Issue with sort by date taken for videos

mcgilmcgil Registered Users Posts: 110 Major grins
edited July 22, 2009 in SmugMug Support
Hi,

I'm sure I'm not the only one with galleries mixing videos and photos :)

When I choose auto sort by date taken, I always end up with the videos in front of everything else :
http://mcgil.smugmug.com/gallery/8940301_KKXNC

I guess this is because SM cannot extract a date taken from a video ? Is that right ?

Is there a workaround ?

I've tried sorting by filenames and it works ok however you can't use the filename sorting when a gallery contains photos/videos from several cameras (ie Nikon D50 and Panasonic Lumix).

Thanks,

McGil

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2009
    I'm sorry, we don't have a better way for this to work at the present time :(
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  • AlexanderAlexander Registered Users Posts: 53 Big grins
    edited July 22, 2009
    mcgil wrote:
    (...)
    Is there a workaround ?

    I've tried sorting by filenames and it works ok however you can't use the filename sorting when a gallery contains photos/videos from several cameras (ie Nikon D50 and Panasonic Lumix).
    Hi there McGil,

    in cases like this, I take the following steps:

    a) Sync the EXIF timestamps in the pictures (how to do this might take up a whole other thread. We shoot one watch with all cameras we have on scene, then calculate the differences and manipulate the EXIF data).
    b) Batch-rename all pictures, using the timestamp: 2009-07-22-17-52-32.jpg

    c) Apply similar filenames to the videos.


    Then you can sort by filename and have the same effect as sorting by date/time.


    Bye
    Alexander
    Life is different.
  • mcgilmcgil Registered Users Posts: 110 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2009
    Thanks for the advice Alexander.

    Andy, a "quick" fix would be to modify the sort by date logic and look at the file creation timestap for videos (as they don't have exif) ?

    Now that means that your logic would be able to differentiate photos from videos, which might be a problem :)

    McGil
  • darryldarryl Registered Users Posts: 997 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2009
    There's already a general feature request for this: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=129149

    As I mention in the second post in that thread, it would be awesome if SmugMug's uploader was smart enough to recognize the various thumbnail/sidecar files that most cameras now create along with the video. On Canons, these files are named MVI_1234.THM (to go along with MVI_1234.AVI or MOV), and basically have all the date/time info stored in EXIF data, since they are regular JPG images.

    Panasonic cameras apparently use the JPG suffix, and I'm not sure about Nikons.
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