Bulk changing capture time

Is there any way to modify the capture time for multiple images relatively easily? I know about Metadata > Edit Capture Time.
The reason I ask is that somehow I had the date set incorrectly on my camera for a recent shoot and have a lot of images post-dated by a year! Would be nice to have these corrected, but I'm not excited about the prospect of repeating the sequence 1800 times, and seems like it would be pretty straightforward to simply subtract one from the year of every image.

Is it now safe to do in LR? It wasn't in 1.0. Or maybe it was if you had a capture time in the EXIF. Scans do not.

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Change capture time of many shots decrement of some minutes...

Hi to all,
I've a proble that drive me crazy.
I've 3 cameras and operators (2 x D700, 1 x D300) and in a wedding session they missed to
synchronize camera's timers, so when D700.a sign 10.53am D700.b sign 10.27 and D300 sign 9.43.
At this point I would like to Syncronize captured time using LR3 feature so every camera shift time
of right values. D700.b -25minutes, D300 -1h10minuts.
How I can obtain that ?
Thank you very much...
PS: the shots are almost 4500 so a manual change of each one is impossible to do...

The edit capture time dialog in LR is somewhat missleading, as you could think that you would set the capture time for all selected photos to the same absolute time when choosing "Adjust to a specified date and time". But then, who would want to do this ...
So LR shows you the original capture time of the most selected image, and adjusts all the selected images by the difference of the original and the changed capture time of the most selected photo.
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland
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How to change "capture time" of multiple photos to a specific time?

Hi guys,
For some reason I'm trying to change "capture time" of multiple photos to a specific time.
I know that there is "Edit Capture Time" feature under Metadata.
But when I try to edit multiple photos, it says that "Modify the capture time stored in the selected photos by entering the correct time adjustment for the photo displayed to the left. Other photos (but not vidieos) will be adjusted by the same amount of time". And it really does.
For example,
If A file's capture time is 1/11/2011
B file's capture time is 1/11/2012
C file's capture time is 1/11/2013
I would like to change their capture time to 1/11/2014. All the three files.
But the current "Edit Capture Time" feature of Lightroom just adds three years to each file like this:
A file's capture time -> 1/11/2014
B file -> 1/11/2015
C file -> 1/11/2016
So their capture times remain as different ones. And this is not I want...
What should I do?
I've googled a lot and tried several programs other than lightroom as well, but the "Capture time" recognized by lightroom could not be changed by other programs.
I would greatly appreciate your help.

softcotton24 wrote:
That's why I posted this.
Sorry - I didn't see where you'd mentioned that you'd chosen the correct option, so I thought best to rule that out first.
Anyway, it sounds like a bug, which can be reported here:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/products/photoshop_family_photoshop_lightro om
In the mean time, you can use exiftool, or try your luck with the exif-write function of the exif-meta plugin, e.g.:
Note: if you use exiftool, you need to save metadata first, make the change, then read metadata in Lightroom, otherwise capture-time changes will be ignored by Lr.
Cheers,
Rob

Can I change Capture time/date globally

I have shots from a trip done with two different cameras, however the time stamps are different by one day and one hour. I would like to globally change the creation date and time on one of the cameras in the Metadata, or perhaps change one and sync with the others. I don't see how this is possible, but maybe there is another program that can do this.
thanks, kb

The Metadata > Edit Capture Time command can adjust a set of photos by the same amount of time:
1. Use the Library Filter bar to search for all the photos taken with just one of the cameras, by filtering in the Metadata browser for Camera or Camera Serial Number.
2. Make sure you're sorting photos by Capture Time (down in the tool bar, View > Tool Bar). Select all the photos from the trip.
3. Do MetaData > Edit Capture Time.
4. Select Adjust To A Specified Date And Time.
5. The Original Time field will show the capture time of the most-selected photo. Change the Corrected Time by one day and one hour.
6. Click Change All -- this will change all of the selected photos by one day and one hour.

How to change capture time?

I had wrong year setting om my camera. Now all shots are 2010 and not in 2012. I tried to change them including check the write settings into raw-files.
The creation date are still 2010 and wrong, when I look at files in the finder.
second: how to move the pictures from the wrong 2010 folder to the 2012?
Thanks for any help of this very difficult and irritating issue.

