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April 15, 2017

P: Video capture time shifted by time zone offset

  • April 15, 2017
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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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    erol diener
    Participating Frequently
    September 30, 2020

    Hello everyone. I just noticed that all my imported .mov movies from my new Z50, have a wrong capture time. The capture time of all my videos is exactly 1h behind. E.g. 01:23:14 PM instead 02:23:14 PM. The time zone and time settings in my Z50 are ok. Date, time and time zone are correct. Summer time is on.

    If I check the time directly on the back of my Z50 or on the SD card with ViewNX from Nikon, the capture time is correct.

    It seems that Lightroom has an issue with the capture time of videos from the Nikon Z50.

    Can anyone reproduce this with his/her Z50?

    Thanks a lot 🙂
    It's quite annoying

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    June 28, 2020
    See this post for the mess with industry standards that's the underlying cause:
    https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/canon-5d-mark-iv-video-capture-time-incorrect...

    Adobe recognizes the iPhone in particular and handles it specially. It could do the same for other camera models, but it requires LR to read camera-specific metadata, and Adobe appears to have a very conservative legal approach to manufacturer-specific metadata, requiring legal agreements before incorporating such metadata in Adobe products. 
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 28, 2020


    In the newest version 9.3 is still the bug that Videos have the wrong time in the catalog ?? When will Adobe fix this problem ?? Realy nerving - and cannot be a big bug - right ?
    Dave Rye
    Dave Rye
    Known Participant
    June 20, 2020
    My Sony A7RMIII doesn't seem to know how to write some things so that Adobe likes them.  Despite it syncing my time on still photos just fine with my GPS logs and such.  Just the video always must be shifted back four hours after I finally wait through the God cursed import delay so it sits next to the plain 42MP shots.  🙂
    Dave Rye
    Dave Rye
    Known Participant
    February 14, 2020
    Same problem here.  Have to manually group files with a filter, then apply -5 hour date/time fix, then write it back.  Do yourself a favor and do such before trying to mix still photos, or frame captures from the same shoot.  It's enough to cause tooth enamel wear.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 16, 2019
    I'm having this exact issue with a Canon G7x iii that I never had before with Canon 6D or any other cameras. What I gather from this is that there still is no fix.
    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    May 23, 2019
    You're getting the wrong dates on the Canon videos because of the QuickTime standards mess, and because Adobe and Canon haven't agreed that it's OK for Adobe to read the metadata field in Canon videos containing the time zone. (Adobe considers that field "proprietary", though there's plenty of third-party software that will read it.)

    You're getting the wrong dates on the iPhone videos because you're importing over a USB cable, yet another date/time bug:
    https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom_import_wrong_folder_names_organizing_by_date_around_midnight_when_using_camera_usb

    If you sync the iPhone videos using Dropbox or Apple Cloud thingies or some other mechanism that doesn't involve USB cables, you should get correct dates.  Adobe worked around the QuickTime standards mess for iOS videos only, working out an agreement with Apple to read their "proprietary" time zone fields:
    https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/iphone_video_capture_time_is_shifted_upon_import_to_lightroom
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    LauraL982001
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    May 23, 2019
    I use a memory card reader for my canon 5D Mark IV and an apple USB cord for my iPhone X.

    I am tired of the workarounds. When I was airdropping them to my computer and then importing them into LR I don’t think I had the time issue. But I had a hard time figuring out which files had already been uploaded and I ended up with lots of duplicates that LR didn’t catch.

    I’ve tried using Dropbox to auto upload and set LR to watch that folder and rename on import. I believe the filenames were correct, but videos took forever to upload on my wireless and it wouldn’t let me use cellular (even though I have unlimited data). Anyway, I just want to plug in my phone, back it up and import to Lightroom with correct dates and times like it’s designed to do.

    I just don’t understand why I can “edit” the capture time (but don’t actually edit anything) and magically the time gets corrected... Why can’t they just do that behind the scenes for all videos so I don’t have to?

    And why does finder know the correct time and LR can’t figure it out?

    And why is the Date/Time field actually the imported date/time? And why does that incorrect field populate the renaming date/time field?? I just wish I could code or fix things. It seems like it should be so easy for the people who know how...
    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    May 23, 2019
    Laura, there are two issues that trip up LR with video capture time:

    1. The QuickTime spec was badly written and doesn't provide a standard way for cameras to record time zone (see the top of this topic).

    2. Importing via a USB cable has bugs with time zones.

    Are you importing via USB cable or memory card?
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    LauraL982001
    Participating Frequently
    May 23, 2019



    Why isn't this fixed???  I thought I'd try importing again through Lightroom because I love that it doesn't import duplicates, but it's useless and creates such a mess of my files. 

    2 issues exist due to the inconsistent capture date/time on all my .MOV files. : 
    * Renaming video files on import using date & time in filenames
    ** Renaming video files using date OR date & time in filenames

    Info: I'm using LR Classic CC (v. 8.3) and I have tested Canon 5D Mark II and IV, iphone 6s Plus and iphone X.  

    *Renaming video files on import using DATE+TIME
    Replicate Scenario: 
    1. Import a video and rename upon import as: 
    Date (YYYY)-Date (MM)-Date (DD)_Hour.Minute.Second.MOV

    Results: 
    1. Library shows inconsistent Date Digitized and Date Captured.
            *Date Digitized= correct capture date and time; and agrees with import screen's.
            *Capture time= import time for all video files.
    2. Filename time is wrong for all video files.  
    3. Filename date is wrong for all video files taken after 5:59 pm or 6:59 CST.
    4. Files are sorted correctly 

    Conclusion: **SOMEWHERE in LR there is another time that isn't shown and is off by 5-6 hours (at least in Central time zone), resulting in the file naming/re-naming problem. This is the time that is used for naming files.


    ** RENAMING existing video files with DATE+TIME:
    Replicate Scenario:
    1. Use any existing video file that has inconsistent date/time digitized and date/time values (such as the files imported above):

    2. Rename them:
    Date (YYYY)-Date (MM)-Date (DD)_Hour.Minute.Second...

    3. They are renamed using the date/time value, which is the IMPORT date/time. Absolutely useless.

    Conclusion: No idea.

    I know the workaround. The workaround gets OLD. And there shouldn't BE one.  

    Is there a way to change the date??  My luck I could have fixed my own issue.  I don't see anywhere to change the time zone...  But it's always consistently 5-6 hours off, which is just weird.



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