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Mathias32515695vfub
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March 6, 2025

P: Do not delete the “Capture Date” when exporting videos

  • March 6, 2025
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When a video is exported from Lightroom Classic, the “Capture Date” (CreateDate or DateTimeDigitized) is overwritten with the time of the export. However, the “Capture Date” must not be changed during export. It works when exporting photos.

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johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
August 20, 2025

"Has the bug been fixed?"

 

Adobe is very good about updating acknowledged bug reports (which appear in the forum's Bugs section) when the status of a bug changes. There's been no update to this bug report, unfortunately.

matthiasm6614358
matthiasm6614358
Participant
August 20, 2025

Has the bug been fixed?

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
March 7, 2025

We've reviewed this and opened a bug with the Classic Team. Please follow this thread for updates as they are available. 

Thank you for your report.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 6, 2025

    The problem with video is that there are no proper standards, like EXIF for photos. Premiere Pro does the same thing. Importing videos also gives the wrong capture date/time for many cameras.

     

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
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    Mathias32515695vfubAuthor
    Participant
    March 6, 2025

    The problem is not that Lightroom Classic displays the wrong “Capture Date” after the import. After the import, the “Capture Date” is displayed correctly. The problem is that when exporting, the correct “Capture Date” is simply overwritten by the time of the export. Lightroom Classic overwrites the correct “Capture Date” in all important places in the metadata: Quicktime:CreateDate and XMP-xmp:CreateDate (if available; see ExifTool). After the export, there is no longer the correct recording date anywhere in the metadata.

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    March 7, 2025

    There are indeed standards governing basic metadata in video: Quicktime, MP4, and XMP (which Adobe defined). 

     

    But Adobe never finished LR's implementation of video back in LR 4, and LR makes no attempt to write any metadata from the catalog  into exported videos.

     

    I very much doubt that Adobe will ever put more effort into LR Classic video. While waiting from them to do that before the next ice age, you could use the Run Any Command plugin and the free Exiftool utility to create a post-process action for video export that writes capture date and any other desired metadata into the video.

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