P: Read and write video metadata into video or sidecar

I have not idea why Adobe doesn't read video metadata!

LR 4.2 does not read GPS data from my iPhone 4 videos, reads wrong capture data (shifted by 2h). Both problems do not occur with simple iPhone JPEGs.

Other external software does read this video metadata information correctly.

In your case, LR isn't reading the capture date from the metadata; rather, it is sorting your thumbnails by their files' file-modified date. LR displays the file-created date in grid view, but it uses the file-modifed date for sorting and filtering:

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

When you copy a file on Windows, the file-modified date (set by the camera) is preserved, while the file-created date is set to the date/time the file was copied.

Hi,

I have imported AVCHD videos from an SD card in Panasonic HD writer to a harddisk. Later on, I have imported these files in lightroom. Now, Lightroom 4.1 displays the capture date as the date on which the files were written to the harddisk. When I view the properties of the files in Sony Vegas 10, it correctly displays the capture date as the date on which the clips were made, so the capture date code is still correctly embedded. Lightroom 4.1 correctly orders the files chronologically, so it is able to read the date code correctly.

Importing videos from Samsung WB2000 into Lightroom 4.x does not have proper creation dates. This was not a problem with Lighroom 3.x

Im all for whatever gives this issue a higher profile. Its such a glaring gap that really hamstrings LR as a management tool for videos.

Things like the 'Date Created' vs 'Date Modified' problem, which is clearly NOT by design (its different then the way photos are treated for example), have been complained about since LR 3 beta two years ago, and nothing is ever done.

I still dont use LR to manage my videos, for just these reasons.

Yes, the metadata is there and yes, it is a bug (or a design limitation). But it's the same bug/limitation, or rather a subset of the one discussed in this topic — "Poor video metadata handling". (I guess we should update the topic title, maybe?)

There's no much use in same problem reports being scattered over multiple topics. I believe, a problem has a bigger chance to get attention when the "Me Too" counter has a higher value.

As moderator you're allowed to do that, but you're really mixing apple and oranges in the very same basket.
Beside that, exiftool reads that, Apple Finder reads that. The metadata is not encrypted.

Missing such information in Lightroom and displaying "unknown camera" for a known one is indeed a bug.
Let's hope that Adobe fixes it shortly. It shouldn't be that hard.

Same thing as in the other thread.

The fact that the metadata is in the file and ExifTool can see it, does not mean Lightroom would necessarily read it.

The title of this topic is a bit obsolete (thus it mislead you), but this thread has become the master thread for the issue of "poor video metadata handling" in general. And this is exactly the reason why Lightroom does not display your camera model name.

If there is no place to store it in the video file. It should go into the XMP file.