How to disable timezone check when geotagging?

[dzeek]

I'm developing a tool to extract photos from videos from a certain 360 camera that contains a metadata track that includes GPS data. I extract the frames as JPG files and then tag each one with "-DateTimeOriginal" and "-CreateDate" based on the date the video was captured and the time of day that corresponds to the position of the frame in the video track. I extract the GPS data into a CSV file that includes the Date, Time, Lat, Lon and Heading. The dates and times are all from the timezone in which the video was captured. I then want to use the following command to interpolate the GPS data and geotag the photos:

exiftool -geotag myfile.csv *.jpg

This generates "Warning: Time is too far beyond track in File:Geotime (ValueConvInv)" errors. I want the tool to be able to be used anywhere with any video from the 360 camera. Is there a way to disable the timezone check?

Thank you

[Phil Harvey]

I think the troubleshooting section of the ExifTool geotagging page may have the answers you need.

- Phil

[dzeek]

I saw that before posting but #3 means my tool would need the complication of calculating and using the -geosync parameter depending on the timezone where the tool is run. Is there a way to avoid that by either disabling the timezone check or by formatting the times in the GPS CSV file so that they are interpretted by ExifTool as local times?

[dzeek]

I noticed the message was actually "Warning: Time is too far beyond track in File:Geotime (ValueConvInv)". Not "Warning: Time is too far before track in File:Geotime (ValueConvInv)". I corrected the original post.

Is there a way to avoid that by either disabling the timezone check or by formatting the times in the GPS CSV file so that they are interpretted by ExifTool as local times?

[Phil Harvey]

Try adding this to your command:

"-Geotime<${CreateDate}Z"

- Phil

[dzeek]

That worked! Thank you.