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Inspiring
Apr 15, 2017 3:44 AM UTC
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P: Video capture time shifted by time zone offset

I recently got a 5D IV and just noticed that capture times on video files shows 5 hours ahead in Lightroom (photos are fine). This causes videos taken late in the day to be imported into the folder for the next day. I'm running the latest Lightroom (6.10) and 5D Firmware (1.04). I checked my old 5D Mark III videos and they are fine. 

I suspect Lightroom ins't picking up the timezone info and is using UTC time.  Is this a bug?

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Known Participant
Mar 30, 2022 2:48 PM UTC

I am also experiencing the same time zone offset problem when importing photos from a Sony RX100VII camera.  I am using Lightroom 11.2 on a MacBook Pro M1 Max with MacOS Monterey 12.3.

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Participant
Dec 25, 2021 11:50 PM UTC

I am still experiencing the same bug in Lightroom Classic v11.1 today with .MP4 video files shot yesterday on my Nikon Z5

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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
Nov 23, 2021 7:58 PM UTC

updating status

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johnrellis
Legend
Apr 24, 2021 4:41 AM UTC

This is caused by a poorly written Quicktime specification, which requires that capture times be recorded in UTC but doesn't provide a standard location for recording time zone.  See here for details why LR interacts badly with this:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-video-capture-time-shifted-by-time-zone-offset/5f5f45b94b561a3d425bf7b3?commentId=5f5f48514b561a3d42184616 

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Inspiring
Apr 23, 2021 6:09 PM UTC

The time stamp on my .mov files from my Nikon Z6 ii are being rewritten upon import, I assume to match UTC 0. I have looked in forums and it seems the easiest thing to do is just change my camera's time zone to London. I don't really need help since I don't collaborate across time zones, but I hope this will be addressed in future updates. Metadata of video and photo files are accurate in the camera  and then upon upload, photos retain accurate metadata and videos are converted to London time (from LA time). This means they are not synched up and often in the following day's folder with the major time difference. It also means they are not synched with my other camera files which makes creating a chronological timeline difficult. In my mac's Finder, it seems they are timestamped with the correct metadata (date modified). It is only in Lightroom that this seems to be an issue. 

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johnrellis
Legend
Nov 3, 2020 4:13 PM UTC

Martin, see this reply above for what's going on: 

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-video-capture-time-shifted-by-time-zone-offset/5f5f45b94b561a3d425bf7b3?commentId=5f5f48514b561a3d42184616 

Re the in-camera star ratings, please post that as a separate thread.

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Inspiring
Nov 2, 2020 9:25 PM UTC
  • When importing photos with LR-classic the capture time is correct, of course. Even the in camera rating of photos is imported into Lightroom Classic.
  • When importing videos with LR-classic the capture time is wrong (- 2 hours)! Furthermore the in camera rating of videos is not imported into Lightroom Classic.
    These simple metadata import problems are reproducible with MP4-videos shot with Nikon Z7. Maybe this is related to specific camera models.

Lightroom Classic Version 10.0

Nikon Z7 Firmware Version 3.12

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Inspiring
Oct 26, 2020 9:37 PM UTC

This is incredible: this is a 5 year old bug!! And Adobe does not care!

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