
QuickTime Player shows Title, Description and Author:
Clean exif efixtags from video pro#
Thanks, I used exiftool 12.16 and '-api QuickTimeHandler=1' fixed the issue with irreversibly vanishing 'QuickTime:HandlerType=Metadata'.īut for some strange reason 'ItemList:Author' acts weird also with exiftool 12.18:įinal Cut Pro 10.5.1. CreationDate : 2020:01:01 12:00:00+02:00īTW that 'QuickTime:HandlerType=Metadata Tags' vanishes if all Keys are removed and is re-created if some Keys is added. īelow are the initial tags for those Final Cut Pro 10.5.1. To add Keys and force any existing ItemList and UserData tags the same a command like this seems to work (I tried a simpler command without explicit Keys but then the edited UserData tags fail to display):Įxiftool -m -P -overwrite_original_in_place -Keys:DisplayName='Title' -Keys:Description='Description' -Keys:Author='Author' -Title='Title' -ClipFileName='Title' -Description='Description' -Author='Author'.
Clean exif efixtags from video movie#
Keys overrides both ItemList and UserData tags in QuickTime Player and Photos.app and seems to be most robust so it seems it is best to use Keys in movie Titles, Descriptions and Authors in. Keywords : (Binary data 0 bytes, use -b option to extract) The original 'Keys:Keywords' is as follows but Keywords doesn't seem to be supported anyway in movie apps? I can edit them (and add Author) with a command like:Įxiftool -m -P -overwrite_original_in_place -Keys:DisplayName='Title' -Keys:Description='Description' -Keys:Author='Author' -Keys:Keywords='Keyword1,Keyword2'. On the other hand, Photos.app 6.0 can add Titles, Captions and Keywords to movies and export them re-encoded as. Warning: Sorry, UserData:Keywords doesn't exist or isn't writableģ. UnknownThumbnail : (Binary data 123911 bytes, use -b option to extract)Įxiftool -m -P -overwrite_original_in_place -UserData:Keywords='Keyword1,Keyword2'. There is also 'UserData:Keywords' but it is not writable: I can edit them with a command below but after that neither QuickTime Player nor Photos.app display them anymore:Įxiftool -m -P -overwrite_original_in_place -UserData:Title='Title' -UserData:ClipFileName='Title' -UserData:Description='Description' -UserData:Author='Author'. On the other hand, Final Cut Pro 10.5.1 inserts the following tags to. Warning: Sorry, QuickTime:HandlerType doesn't exist or isn't writableĪnd then even if I can successfully add and edit those ItemList tags, QuickTime Player and Photos.app don't display them anymore.Ģ. I can edit those tags but if I delete the last ItemList tag, also that 'QuickTime:HandlerType=Metadata' is removed and I can not add it back:Įxiftool -m -P -overwrite_original_in_place -QuickTime:HandlerType=Metadata.

Those ItemList tags also seem to need 'QuickTime:HandlerType=Metadata' tag so that QuickTime Player and Photos.app can display them: QuickTime Player's Get Info displays the Title, Description and Author and Photos.app 6.0 Title and Description. m4v it exports and I can edit them with a command like:Įxiftool -m -P -overwrite_original_in_place -ItemList:Title='Title' -ItemList:Description='Description' -ItemList:Author='Author' -ItemList:Keyword='Keyword1,Keyword2'. Final Cut Pro 10.5.1 inserts the following tags to H.264 and H.265. I tested this with macOS 11.2.1 Big Sur QuickTime Player and Photos.app 6.0:ġ. Keys seems to be the most robust place to write them.

It seems that currently there are several places to write Title, Description, Author and Keywords in H.264.
