Check for sidecar files

Started by MOL, June 16, 2012, 11:48:18 AM

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eserym

Thank so much for this tool. Please excuse my ignorance advance. I'm in a little crisis and my question might have been covered already.

I have been called on a project as a video editor. A lot of the footage that I am to edit, has been logged by an assistant using an excel spreadsheet (Go figure!). I know that exiftool doesn't necessarily deal with video files, but I was thinking that with the concept of "sidecar" might help me accelerate the process.

Here's my question: would it be possible to take that spreadsheet, convert the data into an XMP file that I would then attach to the video files as sidecar?

Thank you for you help.

Phil Harvey

The only problem is that ExifTool won't parse arbitrary-format input files.  If you can format the input as JSON, ExifTool XML or exiftool arguments, then you can use the -j, -X or -@ options.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).