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Hello, I'm having some trouble here.

I have two .mov files. Except one has a keys section with encoder information and the other one does not. So I want to copy all metadata from the first copy and paste it onto the second copy.

I can see the difference on the Exiftool GUI, but it doesn't allow editing of that particular metadata. I can only see it in the 'ALL' section. It's all the way at the bottom when I scroll down in the ---Keys--- section.

 So I'm trying to use commands.

Here's what I did:

1. Used ffprobe to get all metadata info from file 1 (exported into .txt file in json format). I renamed it new_metadata.txt

2. I attempted to use the command:

Quoteexiftool -overwrite_original -@ new_metadata.txt copy2.mov

With copy2.mov being the file whose metadata I want to replace.

3. I got this error:

QuoteError: File not found - {
Error: File not found - "streams": [
Error: File not found - {
Error: File not found - "index": 0,
Error: File not found - "codec_name": "h264",
Error: File not found - "codec_long_name": "H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10",
Error: File not found - "profile": "High",
...
    1 image files read
  124 files could not be read

Exiftool isn't reading the .txt or json files correctly. So I rewrote each line into plain text instead of json format and it gave me this error:

QuoteError: File not found - Title: QuickTime / MOV
Error: File not found - Author:
...

Same thing.

I simply want to take all the metadata from one copy and paste it onto another copy.

If this isn't possible, I'd at least like to figure out a command that would manually allow me to edit the --Keys-- section and input the relevant encoder information.

The specific tags and values I am trying to add all the way at the end of the 'All' section are:

Quote----Keys----
Hw: 1
Bitrate: 4608000
ID: 9a61f7b0523d68e4a713c59e7f8b2dc5
Software: {"TEEditor":"2","isFastImport":"0","publicMode":"1","source":"1","te_is_reencode":"0","transType":"0"}
Maxrate: 0
Source: 1
Te Is Reencode: 0
Writer Type: -1
Encoder: Lavf57.71.100

Thanks.

Quote from: johndunce on September 16, 2023, 11:37:30 AMtwo .mov files. Except one has a keys section with encoder information and the other one does not. So I want to copy all metadata from the first copy and paste it onto the second copy

Could you use TagsFromFile for this? Try something like:

Copy all tags from one movie to another and set file dates:

exiftool -m -overwrite_original -api QuickTimeUTC=1 -api LargeFileSupport=1 -TagsFromFile source.mp4 -All:All '-FileCreateDate<QuickTime:CreateDate' '-FileModifyDate<QuickTime:CreateDate' destination.mp4
Or copy all tags from .mov to a same name .mov (change the suffix in the command for .mp4 or .m4v) in a different folder and set file dates (adjust the file paths accordingly):

exiftool -m -overwrite_original -api QuickTimeUTC=1 -api LargeFileSupport=1 -TagsFromFile '/.../source_folder/%f.mov' -All:All '-FileCreateDate<QuickTime:CreateDate' '-FileModifyDate<QuickTime:CreateDate' '/.../destination_folder'
Or copy all tags from movies to all same name and same suffix movies in a different folder and set file dates (adjust the file paths accordingly):

exiftool -m -overwrite_original -api QuickTimeUTC=1 -api LargeFileSupport=1 -TagsFromFile '/.../source_folder/%f.%e' -All:All '-FileCreateDate<QuickTime:CreateDate' '-FileModifyDate<QuickTime:CreateDate' '/.../destination_folder'
- Matti