Redundant but help please? Time/Date issues.....

[photogora]

If anyone can help me with a step by step I'll gladly make a donation to the website. I've spent about 10 hours reading forums and trying different things but just can't fix my issue. I've tried the standalone version of exiftool and downloading perl etc. I'm not totally computer illiterate but I'm a photographer, not a programmer and I'm on a rapidly approaching deadline now.

Yesterday I shot photos with two cameras. One was borrowed and I forgot to check that the time was set correctly. Both were Canon cameras, one a 5D and one a 5DMKII, both shot raw .cr2 files. I really need to get these photos into the same folder and sorted sequentially. I know this is probably a redundant post but I've searched and read and tried and I'm at the end of my rope. My editors are starting to get anxious.

Any help is greatly appreciated and again I will make a donation if I can get this sorted soon.

[photogora]

Additional info...I'm on Windows 7 64bit

I can open the standalone exiftool from my desktop and drag a test folder into it and it shows the data but only from the first file I think and says 1 registry scanned, 8 files read.

If I try run C:\Users\Ray\Desktop\exiftool(-k).exe "-DateTimeOriginal+=0:0:0 11:0:0" <C:\Users\Ray\Pictures\Times News\12-02-12 ELHS NC 2A Champs\test> I get files not found messages. Am I just making a simple syntax error?

[Phil Harvey]

You're shifting the time forward by 11 hours on all images in C:\Users\Ray\Pictures\Times News\12-02-12 ELHS NC 2A Champs\test ?

The command line should look like this (type this in a cmd.exe window):

"C:\Users\Ray\Desktop\exiftool(-k).exe" "-DateTimeOriginal+=0:0:0 11:0:0" "C:\Users\Ray\Pictures\Times News\12-02-12 ELHS NC 2A Champs\test"

Once you get the times synchronized properly, how did you plan to sort them sequentially?  you can rename the files like like this to give a sequential numbering scheme:

"C:\Users\Ray\Desktop\exiftool(-k).exe" -fileorder datetimeoriginal -filename="IMG%.5c.CR2" -ext cr2 "C:\Users\Ray\Pictures\Times News\12-02-12 ELHS NC 2A Champs\test"

- Phil

[photogora]

Yes Phil, I want to shift forward by 11 hours. I should have quote marks in the places just like your example and not the <> surrounding the path to the folder?

[photogora]

Awesome, that worked beautifully to change the time I needed. I was just going to combine the two folders once the times are corrected on the camera that was wrong then sort by date created in Bridge and batch rename. I think you've got me sorted. I will definitely make a donation once I get my work finished. Do you have a donation link handy?

[Phil Harvey]

Glad this did the job.

Note that there are some other date/time tags that you might want to change also: The common date/time tags are DateTimeOriginal (which you changed already), CreateDate and ModifyDate.  You can change all 3 at once with the AllDates shortcut tag.

But if your only goal was to get the images sorting properly in Bridge, and DateTimeOriginal did the job, then there may be no need to change the other date/time tags.

There is a donation link here on the ExifTool home page.

- Phil

[photogora]

Thanks, again Phil. I'm not done yet but I got where I needed to be and staved off a nervous breakdown. I'll have to update some info on paypal tomorrow.

[photogora]

Thank you again 

[Phil Harvey]

Thanks!  I got your donation!

- Phil