After transferring months-worth of media (jpg, mp4, m4a) to my computer, i just realized that videos nor audio display timestamps in Windows Properties. (-_-;) The only indication of a timestamp is the ‘Created’ Date, but in my experience this has been totally inaccurate at times, so i don’t trust it.
Is this the actual Created date...?
Some useful info, but no timestamp
No timestamp here either !
I noticed, however, if i transferred the same file back to my memory card, and looked at it on my camera it shows the correct (original) timestamp.
Shows the correct date (8.05.2010 3:49)
To view the file’s metadata, simply drag the file onto the exiftool executable icon, and a command-line window pops-up with the relevant info:
*Upon some reflection, i don’t think there is any embedded info about the created date; exiftool simply displays the same info as the Windows Properties above (which defeats the purpose of finding a metadata viewing tool). I would need to read some more documentation about how exiftool generates this info, and/or test-editing the date and seeing if/how that changes the exiftool date.
Timestamps aside, there’s some interesting—and possibly useful—info here too, such as aperture, ISO, bitrates..
-2010-09-19 .704
~I also came across this posting in my search, which recommends AudioShell, but exiftool works for me atm, so i have yet to try it. If you have experience using AudioShell, let me know how it works (or doesn’t) for you.
References:
view mp4 metadata sanyo - Google Search http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=view+mp4+metadata+sanyo
ExifTool by Phil Harvey http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
What MP4 metadata tag editor are you using? - SprintUsers.com http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=181324
ID3 tag editor - AudioShell freeware music files tag editor - direct tag editing from Windows Explorer http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm
