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Media Encoder: How do I keep the original date & time when exporting from MPG to say... HEVC ???

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April 22, 2020
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I have a bunch of old .MPG video files from 2007 and want to convert to H.264 or H.265 but everytime I do it keeps the convert date instead... Its driving me insane & I can not find the answer. I've gone to the Metadata on the export settings area and under basic it has todays date and no way to change it. Also under the Export Options it only lists 'Create Sidecar File' and 'None' availabel to select. I simply want to keep the original date and time of the 2007 videos (without having to change my computer date and time for each video. I have thousands so thats not goign to work!) Why is this so difficult. I should be able to just add the date I want and export. WHat am I missing....

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JudithCS

New Participant

Adobe Media Encoder needs a "keep original file metadata/paste original metadata into the re-coded file" feature!

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eckiAMETeam

Adobe Employee

The bug is still open, but does not have the highest priority. I will keep you posted.

EckiAME

Community Manager

I was able to repro with mp3 but not with HEVC. "2011" is not a full date. That might also cause some issues. Anyways, filing a bug for further investigatioins by our engineers.

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Pidwake

Participating Frequently

Thanks for letting me know about that. A bug fix for this or an update would be very appreciated because it would help my organizing greatly. I don't always need the full date just the year, Or however it was saved originally as i input it into the adobe programs.

Thanks again, Please keep us posted.

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Asag NIdhogg

Participating Frequently

stupid Adobe!
as always make mud for people!
ADOBE MAKE BUTTON TO PRESERVE DATA AND TIME!
SO EASY THING FOR YOU WITH YOUR BILLIONS!

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eckiAMETeam

Adobe Employee

Please be more specific. This is avery large thread with a lot of different topics, including file creation dates as file attributes (which are not metadata). This is nothing that we can change as it is part of the operating system.

So what exactly is not working for you? Are any metadata fields not preserved in your encodes? Which formats are you talking about?

The above text does not help us to help you.

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Pidwake

Participating Frequently

Hi I'm having a somewhat similar issue. So what happens is that i'm looking to get the "Year" field information the same but it always exports them to have the current year in the "Year' field (So 2023 is showing up on every file).

All the other field information is the same as it was before but year seems to be the only part i can't figure out. I've tried using the export settings perservation rules but it still isnt work.

Is there any way to do this? Can you help please? Or Maybe create an update for this issue?

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Simon228830971adc

New Participant

In case others also look for an automated solution: I found one, using exiftool. source: superuser.com/questions/1664625/how-to-batch-copy-date-modified-from-files-in-directory-to-other-files-with-id

steps:

Using the command line program, exiftool , you would use this command
exiftool -TagsFromFile /path/to/sourceFiles/%F -All:All -FileModifyDate -FileCreateDate /Path/to/NewFiles/

philipp26410331

New Participant

Hello,

I had the same problem while trying to convert a few thousand home videos to a smaller format. After 4 miserable hours, I put together a powershell script that looks at each file in the new directory, and writes the modified time stamp from the folder to it as the modified and created time.

If your encoded and original filenames are the same (except for the extension), then hopefully this would help. I'd be happy to upload the text from the script that I made as long as it doesn't violate the community guidelines. Attached are a few pictures showing how it works. Please let me know if you have any suggestions on how to improve the script!

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sjlocke

Known Participant

What I ended up doing is I use the program BulkFileChanger to copy date/time from MediaFiles->ItemDate to created. Then I use BulkRenameUtility and rename all my files to include that creation date/time in the name. So they end up being: vid_11012019_1101_iphoneX_0001 . That way, at least I still have the info somewhere useful.

philipp26410331

New Participant

Thanks, that's a much easier solution! I was trying to use the Attribute Changer program that Jeff mentioned, but couldn't get it to look for the date in another folder so I didn't try further.

It looks like I could have used BulkFileChanger to rename the files, then Attribute Changer to modify the created date based off of the name on all the videos in the folder, then BulkFileChanger again to remove the added date from the name.

If it's in the right format, you might be able to get the modified date changed using Attribute Changer. I think it also had a batch feature, so it should do them all at once

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sjlocke

Known Participant

I'm going to bump this because I have the exact same issue. Because ADOBE PRODUCTS DON'T LIKE APPLE MOVIE FILES, I want to convert them to .mp4, but then I lose the creation date! Come on guys, this shouldn't be this freaking difficult.

I am waiting TEN MINUTES for Bridge to select a few hundred MOV movie files so I can rename them on creation date. It's horrendous.

Jeff Bugbee

Community Expert

Created and Modified dates are not metadata, they are file attributes. To change those, you'll need to use a program like this:

Attribute Changer

https://www.petges.lu/download/

ryan_marshallAuthor

Inspiring

While that could be an option it's still doesn't answer the question. There MUST be somewhere to change this within Media Encoder to leave as the original. I have thousands of videos. I don't want to go through them 1 by 1 to change them back to the original date they were created. Who has time for that? Also, why download yet another program to do what Encoder should already do in the first place. It makes no sense. Can someone from Adobe Media Encoder answer this?

Jeff Bugbee

Community Expert

Your original question: "How do I keep the original date & time when exporting from MPG to say... HEVC ???"

The answer: You can't.

This is not an Adobe issue. File creation date and time is not determined by Adobe, it is determined by your Operating System. Again, this NOT metadata. Adobe deals in metadata. Creation date and time are file attributes. They are not "assigned," they simply "are." When you export a file from AME, you are creating a new file, hence the current date and time. You are complaining on the wrong forum, you should be on Microsoft or Apple's support forums.

The program I linked can do files in batches, you don't have to go through one by one.

DAYLIGHT

New Participant

I'm running through the same issues!
I aheva thousands of short videos in HEVC format prom Apple and I can't import them to Lightroom without converting them, but when I do that it changes the Creation Date to the date and time the file was converted.
I've spent quite some time trying to solve this.

ryan_marshallAuthor

Inspiring

Same here - it doesn't make sense at all! So frustrating - This should be super easy. Now I'm running into an issue where I can't convert old .wmv files. Says the file format is not supported. AUGH lol

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