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stnz
stnz
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December 1, 2016
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Edit Capture Time not working for multiple photos

  • December 1, 2016
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Hello,

I seem to have a strange problem with the Edit Capture Time function. According to earlier forum posts and other sources it SHOULD work for changing time of multiple photos, but I cannot get that to work. The timezone shift only changes the capture time of the first picture selected (and shown), not other selected pictures. Lightroom is the newest version, and actually I have had the same behaviour for a year or so, all the time with current newest version of Lightroom CC. I think it used to work just fine earlier, but that was at least a year ago.

Would be nice to get that to work, clicking every photo separately isn't really handy. Stupid mobile phones save their photos with local time as capture time and not UTC.. So to use the photos in the same galleries with photos taken with other cameras while traveling through multiple timezones requires changing capture time manually.

Any ideas? Should it work? Does anyone have it working at the moment with the newest version? Not sure if it works when setting static new capture time, but at least the timezone shift does not.

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      Correct answer stnz

      Ok, found my mistake. It only works when you are in grid view. If you are in loupe view, it doesn't work even if you select multiple photos from the film strip, which is what I was trying to do.

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      johnrellis
      johnrellis
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      December 1, 2016

      I just retested Edit Capture Time with Shift By Set Number Of Hours after selecting multiple photos, and it successfully changed the photos capture time by the given number of hours. 

      Please report the exact version of LR and Windows / Mac by doing Help > System Info.  (LR often fools people into mistakenly thinking they're on the "latest" version.)

      LR CC 2015.7 introduce a bug where photos don't automatically re-sort properly after doing Edit Capture Time. You need to click the Sort Direction button twice:

      If that doesn't help, then the most efficient way to troubleshoot is to see exactly what's on your screen: Post a series of full-resolution screen shots of the entire LR window for each step, showing grid view before Edit Capture Time, the Edit Capture Time window, and grid view after Edit Capture Time.  Make sure the capture times are showing under the thumbnails (do View > View Options).

      stnz
      stnzAuthor
      Participant
      December 4, 2016

      Version details:

      Lightroom version: CC 2015.7 [ 1090788 ]

      License: Creative Cloud

      Operating system: Mac OS 10

      Version: 10.12 [0]

      Application architecture: x64

      And hmhm.. Now I actually cannot reproduce it myself, after having the problem in real use for long time.

      I will update the screenshots when I can actually reproduce the problem.

      fuldanips
      fuldanips
      Participating Frequently
      October 28, 2018

      Many, many people have found this confusing over the years (including me), but at this point I think it's unlikely going to change.

      There are a variety of things you can do to make changes to multiple photos in the film strip. Exporting, Syncing metadata, syncing edits, adding/removing flags, adding/removing ratings, and also making edits with multiple images selected in film strip will apply the edits to all of them.

      This isn't quite right. When multiple photos are selected, the behavior of commands that change photos depends on whether you're in Loupe view (single image showing) or grid view (multiple thumbnails showing). The filmstrip can be visible in either mode.

      In grid view, commands apply to all the selected photos.

      But in Loupe view (in either Library or Develop), commands that change photos only apply to the "most selected" photo (the photo showing): change ratings, change flags, Quick Develop, Paste Settings, Edit Capture Time, changing fields via the Metadata panel.  The exceptions to this are: Sync, Sync Settings, and Auto Sync.

      Definitely confusing.


      johnrellis  wrote

      Many, many people have found this confusing over the years (including me), but at this point I think it's unlikely going to change.

      There are a variety of things you can do to make changes to multiple photos in the film strip. Exporting, Syncing metadata, syncing edits, adding/removing flags, adding/removing ratings, and also making edits with multiple images selected in film strip will apply the edits to all of them.

      This isn't quite right. When multiple photos are selected, the behavior of commands that change photos depends on whether you're in Loupe view (single image showing) or grid view (multiple thumbnails showing). The filmstrip can be visible in either mode.

      In grid view, commands apply to all the selected photos.

      But in Loupe view (in either Library or Develop), commands that change photos only apply to the "most selected" photo (the photo showing): change ratings, change flags, Quick Develop, Paste Settings, Edit Capture Time, changing fields via the Metadata panel.  The exceptions to this are: Sync, Sync Settings, and Auto Sync.

      Definitely confusing.

      I cannot speak for later versions of Lightroom because I'm currently running Lightroom CC 2015.14, but everything I said is correct.

      All of the above changes I listed apply in Loupe (single image) view in Lightroom 2015.14. It has been like that for as long as I can remember and I have been using Lightroom for 10 years.

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