Renaming a file giving date and time using Lightroom Classic does not work

[fdormoy]

When I rename video files or photo files in Lightroom to replace camera generated name with a name associating year month day, hour, min, sec, the date data is correct but the hour data is incorrect.  It should be the same as the time on the comupter, but it has 4 5 hours difference. 

In the meta data of the video clip made with a DJI Action 4 camera, the date and time match with that of the computer.  So the problem is not coming from the camera settings.

How could I solve that issue to make sure that I have same time in file name as in computer?

[GoldingD]

Time image was taken, vs time image was imported into LrC, vs time image was edited/modified. What time are you referring to?

[fdormoy]

Time created

[JohanElzenga]

This is a known problem with the capture time of videos, caused by poor standards. That is a long story I will not repeat (you can find several threads on this in the forum). Your videos will show the wrong capture time in Lightroom if they were shot in a time zone that is not GMT. And so renaming them based on capture time will also go wrong. What I do is this:

1: I import videos without renaming them.

2: I select the videos, choose 'Metadata - Edit Capture Time' and change the capture date/time to the file creation date.

3: Now the videos will have the correct capture time in the local time zone, so I can rename them correctly.

[fdormoy]

Wow! What a job.  Doing that for 20-30 clips could be very time consuming.  Why Lightroom cant take the computer date/time simply, since it is at the desired tme zone ?

[JohanElzenga]

Why is that time consuming? Select all videos and use that menu to change their capture time in batch, then rename them in batch. That doesn't cost more time than doing this on a single video. The video capture date is a problem that is caused by poor video metadata standards, making it not so simple (though definitely not impossible) to fix, because it means Lightroom would have to use different methods to establish the capture date for different camera brands. Not all videos from all cameras have this problem. It depends on how the camera manufacturer uses the standard. If you're interested, read this: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-handle-video-capture-times-for-cameras-obey...

Of course Adobe should fix this eventually, that is not the point. The point is that this is a fairly easy work around that takes only a little time. And something that you can use today.