Questions tagged [exif]
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Batch set MP4 create date metadata from filename
On a Linux system,
I have a bunch of MP4 files named like 20190228_155905.mp4 but with no metadata. I've previously had a similar problem with some jpg's which I solved manually with
exiv2 -M"set ...
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why does mediainfo not give metadata of an image like exiftool does?
I have been scratching my head on this for quite some time now. Let's see what mediainfo says on an image -
$ mediainfo ZQs3vcsHiGY.jpg
General
Complete name : ZQs3vcsHiGY....
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Rename to exif date: Unique filenames without creating duplicate files
I recently posted a question about how to rename image filenames in a stable way to the exif date:
Exiv2 rename: Make unique filenames
This is a follow up question to it:
How can I additionally ...
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Rename images to exif time: Make unique filenames
If I rename images via exiv to the exif date time, I do the following:
find . -iname \*jpg -exec exiv2 -v -t -r '%Y_%m_%d__%H_%M_%S' rename {} \;
Now it might happen that pictures have exactly the ...
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Find images with same exif timestamp
How can I find all groups of images which have the same exif timestamp in a given directory from the command line in linux?
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How to adjust the Exif timestamp of a photo using the date in its name
I'm trying to get the filename of a screenshot on an Android phone (which contains the date it was taken) as a string and add it to the Exif timestamp of that screenshot (which doesn't seem to have ...
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Shell script to add different GPS data to series of photos
I have a drone that I used to make a flight movie, and I am going to use this footage to build a DEM (digital elevation model) of the topography I was filming. I can extract frames from the movie ...
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rename mov/mts files with exif data
I am trying to rename mov/mts files with their exif data. I have checked various
ways with shotwell, gthumb, etc. Although gthumb does recognise the data, it will not rename (only jpg). I also looked ...
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Why exif Orientation does not force image horizontal? [duplicate]
I am trying to have some stability in image orientations but they differ in Debian image viewer/LaTeX and with image viewers.
I do but it does not have an effect on the orientation of wrongly ...
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use `exivtool` to rename Photos by location
This is how you can rename all Jpegs in a folder by geolocation and date:
exiftool '-filename<${gpslatitude;} ${gpslongitude} ${datetimeoriginal}' -d "%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S%%-c.%%e" *.JPG
this ...
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Extract latitude/longitude from an image using curl
curl -s -v -X HEAD http://sitename.com/123.jpg 2>&1 | grep '^< Last-Modified:' gets me a date. Any way I can retrieve gps coordinates of an image? Any other metadata?
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How to strip metadata from image files
[EDIT #1 by OP: Turns out this question is quite well answered by exiftool creator/maintainer Phil Harvey in a duplicate thread on the ExifTool Forum]
[EDIT #2 by OP: From ExifTool FAQ: ExifTool is ...
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Add a new custom metadata tag
I know how to change a tag value, and how to extract tag values of a file from its metadata, and yes we have great tools like id3tag, exiftool, ffmpeg and etc.
But I need to add a completely new tag, ...
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exiv2 piped to grep - random inconsistent behavior
For a bunch of jpg photos, I have this (simplified) script to be able to extract the original date when the photo was taken (if different of 0000:00:00, not relevant for this case)
for f in *.jpg;
do ...
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Extract last line of multiline string
The output from exif looks like this:
ExifMnoteCanon: Loading entry 0xcf27 ('(null)')...
ExifMnoteCanon: Loading entry 0x3ca8 ('(null)')...
ExifMnoteCanon: Loading entry 0xf88a ('(null)')...
2013:08:...
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Bash script condition always passing even when grep should return nothing
I am having issues when trying to return the one image file that fits the parameters. $1 is the search parameter, in this incident it is "real" which is a tag on one of the images (not two) in the ...
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Copy EXIF meta data from the Keywords to the Description on a huge amount of photos in sub folders
I have over 80,000 photos that have been given proper EXIF keywords but Google Drive requires data in the Description for it to be searchable in their online app. I need to copy the contents of the ...
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How to extract comment from ppm file?
I have ppm file X.ppm with comment :
xxd X.ppm|head -10
0000000: 5036 0a23 206d 6967 6874 796d 616e 6465 P6.# mightymande
0000010: 6c20 2d32 2e38 3034 3132 3232 3037 3833 l -2.80412220783
0000020: ...
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change time (date) in or from exif-data
In question
Change file created date from JPEG EXIF metadata
there are great scripts, to update file-system date, to match date stored in the file. But what if “Date and Time (original)” are bad in ...
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Using EXIFTool to add EXIF data from filenames
There is a set of photos with timestamps in their filenames like these:
Photo on 3-09-12 at 9.24 PM #2.jpg
Photo on 3-09-12 at 9.24 PM #1.jpg
Photo on 3-09-12 at 8.23 PM.jpg
etc.
("3-09-12", ...
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How to change camera info in Exif using command line
I have analog camera and I give a film to the lab where they scan it, I wanted to upload it to flickr but want to change info about camera. Right now it's NORITSU KOKI QSS-32_33 and I wanted it to be ...
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Collect EXIF data of a directory
Is there a way to extract EXIF information of all images within a directory (into an output file)? Preferably I also need GPS data but this is not essential.
I only ask, as I have a number of ...
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Change file created date from JPEG EXIF metadata
When uploading to an ftp site, the original file create date seems to be lost, and I get the upload date instead. However, the Exif data in the file is correct. Is there a tool to batch change the ...
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Removing all tags from images [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Batch delete exif info
How can I remove all tags from images under a directory (using Linux)? I can find all files with something like find pictures -type f -iname "*jpg" -...
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How to rename all files and add image size to file name
I can`t make this work. I have a lot of images and i want to rename his name and append image size to name using exiv2
exiv2 pr * prints all info about file
# exiv2 pr 9b523e5a002268fe5067a928
File ...
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Print specific Exif image data values with exiv2
How do I print the image Exif date with a tool like exiv2?
My goal is to write the image year and month into separate variables. Do I really have to parse the output with regex or is there a ...
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How can I rename photos, given the EXIF data?
Let's say I have a bunch of photos, all with correct EXIF information, and the photos are randomly named (because of a problem I had). I have a little program called jhead which gives me the below ...
