Can't get Immich to update video date
Hi. I used DigiKam to change the date of a video file. I've tried changing EXIF, XMP, IPTC and Last Modified but can't get Immich to show the updated date after extracting metadata and sidecar metadate for all files.
I'm currently testing on a new Immich instance with just the one video file.
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I've also turned off transcoding in case the transcoded video didn't have the updated metadata but that didn't fix it
changing the time date metadata of images works fine, it's only videos that aren't being updated in immich
the tag it looks for in video is
creation_timeany idea how i might change it in DigiKam? I cant seem to find it
I don't sorry :/
Hi for anyone searching this issue in the future, i managed to change that specific tag using exif tool: exiftool -api QuickTimeUTC "-CreateDate<Filename" VID-20170714-WA0019.mp4
the linuxserver.io digikam docker image has the exiftool cli already installed so i just used that. now i have to figure out how to bulk change multiple files...
In case it helps anyone else, exiftool can't update .mkv files. I ended up using mkvpropedit (part of mkvtoolnix):
mkvpropedit video.mkv --edit info --set "date=1974-05-22T01:00:00+05:00"
What this does, is set the date to May 22nd, 1974. The time will be 1AM, and the time zone will be UTC+5:00.