This link directly takes you through step by step directions:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/lightroom/using/WS57264460-DC72-4a1f-A665-1E90907A9FFD.html
With one or more photos selected in the Grid view, or with a single photo selected in the Filmstrip in Loupe, Compare, or Survey view, do one of the following:
Choose Metadata > Edit Capture Time.
In the Metadata panel with EXIF information displayed, click the arrow in the Date Time field.
In the Edit Capture Time dialog box, select the type of adjustment:
Adjust To A Specified Date And Time Changes the capture time to the date and time you specify.
Shift By Set Number Of Hours (Time Zone Adjust) Changes the capture time by the number of hours you add to or subtract from the original time.
Change To File Creation Date For Each Image Changes the capture time in the camera EXIF data to the file creation date. If you select this option, skip step 3.
In the New Time area of the dialog box, do one of the following:
If you selected Adjust To A Specified Date And Time, type a new date and time in the Corrected Time text box. You can also select the date and time values and then use the Up or Down Arrow buttons to increase or decrease the values.
If you selected Shift By Set Number Of Hours, choose a value from the pop-up menu to adjust the time forward or back.
Important: If more than one photo is selected in the Grid view, Lightroom changes the capture time for the active photo by the specified adjustment. (The active photo is previewed in the Edit Capture Time dialog box.) Other photos in the selection are adjusted by the same amount of time. If more than one photo is selected in the Filmstrip in Loupe, Compare, or Survey view, the capture time is changed only on the active photo.
(Optional) To revert the capture time back to the original, select the photos in the Grid view or the Filmstrip and choose Metadata > Revert Capture Time To Original.
-janelle

Problem exporting metadata after changing capture time

Hello, I've an odd problem with Lightroom (both 1.3 and 1.4).
I've all my digital camera's photos organised with Lightroom. There was no problem until I tried to change some photo's capture time.
In the beginning, the capture time shown by Windows' explorer matched with the one in Lightroom.
But when I changed some photo's capture time, and then saved the new metadata information to the file... the capture time shown by explorer was two hours later than the hour in Lightroom... it's making my crazy.
In addition I detected some things:
- If I told Lightroom to read the file's metadata the issue stayed: the computer showing, for example, 14:00, and Lightroom 12:00.
- If I exported a photo (Lightroom 12:00) the new file also shows 14:00.
First, I thought it could be a problem caused by the timezone (GMT+1) and the Summer's time in Europe (I live in Spain). (It makes 2 hours...).
But the big problem arrived when I discovered that, If I add a tag to the photos, the archive in the computer changes [I've marked that metadata is written automatically]... ¡and shows the correct time! So, it seems that, each time I change a photo's time, I'll need to add and then remove a tag...
Does it have any sense?
I would be very happy if someone could help me. Thank you very much. And sorry for my english.

I'm coming completely crazy...
without changing again the capture time (I won't use that feature again!) now it happens that some of my photos (it seems that they are the last hundreds photos i've taken) show an incorrect time in Lightroom, now one houre more than the real time.
The time in Lightroom is incorrect, but Windows' file shows a correct time. I've done nothing unusual...
What should I do? Stop using Lightroom? I liked it...

Changing capture time

Hi,
I just discovered the time changing functions and tried to get some times corrected but ended being quite confused.
After importing a photo it shows 12:00 o'clock (24h system, i.e. noone). I then adjusted the time +1 hour and LR now says 13:00 o'clock.
Then I write out the XMP metafile, remove the photo from the catalogue (don't delete the file) and manually delete the XMP sidecar. If I now import the photo again, 14:00 o'clock is what LR thinks it was taken. Hu?
Maybe not part of the typical workflow but could nevertheless cause some problems I think. Am I doing something obviously wrong, can someone confirm that behaviour?
Regards,
Johannes

In answer to your questions - you're doing nothing wrong, and it's normal Lightroom behaviour. That's not to say that it's correct bahaviour because it isn't - Lightroom handling of time is broken and has been from day one. Best that you do not use this command.

How can I bulk sort by capture time and bulk rename files off multiple cameras?

I have found many renaming utilities, including bridge, but I have not run across any that allows bulk / batch capture time sort and rename?
I can sort by capture time in Lightroom 3, but when I export it puts the files back in original order....maybe I am doing something wrong....that would not surprise me.
I just tried sorting by Capture Time in LR3 and then exporting and renaming.... renamed but not in the capture time sort order....
so I am open to any suggestions... I shoot 2 cameras 99% of the time so I do not need to change lenses.
Thanx in advance.

How can I bulk rename music files in reverse order from artist - song name to songname - artist.
I actually dont need to rename the actual files.
Its just i have a huge txt list of 100,000 music names that are listed as so.
I wonder if we haven't misunderstood what you were asking for. Could it be that you have not a huge file, but just a huge list of names in many small files. If that's the case, you should rather use the following script instead of the previous one.
Since this script does not rename the files, make a backup of your files before running it.
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end repeat
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        set P to offset of " - " in X
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            set Y to X
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            set Y to text (P + 3) through -1 of X & " - " & text 1 through (P - 1) of X
        end if
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    set eof F2 to 0
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How do I update Date Time Digitized to match an updated Capture Time for a DNG file?

I am updating capture time based on GPS Time (a bit OCD, I know) but when I change Capture Time the Date Time Digitized value does not change. This in in LR 4.3 and is not affected by whether on not the Catalog is set to 'Write date or time changes into proprietary raw files'. Maybe this is a problem for DNG files only.

