Batch update metadata of all files in a folder

[connectyouinc]

Hey everyone and I thank you in advance for your response. I am hung up on adding metadata back into a folder of files. I used the command:

exiftool -csv "c:\Users\Phil\Images" > "c:\Users\Phil\test.csv"

to download a CSV file of the metadata for a folder of 5 videos. I appended three columns of information into the CSV files od metadata that I would like appended to each video file. However when I use the command:
 
exiftool -csv="c:\Users\Phil\test.csv" "c:\Users\Phil\Images"

it doesn't update the metadata in the files. Is anyone able to lead me to a positive outcome here?

Thanks in Advance,

Jadynn

[StarGeek]

You can't make up names for tags.  You have to use one that already exist.

For "VideoTitle", you can use Title.  But I don't recall off hand anything comparable to your other names.  Take a look at the Quicktime tags page for something that might be close or that you can repurpose. The tag cannot have a "no" in the writable column to be written.

[connectyouinc]

Oh, WOW. Thank You!!

That makes perfect sense...I should have asked hours ago. Thank You, Thank You StarGeek!!

[StarGeek]

I should have also suggested that the Quicktime tags you should be looking at would be the ItemList, Keys, and UserData tags.  These are the most standardized ones.  But I was on my way to bed at the time.

Looking closer at these tags, I think maybe ContentID or ClipID might be reasonable for "VideoNumber".  Nothing jumps out for "FinalViewCount".  If you are not otherwise using Description or Comment, you might put it there.

[connectyouinc]

Thank You for the update StarGeek!!