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Title: Changing date created for MPEGs on a Mac
Post by: kimwilliamsg on December 29, 2015, 12:33:26 AM

Hi there

I am trying to change the date of some mpeg videos, that had the wrong date set in the camera, with the date a little over 1 month off. I tried the following:

exiftool "-DateTimeOriginal+=0:1:0 23:4:0" /Users/kimwg/Desktop/Videos_Dec2015/2015-12-23/Crater

But get the following in response

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1 directories scanned
0 image files read

I'm assuming that this particular command does not work for MPEGs. If not, is there an alternative to change the metadata?

Thanks
Kim

Title: Re: Changing date created for MPEGs on a Mac
Post by: StarGeek on December 29, 2015, 12:43:30 AM

If it's an ".mpg" file, then it's not supported (see Supported File Types table (http://www.exiftool.org/index.html#supported)). I didn't think mpg files had any support for metadata anyway.

If it's a different kind of video file (mp4?), then see FAQ 16 (http://www.exiftool.org/faq.html#Q16).

Title: Re: Changing date created for MPEGs on a Mac
Post by: kimwilliamsg on January 08, 2016, 07:05:58 PM

Thanks for your reply! Sorry I missed it for so long. So if a file type in that table is listed as "R" for read only, then exiftool cannot change the data?

Title: Re: Changing date created for MPEGs on a Mac
Post by: StarGeek on January 08, 2016, 07:10:12 PM

If it's just "R", then yes, it's read only. "R/W" for read or write data.

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