Video EXIF for date tokens

Hi, This is my first post. I'm a long time Lightroom user and because of the "innovative" commercial Adobe Policy, I'm looking for a new software for basic catalogging and good RAW conversion. I'm trying and testing C1P since 1 week. So far so good, I'm really impressed, up to the point that I would come back to Lightroom only with a high reluctance. I'm actually about to switch but I have only one issue which is so important to me that it would me prevent to do so.

From time to time, I use to push the record video button of my cam. And I'd like to import the resulting video clips at the same time I import everything else. Beside, I store files in a [YEAR]\[MONTH]\[DAY]\[FILENAME] folder structure and I want to continue to do so. Tokens are my friend and it is OK for stills. But as far as I can tell, C1P is not able to retreive the capture time in the EXIF info, so I end up with "EmptyName" folders and subfolders for my video files. Is there a solution ?

I'm running Windows 8.1 up to date, Media Player Installed. Exiftool can fond the capture time in many fields, so the files seem to be OK. Sample :

ExifTool Version Number         : 9.98
File Name                       : 2015.05.17-17.09.33.mov
Directory                       : .
File Size                       : 1282 MB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2015:05:17 17:13:04+02:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2015:05:21 18:28:44+02:00
File Creation Date/Time         : 2015:05:21 18:28:44+02:00
File Permissions                : rw-rw-rw-
File Type                       : MOV
File Type Extension             : mov
MIME Type                       : video/quicktime
Major Brand                     : Apple QuickTime (.MOV/QT)
Minor Version                   : 2011.7.0
Compatible Brands               : qt
Movie Header Version            : 0
Create Date                     : 2015:05:17 17:09:33
Modify Date                     : 2015:05:17 17:09:33
Time Scale                      : 360000
Duration                        : 0:03:28
Preferred Rate                  : 1
Preferred Volume                : 100.00%
Preview Time                    : 0 s
Preview Duration                : 0 s
Poster Time                     : 0 s
Selection Time                  : 0 s
Selection Duration              : 0 s
Current Time                    : 0 s
Next Track ID                   : 4
Track Header Version            : 0
Track Create Date               : 2015:05:17 17:09:33
Track Modify Date               : 2015:05:17 17:09:33
Track ID                        : 1
Track Duration                  : 0:03:28
Track Layer                     : 0
Track Volume                    : 0.00%
Image Width                     : 1920
Image Height                    : 1080
Chapter List Track ID           : 0
Graphics Mode                   : srcCopy
Op Color                        : 0 0 0
Compressor ID                   : avc1
Source Image Width              : 1920
Source Image Height             : 1080
X Resolution                    : 72
Y Resolution                    : 72
Bit Depth                       : 24
Video Frame Rate                : 23.976
Time Code                       : 3
Balance                         : 0
Audio Format                    : sowt
Audio Channels                  : 2
Audio Bits Per Sample           : 16
Audio Sample Rate               : 48000
Matrix Structure                : 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Media Header Version            : 0
Media Create Date               : 2015:05:17 17:09:33
Media Modify Date               : 2015:05:17 17:09:33
Media Time Scale                : 360000
Media Duration                  : 0:03:28
Media Language Code             : jpn
Gen Media Version               : 0
Gen Flags                       : 0 0 0
Gen Graphics Mode               : srcCopy
Gen Op Color                    : 0 0 0
Gen Balance                     : 0
Text Font                       : System
Text Face                       : Plain
Text Size                       : 12
Text Color                      : 0 0 0
Background Color                : 0 0 0
Font Name                       : 
Handler Class                   : Data Handler
Handler Type                    : Alias Data
Other Format                    : tmcd
Make                            : OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Camera Model Name               : E-M5MarkII
Date Time 1                     : Sun May 17 17:09:33 2015
Date Time 2                     : Sun May 17 17:09:33 2015
Thumbnail Width                 : 160
Thumbnail Height                : 120
Thumbnail Length                : 13394
Thumbnail Image                 : (Binary data 13394 bytes, use -b option to extract)
Preview Image Length            : 69878
Preview Image                   : (Binary data 69878 bytes, use -b option to extract)
Movie Data Size                 : 1343749881
Movie Data Offset               : 360448
Avg Bitrate                     : 51.5 Mbps
Image Size                      : 1920x1080
Megapixels                      : 2.1
Rotation                        : 0

This is a .mov file, but .mts don't work better.

temperdu

July 07, 2015 06:45

I contacted Phase One support and they answered very quickly :

HI

The support of video is very basic and it does not run through our imagecore.
Instead we use Quicktime/Media Player in order to see and detct videos.
So in this case there is no solution for the lack of getting time stamps, at least for now etc.

Kind regards
Phase One support

So, I think that there is no way to import video files and sort them by date on the hard drive.

I really wish I could switch to Capture One but unfortunately, it won't be possible and I'm stucked with LR and its now aging raw engine (C1P is really in a different league). It's really a pitty because retreiving EXIF data is not a tricky thing and event the Windows Explorer displays the capture date properly.

Hanz

August 30, 2020 15:18

Hi temperdu,

unfortunately, correct time sorting of video files is still not implemented. Very annoying, considering the little effort from a developer perspective.

Cheers,

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