Import images and create albums by Exif "DateTimeOriginal"?

[Daniel-3]

Hello all,


I'm about importing ~45.000 images into Digikam. When I import some from
the harddisk and use date-based album creation, the creation date of the
image is used for that. How is it possible to use the exif
DateTimeOriginal here?


Greetings,


Daniel

[AndriusWild]

Sorry I use Rapid Photo Downloader for import because digiKam does not read metadata from video files but I found these tutorials:

https://scribblesandsnaps.com/2011/06/27/import-photos-in-digikam/
https://userbase.kde.org/Digikam/Import_Photos_in_Digikam/en

Hopefully it helps.

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Daniel <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello all,


I'm about importing ~45.000 images into Digikam. When I import some from
the harddisk and use date-based album creation, the creation date of the
image is used for that. How is it possible to use the exif
DateTimeOriginal here?


Greetings,


Daniel

[Erick Moreno]

When you import pictures from a card or directly from the camera, the creation date of the file and the picture are the same. But, the creation date of the file is way faster to read. Because of this, the default behavior to digikam is to use the creation date of the file. You can change that:

Settings >> Configure Digikam >> Cameras >> Behavior

And mark: Use file metadata (makes connection slower)

This will solve your problem.

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> wrote:

Sorry I use Rapid Photo Downloader for import because digiKam does not read metadata from video files but I found these tutorials:

https://scribblesandsnaps.com/2011/06/27/import-photos-in-digikam/
https://userbase.kde.org/Digikam/Import_Photos_in_Digikam/en

Hopefully it helps.

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Daniel <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello all,


I'm about importing ~45.000 images into Digikam. When I import some from
the harddisk and use date-based album creation, the creation date of the
image is used for that. How is it possible to use the exif
DateTimeOriginal here?


Greetings,


Daniel

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Andrey,

How RPD process to read Exif from video ? It use MediaInfo lib ?

Gilles Caulier

2017-07-17 19:31 GMT+02:00 Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]>:

> Sorry I use Rapid Photo Downloader for import because digiKam does not read
> metadata from video files but I found these tutorials:
>
> https://scribblesandsnaps.com/2011/06/27/import-photos-in-digikam/
> https://userbase.kde.org/Digikam/Import_Photos_in_Digikam/en
>
> Hopefully it helps.
>
> Best regards,
>
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Daniel <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>> I'm about importing ~45.000 images into Digikam. When I import some from
>> the harddisk and use date-based album creation, the creation date of the
>> image is used for that. How is it possible to use the exif
>> DateTimeOriginal here?
>>
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>

[AndriusWild]

Gilles,

Here is what I got from the developer awhile ago:

"Between ExifTool and MediaInfo, I don't know which is most reliable in extracting video metadata. All I do know is that based on user reports, ExifTool sometimes gets it wrong e.g. with Sony HV400 files. MediaInfo is not perfect either. Consequently Rapid Photo Downloader uses the output of both:"

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dlynch3/rapid/zeromq_pyqt/view/head:/raphodo/metadatavideo.py#L144

It seems to be working because video files go to correct folders for me.

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> wrote:

Andrey,

How RPD process to read Exif from video ? It use MediaInfo lib ?

Gilles Caulier

2017-07-17 19:31 GMT+02:00 Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]>:
> Sorry I use Rapid Photo Downloader for import because digiKam does not read
> metadata from video files but I found these tutorials:
>
> https://scribblesandsnaps.com/2011/06/27/import-photos-in-digikam/
> https://userbase.kde.org/Digikam/Import_Photos_in_Digikam/en
>
> Hopefully it helps.
>
> Best regards,
>
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Daniel <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>> I'm about importing ~45.000 images into Digikam. When I import some from
>> the harddisk and use date-based album creation, the creation date of the
>> image is used for that. How is it possible to use the exif
>> DateTimeOriginal here?
>>
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>