Photos and Videos Downloading to Different Dates

Question

Hello,

I take photographs with a Sony A9ii mirrorless camera. I download and organize my photos with Lightroom Classic (13.2 release, Camera RAW 16.2) on a Mac computer.

If I take photographs and videos (using the same camera and on the same SD card) at an event on June 1 and download them via LRC, my photographs will be correctly placed in a folder marked 2024-06-01. HOWEVER, the videos will be incorrectly placed in a folder marked 2024-06-02. A day LATER. I have checked the metadata. Both the photographs and vidoes says June 1 but LRC insists on placing all the videos in a folder with a date a day later.

Can anyone please tell me why it's doing this?

Thank you in advance.

Cheers.

David.

johnrellis · Answer

This is caused by Apple's poorly written Quicktime specification, causing LR to get the time zone wrong for capture dates of video from many cameras:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-handle-video-capture-times-for-cameras-obeying-the-quicktime-mp4-standard/idi-p/14007948

There's not much you can do, other than to manually move the videos to the correct folder after import.

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