Hello! First of all, thank you for this marvelous tool I just discovered! I have no problem when using it on a file by file basis. I have troubles trying to copy all metadata from multiple files to other files with the same name from a different folder. Here is the folder structure:
Source files folder: c:\Temp\Valeb
Destination files folder: c:\Temp\Valem
Each folder contains an identical number of .mov files(from MVI_1640 to MVI_1689).
I tried to run the following command:
exiftool -tagsFromfile %dc:\Temp\Valeb\%fmov -r -all:all -overwrite_original -ext mov c:\Temp\Valem
but got the following error for all the files:
Warning: Error opening file - c:/Temp/Valem/c:\Temp\Valeb\MVI_1640
...
Warning: Error opening file - c:/Temp/Valem/c:\Temp\Valeb\MVI_1689
I guess there is an error in the way I name the destination files or folder. Could you please help me whith that?
Best regards,
Oskar.
Hi Oskar,
First, you should be aware that ExifTool only writes XMP and some date/time tags to MOV videos.
To fix your problem, try -tagsfromfile c:\Temp\Valeb\%f.mov
- Phil
It works like a charm!
Thank you very much!
Oskar.
Hello! Again a small problem:
If I type the commands in a command line window and run them one by one they run fine. If I put several commands in a batch file and try to run the batch I get errors. The batch file lines look like this:
exiftool -tagsFromfile d:\RAWs\%f.mov -r -all:all -overwrite_original -ext mov d:\dest\01
exiftool -tagsFromfile d:\RAWs\%f.mov -r -all:all -overwrite_original -ext mov d:\dest\02
exiftool -tagsFromfile d:\RAWs\%f.mov -r -all:all -overwrite_original -ext mov d:\dest\03
Could you please tell me what I am doing wrong?
Many thanks!
Just found the answer:
In a Windows batch file double the %.
Thank you!!!!