{"id":777,"date":"2018-11-24T11:24:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T18:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.1.201\/?p=777"},"modified":"2018-11-24T11:24:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T18:24:45","slug":"copy-video-create-date-from-original-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/24\/copy-video-create-date-from-original-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Copy video create date from original file"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the companion script for: Video re-encode script<\/a><\/p>\n

It uses exiftool<\/a><\/strong> to copy the video date atom(s) and setfile<\/strong> (is or was included with Apple’s Developer Tools) to change the file system dates. It will more than likely throw exiftool “File not found” errors and I’m not quite sure why. It has never failed to actually work despite this in my experience, however be very careful to not use this on your original source videos.<\/p>\n

Hopefully the settings and prompts make sense.<\/p>\n

(* http:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/<\/p>\n

This uses Apple's command line developer tools command 'setfile' to set the filesytem dates.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/download\/more\/<\/p>\n

I believe an Apple Developer account is required for that, but I am not sure.<\/p>\n

Uses 'exiftool' to set track date atoms.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.sno.phy.queensu.ca\/~phil\/exiftool\/<\/p>\n

*)<\/p>\n

-- Set to 'false' to omit initial dialog prompts. Does not affect final confirmation prompt.
\nproperty prompt_me : true<\/p>\n

-- UTC timezone. Leave blank (\"\") to not use the timezone setting.
\nproperty tzone : \"-8:00\"<\/p>\n

on run
\n\tdo_it(false)
\nend run<\/p>\n

on do_it(redo)
\n\trepeat
\n\t\tif tzone is not \"\" then set tzone to \"-timezone=\\\"\" & tzone & \"\\\" \" -- There is a trailing space here.
\n\t\tif prompt_me is true then
\n\t\t\tif button returned of (display dialog \"Choose a TARGET file to set creation and modification dates of.\") is \"OK\" then
\n\t\t\t\tset newfile to choose file with prompt \"Select TARGET file to set creation and modified dates of:\"
\n\t\t\tend if
\n\t\telse
\n\t\t\tset newfile to choose file with prompt \"Select TARGET file to set creation and modified dates of:\"
\n\t\tend if<\/p>\n

\t\tset filepath to newfile as string
\n\t\tif prompt_me is true then
\n\t\t\tif button returned of (display dialog \"Choose a SOURCE file to *get* creation and modification dates from.\") is \"OK\" then
\n\t\t\t\tset oldfile to choose file with prompt \"Select SOURCE file to get dates from: \" & filepath
\n\t\t\tend if
\n\t\telse
\n\t\t\tset oldfile to choose file with prompt \"Select SOURCE file to get dates from: \" & filepath
\n\t\tend if
\n\t\tset newfilename to name of (info for of newfile)
\n\t\tif newfilename is not (name of (info for of oldfile)) then
\n\t\t\tset warn_button to button returned of (display alert \"File names do not match. Proceed?\" as warning buttons {\"Cancel\", \"Start Over\", \"Proceed\"})
\n\t\t\tif warn_button is \"Cancel\" then
\n\t\t\t\treturn
\n\t\t\telse
\n\t\t\t\tif warn_button is \"Start Over\" then
\n\t\t\t\t\tset redo to true
\n\t\t\t\t\texit repeat
\n\t\t\t\tend if
\n\t\t\tend if
\n\t\tend if
\n\t\ttell application \"System Events\" to set [c_date, m_date] to [creation date of oldfile, modification date of oldfile]
\n\t\tset [p_date_c, p_date_m] to [c_date, m_date] -- Saving \"pretty\" date for dialog prompt.
\n\t\tset c_date to ((month of c_date as integer) & \"\/\" & day of c_date & \"\/\" & year of c_date & \" \" & hours of c_date & \":\" & minutes of c_date & \":\" & seconds of c_date) as string
\n\t\tlog c_date
\n\t\tset m_date to ((month of m_date as integer) & \"\/\" & day of m_date & \"\/\" & year of m_date & \" \" & hours of m_date & \":\" & minutes of m_date & \":\" & seconds of m_date) as string
\n\t\tlog m_date
\n\t\tif button returned of (display dialog \"This will set the creation and modification dates of file \" & filepath & \" to:\" & return & return & p_date_c & return & p_date_m & return & return & \"Proceed?\") is \"OK\" then
\n\t\t\ttry
\n\t\t\t\t-- Have to include full path to exiftool binary because AppleScript uses the Bourne shell which doesn't have \/usr\/local\/bin in its path? *rolls eyes*
\n\t\t\t\tdo shell script \"\/usr\/local\/bin\/exiftool \" & tzone & \"-*date=\\\"`\/usr\/local\/bin\/exiftool -time:CreateDate \" & quoted form of POSIX path of oldfile & \"`\\\" -wm w \" & quoted form of POSIX path of newfile
\n\t\t\ton error theErr
\n\t\t\t\t-- Will throw a \"File not found\" error if this takes over a certain amount of time. rm must be running faster than exiftool can finish?
\n\t\t\t\tdisplay dialog \"The 'exiftool' command said: \" & theErr
\n\t\t\tend try
\n\t\t\tdelay 1
\n\t\t\ttry
\n\t\t\t\t-- Ready for this, exiftool adds \"_original\" to the end of the file it's going to modify tags\/atoms of. This is still 'newfile' but with a new name.
\n\t\t\t\t-- If we manually add \"_original\" to 'newfile' rm will throw an error looking for newfile_original_original... Wha?
\n\t\t\t\tdo shell script \"rm \" & quoted form of POSIX path of newfile
\n\t\t\ton error theErr
\n\t\t\t\tdisplay dialog \"The 'rm' command said: \" & theErr
\n\t\t\tend try
\n\t\t\tdelay 1
\n\t\t\ttry
\n\t\t\t\t-- Ready again? The original path to 'newfile' is valid again for this... Wha??
\n\t\t\t\tdo shell script \"setfile -d '\" & c_date & \"' -m '\" & m_date & \"' \" & quoted form of POSIX path of newfile
\n\t\t\ton error theErr
\n\t\t\t\tdisplay dialog \"The 'setfile' command said: \" & theErr
\n\t\t\tend try
\n\t\tend if
\n\t\texit repeat
\n\tend repeat
\n\tif redo then do_it(false)
\nend do_it<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the companion script for: Video re-encode script It uses exiftool to copy the video date atom(s) and setfile (is or was included with Apple’s Developer Tools) to change the file system dates. It will more than likely throw exiftool “File not found” errors and I’m not quite sure why. It has never failed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,24,28],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","tag-applescript-2","tag-macos","tag-os-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}