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skD1am0nd
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June 10, 2022
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Edit Capture Time Multiple Images Not Working

  • June 10, 2022
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For the last few days, I tried to capture about 80 images for a stop-motion/GIF of me assembling a bicycle. My camera had unreliable power and the capture date is all wrong (some for today, some in 2014, etc). No problem I thought I'll import into lightroom, sort by filename (which is the right order) and then set them all to the same capture time. I'm in grid view, select the first picture then CMD-A to select all of them. Then I go to MetaData-> Edit Capture time, click the radio buttton for "Adjust to a specfied time and date", set the data and time to June 2, 2022 at 8PM, fianlly I click the "Change All" button.

 

Well the reults are confusing. The first picture has the right time and date, the date for the second is right but the time is 7:00:31 PM, for the third it is 7:01:11 PM ... this continues on until photo #15 at tthat point the date is 2013 (which is probably was when my camera reset power). So it seems it is only changing capture time for the first 15 of my 80 photos and on those it is incrementing by 30-60 seconds for each picture. 

 

I do find that I can scroll down, choose one picture, and successfully change the date for tha picture. Any ideas what is going on?

 

P.S. My setup if it matters: 

Lightroom Classic version: 11.3.1 [ 202204181225-f90ebff5 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en-US
Operating system: Mac OS 12
Version: 12.4.0 [21F79]
Application architecture: arm64
Logical processor count: 10
Processor speed: NA
SqLite Version: 3.36.0
Built-in memory: 65,536.0 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 65,536.0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 10,546.0 MB (16.0%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 421,463.2 MB
Memory cache size: 7,667.4MB
Internal Camera Raw version: 14.3 [ 1072 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 864MB / 32767MB (2%)
Camera Raw real memory: 863MB / 65536MB (1%)
Displays: 1) 5120x2880, 2) 3024x1964

Graphics Processor Info:
Metal: Apple M1 Max

 

Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Lightroom Classic
Library Path: /Users/scottdiamond/Diamond_Image_DB/DIAMOND_LR_CATALOG/DIAMOND_LR_CATALOG-2-v10-v11.lrcat
Settings Folder: /Users/scottdiamond/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom

Installed Plugins:
1) AdobeStock
2) Aperture/iPhoto Importer Plug-in
3) Facebook
4) Flickr
5) Nikon Tether Plugin

Config.lua flags: None

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    Dor228788082wv0
    New Participant
    January 17, 2024

    Hey dude, I had the same problem. Just wanted to say you can do that easily in Adobe Bridge.

     

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Brainiac
    June 10, 2022

    "I'll import into lightroom, sort by filename (which is the right order) and then set them all to the same capture time."

     

    When you invoke Edit Capture Time on multiple photos and click Change All, it doesn't set them all to the same time. Rather, it shifts the time of all the photos by the same amount.  Here's how the command itself describes it at the top of the window:

     

    "Modify the capture time stored in the selected photos by entering the correct time adjust for the photo displayed to the left. Other photos (but not videos) will be adjusted by the same amount of time."

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    richardplondon
    Community Expert
    June 10, 2022

    Yes, this feature isn't "change TO", it is "change BY".

     

    So a chosen date/time can instead be imposed directly in Library, Metadata panel, with identical new details filled in for, or else synced across, the whole set. This new situation would still not embody the right capture sequence (when sorting by date - you would have to continue sorting by filename, to see that).

     

    Accordingly IMO it is better to work selectively, and to use the 'shift date and time' feature just on those photos showing incorrect dates. The aim being to reinstate all the proper relative time offsets from shot to shot. If you have already date-and-time shifted the lot regardless, then it may be that you now need to address just those that have been inappropriately moved forwards in time. Their originally recorded date and time can still be viewed in the Metadata panel, alongside the standard Date and Time field - as subsequently altered.

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