Exif and .mov

[Alan Clifford]

Hi Phil, maybe I am being a tad pedantic here.

Your table of supported file types shows only R for exif for mov,qt files but I appear to be able to write to an exif tag.

exiftool -G -a -majorbrand -copyright x-s1_2039.mov

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[QuickTime]     Major Brand                     : Apple QuickTime (.MOV/QT)
[EXIF]          Copyright                       :


exiftool -copyright="Alan Clifford" x-s1_2039.mov

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exiftool -G -a -majorbrand -copyright x-s1_2039.mov

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[QuickTime]     Major Brand                     : Apple QuickTime (.MOV/QT)
[EXIF]          Copyright                       : Alan Clifford
[XMP]           Copyright                       : Alan Clifford


This is on OSX 10.9.5, Exiftool 9.53

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Alan,

Thanks for pointing this out.  I'll have to look into this.  This unexpected feature has not been tested.

- Phil

[Phil Harvey]

After a lot of testing, I have found and fixed a couple of problems writing EXIF in MOV videos.  ExifTool 9.78 will add official support for this.

Thanks again for bringing this to my attention.

- Phil