Hi!
I have a lot of videos that do not have a CrateDate tag. So I would like to set it by using the following command:
exiftool -r -overwrite_original "-AllDates<FileModifyDate" "-FileCreateDate<FileModifyDate" "-FileModifyDate<FileModifyDate" "\\share\videos"
But this takes ages... even with -overwrite_original a copy of the video is created. This is very time consuming.
Is there a real "overwrite" option which justs writes the meta data to the header of the original file ?
Kind regards
fotoschubser
Quote from: fotoschubser on July 27, 2016, 01:34:24 PM
But this takes ages... even with -overwrite_original a copy of the video is created. This is very time consuming.
Is there a real "overwrite" option which justs writes the meta data to the header of the original file ?
No, there is no way around this. This is simply the way exiftool was designed to work; it will always rewrite the whole file.