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April 15, 2017

P: Video capture time shifted by time zone offset

  • April 15, 2017
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I recently got a 5D IV and just noticed that capture times on video files shows 5 hours ahead in Lightroom (photos are fine). This causes videos taken late in the day to be imported into the folder for the next day. I'm running the latest Lightroom (6.10) and 5D Firmware (1.04). I checked my old 5D Mark III videos and they are fine. 

I suspect Lightroom ins't picking up the timezone info and is using UTC time.  Is this a bug?

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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
August 15, 2023

For those of you still experiencing this issue, please consider moving your additional discussion and votes to the new feature request thread. 

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


Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
johnrellis
Legend
August 5, 2023

@lazydiver, "An also my drone DJI Mini 3 Pro."

 

Can you please upload a short, unedited sample video to Dropbox, Google Drive, or similar, and post the sharing link here? That will let me verify the DJI problem is as expected.

johnrellis
Legend
August 5, 2023

@lazydiver, "You can add Nikon Z 9"

 

I'd like to understand precisely what's happening with the Z cameras.  In the Z 9's Menu > Time Zone And Date, are you changing the time zone?

Participating Frequently
August 5, 2023

So yes, please, start a new bug report. 

Cheers! / Ingvar
Participating Frequently
August 5, 2023

An also my drone DJI Mini 3 Pro.

Cheers! / Ingvar
Participating Frequently
August 5, 2023

Hi and thanks! You can add Nikon Z 9 (and thus probably also all other cameras in the Nikon Z series) to the cameras that stores time in a way that creates a time shift in Adobe Lightroom.

Cheers! / Ingvar
johnrellis
Legend
August 5, 2023

@Rikk Flohr: Photography, I just noticed this bug is marked as Fixed, even though the bug still occurs for any non-IOS camera that obeys the Quicktime standard and writes the time in UTC to the field Quicktime:CreateDate.  This will typically include Android phones, drones, and other devices that get their time from the Internet or GPS. It also includes the Nikon Z6 II, which records "local time" in the video's MakerNotes and UTC in Quicktime:CreateDate (I don't know where the camera gets "local time").

 

Should we start a new Bug?

Known Participant
November 18, 2022

Does anyone else have this issue or does anyone know what this might be about?

I´ve been using Nikon Z6II for about half a year now. It seems that when importing videos (shot with Z6II) to Lightroom Classic (Mac OS), the time of the videos (when was it shot) get somehow mixed. Everything is in order in the camera, but in Lightroom catalogue it shows as if the video was shot a exactly three hours earlier it actually was. For example I shoot photos and videos at 8 pm, and import them to LR Classic, all the photos´ info show just as they should the correct date and time, but the videos´ info show that they where shot on that day but at 5 pm.

 

I´ve been trying to go through the menus and preferences and trying to figure out what could cause this, but no avail. My Nikon D850 doesn´t do that, and I believe the problem can´t be in the Z6II either, as the time of the videos in the camera appear ok.

 

Why is this?

 

johnrellis
Legend
January 5, 2023

This problem is caused by a poorly written Quicktime / MP4 industry standard for how to record capture dates that many (but not all) cameras fail to obey.  LR could work around this by having a list of those cameras that don't obey the standard (just as LR knows how to interpret proprietary raw files), but Adobe has chosen not to do this.

 

The workaround is to select all newly imported videos, do Metadata > Edit Capture Time, and select Shift By Set Number Of Hours. 

johnrellis
Legend
January 5, 2023
Participant
March 30, 2022
I have just switched to importing all the videos into photos app on my Mac. It somehow manages to keep the correct time.
Known Participant
March 30, 2022

I am also experiencing the same time zone offset problem when importing photos from a Sony RX100VII camera.  I am using Lightroom 11.2 on a MacBook Pro M1 Max with MacOS Monterey 12.3.