exiftool -csv="c:\Users\Phil\test.csv" "c:\Users\Phil\Images"

it doesn't update the metadata in the files. Is anyone able to lead me to a positive outcome here?

Thanks in Advance,

Jadynn
Title: Re: Batch update metadata of all files in a folder
Post by: StarGeek on June 28, 2023, 01:01:20 AM
You can't make up names for tags.  You have to use one that already exist.

For "VideoTitle", you can use Title.  But I don't recall off hand anything comparable to your other names.  Take a look at the Quicktime tags page (https://exiftool.org/TagNames/QuickTime.html) for something that might be close or that you can repurpose. The tag cannot have a "no" in the writable column to be written.
Title: Re: Batch update metadata of all files in a folder
Post by: connectyouinc on June 28, 2023, 01:12:10 AM
Oh, WOW. Thank You!!

That makes perfect sense...I should have asked hours ago. Thank You, Thank You StarGeek!!
Title: Re: Batch update metadata of all files in a folder
Post by: StarGeek on June 28, 2023, 11:21:46 AM
I should have also suggested that the Quicktime tags you should be looking at would be the ItemList (https://exiftool.org/TagNames/QuickTime.html#ItemList), Keys (https://exiftool.org/TagNames/QuickTime.html#Keys), and UserData (https://exiftool.org/TagNames/QuickTime.html#UserData) tags.  These are the most standardized ones.  But I was on my way to bed at the time.

Looking closer at these tags, I think maybe ContentID or ClipID might be reasonable for "VideoNumber".  Nothing jumps out for "FinalViewCount".  If you are not otherwise using Description or Comment, you might put it there.
Title: Re: Batch update metadata of all files in a folder
Post by: connectyouinc on June 30, 2023, 08:27:27 PM
Thank You for the update StarGeek!!