Live Photos

[neebah]

When separated from the photos app Live photos consist of an image and a video file.  Each file contains a Content-ID in the makernotes somewhere.  How would one go about processing a group of live photos and videos by their content-ID into numbered folders

[StarGeek]

Can you give an example of what this Content-ID and what you want the resulting folder name to be?  Have you figured out the tag that contains this Content-ID?

And to go off on a tangent, can you provide a small example of a Live Photo?  Say just a couple seconds of the floor.  I see questions about this on StackOverflow every so often and haven't been able to find an actual sample to examine.

[neebah]

Its actually called ImageUniqueID  https://exiftool.org/TagNames/Apple.html

[neebah]

Actually my apologies.  It's called ContentIdentifier and is stored as a makernote in the image and a key in the video

[Phil Harvey]

To sort these into folders (in the current directory) based on their ContentIdentifier, you would do this:

exiftool "-directory<contentidentifier" DIR

- Phil

[neebah]

what if I wanted to name the directory that they are stored into by the images datetimeoriginal tag

[Phil Harvey]

OK then, what was all this talk about ContentIdentifier?

Sorting by DateTimeOriginal is easy.  You'll find lots of examples in the forum and here.

- Phil

[neebah]

Sorry I didn't make that clear.  Grouping the folder by ContentIdentifier, but naming the folder by the DateTimeOriginal

[neebah]

So let's say I got a video and image dated 2018-01-12 12:00:00 and its content id is A1234

I would like both of those files in a folder titled 2018-01-12 12:00:00 because they have the same contentID of A1234

and then continuing down the rest of the directory repeatedly placing items with matching contentID's into folder with dates for the name. 

[Phil Harvey]

So you are saying that the video and image have different dates, but you want to use the video date for the folder?

This can be done, but will be a bit complicated if the file names are unrelated.  Is this what you want?  How are the files named?

- Phil

[neebah]

Image date preferably.  For the sake of brevity in the last post I just pretended that the image and video had the same date. 

Files are named IMG_0027.heic and IMG_00027.mov and similar.  I don't actually want any file renaming.  I can handle that end of it.  Just the folder grouping and naming of the folder. 

[Phil Harvey]

There's and extra zero in the name of the MOV file?  Maybe something like this then:

exiftool -tagsfromfile "%d%4f%-4f.heic" "-directory<createdate" -d %Y/%m/%d -ext heic -ext mov DIR

- Phil