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Lightroom: Metadata Edit Capture Time Is Erratic and Unpredictable
Lightroom 3.4.1 running on Win XP/SP3.
Error when selecting a group of photos in the grid view and then Metadata-->Edit Capture Time.
The capture time is only updated for some of the photos, and the remaining photos' capture times are either unchanged or changed to an unpredictable date/time. Changing metadata for photos individually works fine.
Error when selecting a group of photos in the grid view and then Metadata-->Edit Capture Time.
The capture time is only updated for some of the photos, and the remaining photos' capture times are either unchanged or changed to an unpredictable date/time. Changing metadata for photos individually works fine.
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This conversation has been merged. Please refer the main conversation: Lightroom Classic: Edit Capture Time issue - Need a way to set all photos
selected to same date & time
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Victoria_Bampton_Lightroom_Queen
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Victoria Bampton a.k.a. The Lightroom Queen
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Author of Adobe Lightroom Classic - The Missing FAQ and Adobe Lightroom - Edit Like a Pro books.
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dan_hubert
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I was able to replicate it right away using Nikon D90 DNG images. I selected a group of 15 photos in grid view, used Metadata>"Edit Capture Time">"Adjust to a specified date and time", and specified 7-19-2003 at 12:00:00 pm.
You would expect LR to simply show 7-19-2003 and 12:00:00 pm in all photos, but not so. In this trial, all photos changed date properly, but the times were incorrect, as follows: (the numbering starts from the grid-view top-left selected photo (the "most selected" photo), and proceeds in reading order)
1- 12:00:00 pm
2- 12:01:31 pm
3- 12:13:26 pm
4- 12:14:23 pm
5- 07:34:17 am
6- 07:37:04 am
7- 07:34:47 am
and so on.
Although this is not the exact problem that I experienced yesterday, it is a flavor of the same issue. The times are clearly wrong. This is especially strange because LR attempts to honor the 12:00:00pm time for the first four photos, and then goes haywire.
PS - I enjoy reading your blog, thanks for authoring it !
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John_R_Ellis
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- Set date/time of all photos to the same date/time. Used for photos that don't have any time set, e.g. from a scanner.
- Shift date/time of all photos based on the date/time of the first photo. Used when a camera's clock was wrong by an arbitrary amount of time, e.g. it wasn't set.
- Shift date/time of all photos by a number of hours. Used to adjust for incorrect setting when traveling between time zones.
The Photoshop Elements Organizer has all three, and I found myself using all of them.
As a workaround, you might consider this plugin:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange...
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