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ExifTool => Newbies => Topic started by: sebm on February 09, 2023, 06:43:44 AM

Title: Create fake JPG mirrors
Post by: sebm on February 09, 2023, 06:43:44 AM
This is going to sound weird, but my approach of using XMP sidecars to get metadata into Lightroom for MTS files is failing. I have an option of using a John Beardsworth plugin that can sync same-named image files.

Is there a way to get exiftool to create a dummy jpg file with the mts metadata instead of an xmp file? This command fails

exiftool -ext mts -tagsfromfile @ -srcfile %d%f.jpg "-DateCreated<DateTimeOriginal" -r /path/to/files/

Guessing because it aint easy to create jpg files?

Tks
Title: Re: Create fake JPG mirrors
Post by: Phil Harvey on February 09, 2023, 10:13:36 AM
ExifTool won't create JPEG files out of thin air.  The best you can do is to create a blank JPEG sidecar for each MTS file then copy the metadata to that.

- Phil