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September 15, 2023
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Keeping photos and videos of same location together at import

  • September 15, 2023
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Hi all,

 

I'm doing shoots that require me to take photos and video at different locations thoughout the day. For example, I'll go to a park and take photos and video with both my camera and drone. Then I'll go to a shopping plaza and do a similar thing. So, at the end of the day, I'll have like photos and videos from my camera and drone from 13-20 different locations.

 

My issue:

When I import the media, my camera puts the photos at the top and the videos at the bottom. My drone seems to keep them all together based on capture time. In the library module, I have it sorting by capture time.

 

How do I make it so that all the files (photos and videos) are kept together based on when I shot them (at the same location)? Any tips on how I can import them so that my camera photos and videos aren't separated? It's such a pain to have to find them when I have some many files to work with.


Thanks!

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11 replies

dj_paige
Legend
September 15, 2023

You can change the sort order in LrC so that it is by capture time, in which case the photos taken at similar times will be together.

 

Note: there is a bug that capture time of videos from some cameras (or maybe all cameras?) don't show up in LrC with the correct capture time in LrC. What I do is simply subtract four hours from the capture time of the video in LrC, and now everything is in proper chronological order. (Your process may differ somewhat)

Participating Frequently
September 15, 2023

How do you subtract 4 hours from the video capture time in LrC?

Theresa J
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 16, 2023

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/metadata-basics-actions.html

Scroll down this page and you will find information about editing the capture time.