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February 3, 2014

P: iPhone video Capture Time is shifted upon Import

  • February 3, 2014
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Beginning with at least the iPhone 4S, and continuing with the 5 and 5s, I see that videos shot with those devices show a capture time that seems to relate to GMT, when it was actually shot at GMT -5.

The videos show a correct creation time in Finder prior to import, but this odd shift occurs upon import. I know that the capture time can be edited in Lightroom, but I'd rather see the correct time on import.

This happens in Lightroom 5.3, but also occurred all the way back into 4.

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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
July 19, 2017
It can take a few hours for the updates to propagate through the server. Your CC app refreshes every 24 hours. If you can't/won't wait, you can get it from the link John provided. 
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
johnrellis
Legend
July 19, 2017
You can download updates directly from here: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/lightroom-downloads.html
Participating Frequently
July 19, 2017
Thanks, Rikk.  Hope it finally works. 

My desktop app is not showing the latest update, nor does this page.  Is there another way to get it, or should I just wait and be patient?
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
July 19, 2017
Lightroom CC2015.12/6.12 was released today and should address this issue.  Please update your Lightroom to the latest version and let us know if you continue to see the issue. Thank you for your patience.

http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2017/07/lightroom-cc-2015-12-now-available.html
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Smit K
Participating Frequently
June 12, 2017
Thanks, Andrew!

I am trying to reproduce the issue on our end.

Thanks,
Smit Keniya
Smit | Lightroom Team
Participating Frequently
June 11, 2017
I did my 3 month unloading photos/vidoes from various devices today and ran into this a bunch of times.  The problem is that the same video imported over and over again will sometimes come in in GMT time and sometimes the correct local time.  Unfortunately us sending videos in isn't going to help resolve this.  I took a video of my lightroom experience of a video from 2 this afternoon which showed 9 in lightroom after initial import. I removed that single video from the catalog and then resyncd the folder and on the second sync, it got the correct local time of 2pm.  I sent the details to your e-mail address Smit.
Smit K
Participating Frequently
June 8, 2017
Thanks, Mark! I will try to reproduce on our end.

Thanks,
Smit Keniya
Smit | Lightroom Team
Participating Frequently
June 8, 2017
Just FYI that my experience above is identical to marks.  The importing is hit or miss, sometimes it gets the timezone right, sometimes it's wrong, and If I reimport the same files, the ones it gets it right/wrong on changes.
MarkML
Participating Frequently
June 8, 2017
Hi Smit, 
They were all in 4K, and I think there was one or two slo-mo files - I'll double check and confirm.
What I'll try and do is repeatedly import the set, and generate a report each time which I can share with you, and I'll include as many data points in the report as possible.

Thanks,
Mark.
Smit K
Participating Frequently
June 7, 2017
Hi Mark,

Could you share the details of the videos?
  • Shot in - 720P, 1080P or 4K?
  • Were any of them slow-mo or time-lapse?
This will help in creating a set on our end which is like your set

Thanks,
Smit Keniya
Smit | Lightroom Team