Sidecar to video

[oozypal]

Hello,
I use Lightroom to organize my photos and videos. LR is poor when it comes to video metadata, so I use Digikam which creates a sidecar (xmp) file.

My question can I use Exiftool to insert the sidecar metadata into the actual video?

Thx

[StarGeek]

For MP4/Mov videos, yes. If you have other video types (AVI, MKV), exiftool cannot edit them.

See Example #15 on the Metadata Sidecar Files.  You would use the -ext (-extension) option to specify MP4/Mov files, e.g. -ext mp4 -ext mov

[oozypal]

Hi
Thank you for the quick reply. However, I am not asking about copying the xmp file into the same location of the video. I want the content of the xmp file to be written to the actual video.
Thx

[Phil Harvey]

You could do this if the file has the same name as the XMP sidecar (eg. "name.mp4" and "name.xmp"):

exiftool "-xmp<=%d%f.xmp" -ext mov -ext mp4 DIR

or if the naming is like "name.mp4" and "name.mp4.xmp":

exiftool "-xmp<=%d%f.%e.xmp" -ext mov -ext mp4 DIR

Note that these will overwrite any xmp that currently exists in the files.

- Phil

[oozypal]

Great.
Thank you.
Worked