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Title: Exif time change
Post by: ShadySue on April 21, 2013, 08:51

I did the idiot thing and forgot to change the time on one of my cameras, which is important for editorial (looks as though I took some daylight shots in the middle of the night). I've got a couple of hundred files to change.
I've Googled and see quite a few old suggestions about what to use to sort this (I don't have LR). Some are expensive and do much more than I need, and some of the free ones are too techy (command line etc), so scary.
Has anyone got experience of a cheap and easy prog/app/utility to change a batch of EXIF date/times?

TIA

Title: Re: Exif time change
Post by: klsbear on April 21, 2013, 09:16

Did you look into Adobe's monthly plan for Creative Cloud?  I think you can get a one month subscription and use LR to take care of what you need.

Title: Re: Exif time change
Post by: disorderly on April 21, 2013, 09:23

Graphic Converter for Mac OS X does this.  It has options for both setting the time and adjusting it forward or back by whatever value you request.  And it can apply changes to sets of images.  It's inexpensive and convenient for a bunch of tasks.  But no help if you're on Windows.

Title: Re: Exif time change
Post by: Poncke on April 21, 2013, 09:32

There is a ton of free open source exif editors. Just google open source exif editor.

Title: Re: Exif time change
Post by: mattdixon on April 21, 2013, 17:26

You can do it in Lightroom.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/1.0/help.html?content=WS57264460-DC72-4a1f-A665-1E90907A9FFD.html (http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/1.0/help.html?content=WS57264460-DC72-4a1f-A665-1E90907A9FFD.html)

Title: Re: Exif time change
Post by: Poncke on April 21, 2013, 17:28

She doesnt have LR as mentioned in her OP

Title: Re: Exif time change
Post by: mattdixon on April 21, 2013, 17:37

Oops, scrap that idea then.

Title: Re: Exif time change
Post by: alberto on April 21, 2013, 17:47

If I recall right you have a Mac. Try iPhoto if I remember you can select more than a picture with "command" and then change in batch all the pictures with the same date. Yes is possible in iPhoto... http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2365?viewlocale=en_US (http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2365?viewlocale=en_US)

Title: Re: Exif time change
Post by: ShadySue on April 21, 2013, 18:03

No, not a Mac, a PC.

Title: Re: Exif time change
Post by: alberto on April 21, 2013, 18:11

Time ago there were exifer, is free but not updated. It was used a lot and affidable. Never used but seems that for change the date another solution can be Exif Date Changer

Title: Re: Exif time change
Post by: Pilens on April 21, 2013, 21:04

I use ExifTools for such tasks.

Title: Re: Exif time change
Post by: gillian vann on April 21, 2013, 21:06

surely if such a thing can be done in LR it can be done in Bridge/ACR (are you using ACR?)

Title: Re: Exif time change
Post by: LesHoward on April 21, 2013, 22:02

Don't the Nikon & Canon raw converters do this?

Title: Re: Exif time change
Post by: Travelling-light on April 21, 2013, 23:44

Quote from: ShadySue on April 21, 2013, 08:51

I did the idiot thing and forgot to change the time on one of my cameras, which is important for editorial (looks as though I took some daylight shots in the middle of the night). I've got a couple of hundred files to change.
I've Googled and see quite a few old suggestions about what to use to sort this (I don't have LR). Some are expensive and do much more than I need, and some of the free ones are too techy (command line etc), so scary.
Has anyone got experience of a cheap and easy prog/app/utility to change a batch of EXIF date/times?

TIA

ExifToolGUI from http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/~bogdan/exiftoolgui515.zip (http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/~bogdan/exiftoolgui515.zip)

You can define a time shift and apply it to a batch of photos. Very useful for forgetful globetrotters - been there, done that, got the dodgy timestamps!