exif in .mov not writeable?

[Alan Clifford]

Before posting a lot of details, I have a .mov file with existing exif data but I am wondering if it is normal for exif data not to be written to .mov.

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[EXIF:IFD0]     Make                            : FUJIFILM
[EXIF:IFD0]     Camera Model Name               : X-S1
[EXIF:IFD0]     Modify Date                     : 2019:02:13 11:47:09
[EXIF:IFD0]     Thumbnail Offset                : 952449
[EXIF:IFD0]     Thumbnail Length                : 9199
[EXIF:IFD0]     Copyright                       :
[EXIF:IFD0]     Thumbnail Image                 : (Binary data 9199 bytes, use -b option to extract)
[EXIF:ExifIFD]  Date/Time Original              : 2019:02:13 11:47:09
[EXIF:ExifIFD]  Create Date                     : 2019:02:13 11:47:09
[EXIF:ExifIFD]  Exposure Compensation           : 0


My script writes xmp gps data but not exif gps data.  So I tried
exiftool -gpslatituderef="North"  temp.mov

and get

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    0 image files updated
    1 image files unchanged


[Phil Harvey]

EXIF is non-standard in MOV videos, and ExifTool will not create it.  See the MOV entry in the supported file types list.

- Phil

[Alan Clifford]

Thanks.