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#11

Bug Reports / Feature Requests / AROT Missing

Last post by Neal Krawetz - Today at 01:37:17 AM

Sometime between 13.04 and 13.27, the AROT output vanished.

I had been using AROT and "Records" to detect tampering.

It looks like some of the AROT-related fields are being decoded under XMP, but AROT really is a different beast compared to XMP (or even makernotes). It really should be it's own metadata section.

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ExifTool Version Number         : 13.03
Warning                         : [minor] Unknown APP10 'AROT' segment (N=188)
Compared to 13.27, which doesn't give the warning.

The N is the number of rows (N=188).
This means there should be (N+1)*16 = 3024 rows to the picture.
If the EXIF ImageHeight is not 3024, then the image has been altered. (It could be as simple as a rotation, but it could be something else.) This example comes from an image that is 4032x3024, so the N matches.

(A match does not mean it is unaltered, but a miss means it was post-processed or altered.)

#12

ExifTool GUI / Re: ExitToolGui 6.3.8.0 - unkn...

Last post by Dinusaur - April 21, 2025, 06:10:52 PM

First thing to check is the version of ExifTool. You can do that from GUI (Help/Check Versions), or from a CMD prompt

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exiftool -ver
If you're running the latest version (as of writing 13.27), then ExifTool is (currently) not able to decode the info. In that case this thread could be moved to the 'Bug Reports / Feature Requests' (IMHO)

Frank

You are a life saver, Frank. When I initially installed the GUI I thought it would also install the tool itself, it didn't and I was running an older version, 12.84. After updating the tool to the latest version 13.27, I see everything the way it should be. Bravo.

#13

The "exiftool" Application / Re: Can I include/exclude file...

Last post by vbnut - April 21, 2025, 05:27:29 PM

Thanks for the tips.

#14

ExifTool GUI / Re: ExitToolGui 6.3.8.0 - unkn...

Last post by FrankB - April 21, 2025, 05:07:16 PM

I strongly believe that in this case ExifToolGui is only showing what ExifTool reports. If you run this command from a CMD prompt you should see the same unknown values.

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exiftool -makernotes:* <filename>
First thing to check is the version of ExifTool. You can do that from GUI (Help/Check Versions), or from a CMD prompt

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exiftool -ver
If you're running the latest version (as of writing 13.27), then ExifTool is (currently) not able to decode the info. In that case this thread could be moved to the 'Bug Reports / Feature Requests' (IMHO)

Frank

#15

ExifTool GUI / ExitToolGui 6.3.8.0 - unknown ...

Last post by Dinusaur - April 21, 2025, 04:53:19 PM

Apology if this was raised earlier and answered. I regularly run this excellent tool to analyze my photos. Recently I noticed that since Z9 firmware version 5.10, a lot of metadata is showing 'unknown' that didn't exist in the earlier version e.g. 5.00. Here are two photos of sections of metadata from the tool; first one for Z9 FW version 5.00 and the second one is from Version 5.20. The second one should read the same as in first one as nothing in the camera is changed between these frames. This could be some offset problem as new meta data added in later releases causing this problem. Any insight on this? Thanks.

#16

Metadata / Re: Movie Title, Description, ...

Last post by Phil Harvey - April 21, 2025, 02:43:31 PM

The only apparent significant difference with -s output is that the HandlerType tag turns from "Metadata Tags" to just "Metadata" and HandlerType cannot be written by exiftool (I think?).

Correct.

Maybe add the -G5 option to see the details about where the metadata is stored as this may be significant.

- Phil

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#17

Metadata / Re: Movie Title, Description, ...

Last post by StarGeek - April 21, 2025, 02:09:33 PM

Specifically GPS data disappears from QuickTime Player's get info dialog if:

1. those tags are overwritten with exiftool

@wywh will be the expert as to the exact locations that the tags should be written to. Video metadata is a complete mess, with multiple tags having the same name and part of the same group.

2. (interestingly) if the video has a segment cut from its middle using QuickTime Player itself

I don't know anything about editing with the QuickTime player (Windows user here), but it's quite common for video editing programs not copying data to newly created files. Additionally, there's a lot of data that simply can't be copied, because it is non-standard. Specifically, EXIF data and embedded GPS tracks.

exiftool output looks (nearly) identical with the exception of ordering, file modify date and similar obvious things.

Make sure you are using the command in FAQ #3, as that will show you duplicates and the groups that they belong to. The -diff option can be used to compare the differences between two files.

#18

The "exiftool" Application / Re: Set datetime from folderna...

Last post by StarGeek - April 21, 2025, 01:07:02 PM

Ive tried the command and it's not working. Should it work through exiftool gui ?

From the post directly above yours

This should work if the date is the only number in the folder name.

Your directory has 2015/2015-01-02. In other words, it's trying to set the year to 2015, then the month to 20, and the date to 15. Obviously there's no month 20, so it fails.

In order to split off the last directory name, you would use
${directory;s(.*/)()}

I would suggest using AllDates instead of DateTimeOriginal, as it will fill two other useful time stamps. You also need to specify that you want only the last

You also don't include exiftool when using ExiftoolGUI direct.

The result for the tag copy part would be something like this, though I'm not sure about the exact formatting for the GUI
"-AllDates<${directory;s(.*/)()} 00:00:00"

#19

Metadata / Re: Movie Title, Description, ...

Last post by skip - April 21, 2025, 12:32:57 PM

Just a bump because I came here with a similar problem.

Specifically GPS data disappears from QuickTime Player's get info dialog if:

1. those tags are overwritten with exiftool or
2. (interestingly) if the video has a segment cut from its middle using QuickTime Player itself

and will NOT be re-displayed in QuickTime Player's get info dialog even if the original tags are copied/pasted from the original file using exiftool.

exiftool output looks (nearly) identical with the exception of ordering, file modify date and similar obvious things.

The only apparent significant difference with -s output is that the HandlerType tag turns from "Metadata Tags" to just "Metadata" and HandlerType cannot be written by exiftool (I think?).

exiftool -HandlerType="Metadata Tags" IMG_2527.MOV
Warning: Sorry, HandlerType is not writable
Nothing to do.

Still using ExifToolVersion 12.65 though.

#20

The "exiftool" Application / Re: Set datetime from folderna...

Last post by Phil Harvey - April 21, 2025, 12:19:06 PM

What does "isn't working" mean?

What was your exact command?

What is the exact Directory name?  (eg. exiftool -directory FILE)

- Phil