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January 18, 2012
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P: Read and write video metadata into video or sidecar

  • January 18, 2012
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The new Video part is great! I really like the previews.It is a great addition to sort and tag your video's. Only one problem:The tagging system doesn't work properly, it doesn't store the tags in the video-files like it is possible with the photo's. I hope this will be working in the Final.

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Inspiring
December 4, 2015


Is there a plugin or fix so that Lightroom 4.2 will read/write metadata to video? I purchased Lightroom as the next evolution from using Google Picasa. But I'm finding my albums showing up in weird order, with videos sometimes pulling in correct date and other names wrong date and ending up at end of sequence (and thus out-of-order).

Not cool for organizing personal collections of photos/video.

Having just spent a fair amount of money for Lightroom, I'm not inclined to go back (plus I like the RAW support). But this seems like an easy fix and that should be fixed? But it seems like this problem has existed since LR3?

Sort of confusing to me for such a high-end program.
Inspiring
December 4, 2015


The Sony RX series (or at least my RX100 m3) stores its movie files in a separate folder from the pictures. Every time I import photos I have to make sure I've gone into that folder and manually dragged and dropped in the videos as well. The videos also come with some separate files that contain all the metadata for the videos. It'd be great if those could be auto-imported as well and used to fill in metadata for the movies.
Inspiring
December 4, 2015


Basic information like lens & camera are missing in Lightroom for video files. Specifically the D800 and S100 camera. The information is available in the files and can be seen using exiftool. It would be great to have this information available in Lightroom to search.

Further, the Video Frame Rate & Video Dimensions is picked up for the D800 but not the S100. It would also be great to be able to search of these two fields as well (in the Library Filter).
Participating Frequently
December 4, 2015


Why doesn't Lightroom write metadata to video files or xmp side car files associated with video files? I'd like to write common IPTC metadata to my still and video images from my DSLR at the same time. It appears any metadata associated with a video file (.mov from and Nikon D4 in my case) is only available in the Lightroom Catalog. I need it to be available in other applications as I share the file. I've done some testing and Photo Mechanic creates an XMP file which is read by other applications.
Participant
October 29, 2015
LR6 - I import a video, include it in a Slideshow. If the date is shown, it is the date imported, not the date the video was shot. Using exiftool, I set every date in the metadata to the date it was shot (including the file creation date), reimported it - same result. LR6 just can't get it right. How many releases does it take to get this right?
Inspiring
August 18, 2015
Seriously.... This ****** sucks, Picasa3 wich is free doesn't have this kind of junk problems.... Hate this sucker software.....
Inspiring
June 17, 2015
I'm using Lightroom 4 and would really appreciate if Adobe allowed metadata to be written to the video files. The preset should work for BOTH photo and video. Please HELP!
Known Participant
May 6, 2015
It is too bad that Adobe seems to be unable to marshal any resources to address this issue or any other metadata enhancements.
Known Participant
May 6, 2015
Adobe has acknowledged they never finished their support of video metadata in LR.
Inspiring
May 6, 2015
Question maybe its been covered. when importing stills and video from my Canon power shot G15. the stills will have for example exif date and time 09:00am (time taken) but if I have a video shortly after say taken at 9:05am the create date may show 09:05 but exif has a 4 hr difference of 13:05. I looked at video file in Canon software and don't see a issue. just when looking at LR catalog listing I have to alter time for the .MOV files. I tried test with my 60D and 70D and it appears to be ok. anyone else have this problem? Is it LR6CC or me?