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Modifying capture time

Thomas Geist
I am editing a job in Capture One 6.x (Mac) and need to change capture times for one of the cameras. Photo Mechanic to the rescue I thought. Well - NOT.

Even though I had checked all three options in PM (Update file creation date/time, Update file modification date/time, Update file IPTC/XMP date time) there seems to be another time stamp somewhere in the file that doesn't get changed by PM and it's exactly this time stamp that Capture One seems to use to sort. Ugh!

Is Media One the only way to change capture time in a way that Capture One will recognize it?

Help please!
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  • Nicolas
    You need an exif editor.
    Just Google: exif editor mac os x
    Good luck!
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    And after you edited the exif you probably need to use the 'reload metadata' command in CO6 to make the changes effective in CO6 of already opened images.
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  • Thomas Geist
    So how many time stamps are in a RAW file? Three I modified with Photo Mechanic and then at least another one? That's pretty confusing!
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  • Drew Altdo
    Ty
    [quote="NN115738UL" wrote:
    So how many time stamps are in a RAW file? Three I modified with Photo Mechanic and then at least another one? That's pretty confusing!


    It depends on the RAW file and Camera. Even still there are softwares that will add time tags to the RAW file in different places. Yes, it is confusing and unfortunately there is no single answer.
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  • Thomas Geist
    One last question because Kirk Baker, author of Photo Mechanic wanted to know: which time stamp exactly is C1 using to sort?

    Thank you!
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  • Drew Altdo
    Again, this depends.
    Please create a support case and provide a file, I'll look into it and get you a definitive answer.
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  • Thomas Geist
    Photo Mechanic v4.6.9 solves this!

    From the release notes: "The Exif Digitized Date/Time tag is now updated when using the Adjust Capture Times command."

    Tried it and it works. C1 now shows the altered timestamp.
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