Title: In Google Photos, the time changes after a few seconds.
Post by: jasonroyn on March 08, 2023, 05:01:12 PM
Post by: jasonroyn on March 08, 2023, 05:01:12 PM
I use Handbrake to compress my iPhone videos and exiftool to transfer all the metadata with this command.
And it works like a charm everywhere else except Google Photos.
I get the correct time as soon as I upload
But after a few minutes, the time shifts by +5:30hrs
I have two macs and I tried uploading using both of them, but it still changes. However when I upload it from my iPhone, the time doesn't change! That is what I've been doing for now.
Drive link for the files https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OLojvzElgcEEie7WKIrwQwhTPnbSVSZb?usp=share_link
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exiftool -TagsFromFile ORIGINAL.mov -all:all -overwrite_original COMPRESSED.mp4 And it works like a charm everywhere else except Google Photos.
I get the correct time as soon as I upload
But after a few minutes, the time shifts by +5:30hrs
I have two macs and I tried uploading using both of them, but it still changes. However when I upload it from my iPhone, the time doesn't change! That is what I've been doing for now.
Drive link for the files https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OLojvzElgcEEie7WKIrwQwhTPnbSVSZb?usp=share_link
Title: Re: In Google Photos, the time changes after a few seconds.
Post by: wywh on March 09, 2023, 03:06:07 AM
Post by: wywh on March 09, 2023, 03:06:07 AM
Neither movie has a proper date. So maybe Google Photos grabs the date from the file create date or the upload date?
The original is .mov and the compressed is .mp4. In some workflows the wrapper/suffix matters in how Google Photos displays the date but this does not seem to be the case here.
The original sample movie is 2.3 MB and the compressed 2 MB so not much space was saved with this short movie.
- Matti
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exiftool -a -G1 -s -api QuickTimeUTC=1 .
[QuickTime] CreateDate : 0000:00:00 00:00:00The original is .mov and the compressed is .mp4. In some workflows the wrapper/suffix matters in how Google Photos displays the date but this does not seem to be the case here.
The original sample movie is 2.3 MB and the compressed 2 MB so not much space was saved with this short movie.
- Matti
Title: Re: In Google Photos, the time changes after a few seconds.
Post by: jasonroyn on March 09, 2023, 03:31:01 AM
Post by: jasonroyn on March 09, 2023, 03:31:01 AM
My bad! I think the files I linked to were wrong. I apologise! :( Here's a Drive link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OLojvzElgcEEie7WKIrwQwhTPnbSVSZb?usp=share_link
Title: Re: In Google Photos, the time changes after a few seconds.
Post by: wywh on March 09, 2023, 11:48:29 AM
Post by: wywh on March 09, 2023, 11:48:29 AM
With those new movies I get the same dates in exiftool:
After uploading to Google Photos it picks that Keys 13:27:49 +05:30 for both movies in my setup.
- Matti
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exiftool -a -G1 -s -api QuickTimeUTC=1 -Time:All .
======== ./COMPRESSED.mp4
[QuickTime] CreateDate : 2021:11:07 14:37:44+02:00
[Keys] CreationDate : 2021:11:07 13:27:49+05:30
======== ./ORIGINAL.MOV
[QuickTime] CreateDate : 2021:11:07 14:37:44+02:00
[Keys] CreationDate : 2021:11:07 13:27:49+05:30
After uploading to Google Photos it picks that Keys 13:27:49 +05:30 for both movies in my setup.
- Matti