GreSep wrote: I saw another LR discussion that said that with LR 4.3 updating Capture Time would also update Date Time Digitized but it does not do so for me on my DNGs (and as of last month ALL my images were converted to DNGs).
One or two intermediate versions of LR 3 (perhaps Lr 3.6) set DateTimeDigitized when you gave the Metadata > Edit Capture Time command. But for people managing scans in which the capture time of the original image was different than the scan time, this behavior overwrote their scan times, so Adobe backed out of that change. Before and since those versions, the Metadata > Edit Capture Time command just changes the EXIF:DateTimeOriginal and related fields in XMP and IPTC.

Batch changes to capture time

I noticed today after much confusion that changes to the capture time of multiple images could only be made in the grid view. I was trying to change the capture time of a full folder of images, I was in Loupe view but with all of the images selected in the film strip. It kept changing the capture time on only one image at a time no matter how many images I selected in the film strip.
My question is this, is the requirement to be in grid view some thing that any one else has noticed? Is this deliberate? It caused me quite a lot of confusion until I figured out what was going on.

Thanks for confirming that.
I have made bulk changes before and just never noticed that limitation. I have seen many people give tutorials or type instruction for that kind of thing too and it was never mentioned that they had to switch to grid view, its always just assumed that's where they are starting from, which I guess is why it took me so long to figure out what the problem was this time.

Edit Capture Time - Can't change ALL

When I select a bunch of images and try to change the capture time by an hour (Metadata/Edit Capture Time) there is no check box or button for "change all". I know I've done this in the past, but can't do it now and don't see change all. I'm using LR 5.2 and selecting the images I want to change in grid view. Thanks
Michael

Just a "change" button (see attached) which changes only one image

Capture Time Changed by System Time Zone?

Hi All,
   In Lightroom 1.4, changing the system time in Windows XP changes the capture time!
   This seems crazy...I take photos in different time zones, and have the camera set correctly in that timezone (or adjust it to be correct in Lightroom). I'd rather not change my system timezone to "Bangkok" to correctly see data for photos from Thailand.
   Anyone have a solution or workaround? Is this fixed in LR 2?
Thanks!
   Alex

This post seems to explain a lot.
http://www.lightroomforums.net/index.php?topic=359.msg13336#msg13336
So I'm stuck having Lightroom adjust times based on the timezone of my OS? Or is there a workaround?...maybe saving and re-importing metadata? (Can't get this to work either, even using some complex procedure I found using Exiftools and a batch file...)
I can understand the capture time relying on the OS for timezone at the time of import, but Lightroom should not continuously adjust it every time you view...
Thanks,
   Alex

Change the capture time.

I own a Sony camera with GPS and I use the characteristic to adjust the camera time in relation with the time zone. It is very useful because I can complement the pictures taken with my Nikon DSLR when they have been imported with Lightroom as I organize and rename them with the capture time.
The problem is that Sri Lanka, where I shoot my last pictures has, as India, a half time zone and the Sony do not take into account this special event and I didn’t realize it, so my Sony thought that I was in Dacca and not in Colombo: 30 minutes less.
As result of this situation my pictures have the wrong time and when I import them are wrong placed.
I have found the way to change the capture time with Lightroom but the modification is performed in the catalogue only and not in the EXFIF data as the Sony pictures are JPEG.
Please, is there any way to solve my problem with Lightroom?
Thanking in advance

John, thanks again.
I had forgotten the special behaviour of the Lightroom with the grid view and I had selected the loupe view. In any case I executed the change with the second option that you suggested. By the way, I think that it is a dangerous setting because you can mistake a tag when imported and you can solve the mistake easily in Lightroom (with grid view, of course) but with a lot of work in the windows explorer.
Thank you very much for your help.

How to Change Capture YEAR with Edit Capture Time – Mac OS 10.6

Hello,
I have very frustrating problem with Lightroom 2 (latest version). I have read that it is possible to fully edit the capture time and, crucially, year of a set of photos. Unfortunately, unlike all the FAQs I've read, I have no option to change the year:
FAQ screenshot:
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There is no year option I can see, only month, day of month and time.
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EGP.

I got the correct answer. Included here for posterity.
Well, it's not the file. The file's showing the right settings on mine.
If you look in the Metadata panel, do the dates appear correct there?
And, really odd question of the day... if you go into system preferences > language and text > formats, have you customised any of the formats? I just have a really vague recollection that it had an effect once upon a time.
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I had a custom time set up on my computer. When I was on Leopard you had to edit the date formats to allow the clock that shows in the top right of the menu bar to use the format "weekday/dayofmonth/month/time". That must have been it
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Edit Capture Time

I have seen this issue raised before but I still have a problem. I am using LR 4.1. When I try to change the capture time for a number of photos, it will change it for some and then introduce random dates for others. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong. Sorry if this has been answered before but it is driving me crazy trying to change a large number of dates. If it is a problem can someone suggest some software which I can use.
Thanks
1916Somme

Thanks, so does that mean I cannot bulk change a large number of photos to one date? The problem I have is that I scanned thousands of old negatives. I now want to put them into Lightroom but the capture date is obviously the date the negative was scanned and not the date the photo was taken. I want to change the capture date to the photo taken date. So Edit Capture does not appear to the way to do it. Please does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks

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