Rating videos on camera (Canon R): stars don't survive import to LR Classic

Question

I shoot sports... and it's super useful to rate in camera (very small % of shots are keepers), delete all the non-rated items.. and get a leg-up on editing by differntiating the 4-star images/video from the 2-stars. I do this using the prominent "rating" button on the Canon R-series cameras.

Photos work perfectly ... but when video comes into Lightroom the stars aren't preserved. I realize this MAY be a gap with MP4 file format (which would be a huge bummer) .. but I would think/hope that LR could get the data from the camera and preserve it in the library, even if not in the video file. (I'd change file names using LR rename to show the star rating).

Can anuthing be done?

Exuberant_strategist9315 · Answer

I have also come across this issue, Using Canon's Digital Photo Professional 4, which gives the vibes of Lightroom with less features, however it does display photo and video Star Ratings, so this can be a step inserted into your workflow where you can use it grab star rated files and dump them into separate folder marked "rated" and pick it up in lightroom from there?  Just and idea, less than ideal but may be something i start doing also.

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