How can I change time in metadata?

Hey all,

My partner and I just finished shooting an event and our camera's times are a bit off by 1 hour. To make sorting and editing easier, I want to adjust my RAW files' shoot time. Is this possible?

What software do you have? Lightroom has a date/time adjustment function, but I don't know about other apps for Raw files.

tonylong wrote in post #13976861
What software do you have? Lightroom has a date/time adjustment function, but I don't know about other apps for Raw files.

I have Adobe's CS5 creative suite and Lightroom. I'll look into LR and see if I can change the settings, thanks!

In the Lightroom Library module check the Metadata/Edit Capture Time function. I believe it does save the changes to the file, although you may want to check the Lightroom Help for specifics.

http://jpgtime.learsy.​com/ - works for RAW too apparently.

tonylong wrote in post #13976947
In the Lightroom Library module check the Metadata/Edit Capture Time function. I believe it does save the changes to the file, although you may want to check the Lightroom Help for specifics.

Thanks! I managed to push my time ahead by an hour which worked perfectly.

tim wrote in post #13977517
http://jpgtime.learsy.​com/ - works for RAW too apparently.

Thanks for the help! I think I've got this handled, now. Good stuff.

EOSBoy wrote in post #13977658
Thanks! I managed to push my time ahead by an hour which worked perfectly.

Glad it worked!

Did you verify that the Raw file was indeed modified, just by using the Change dialog? I'm asking 'cause I haven't messed with it myself, and am wondering if you would have to do a "Save Metadata to File" command...?

tonylong wrote in post #13978070
Glad it worked!

Did you verify that the Raw file was indeed modified, just by using the Change dialog? I'm asking 'cause I haven't messed with it myself, and am wondering if you would have to do a "Save Metadata to File" command...?

"Save Metadata to File" is the command to write an xmp file. It has nothing to do with the original RAW.

tzalman wrote in post #13978193
"Save Metadata to File" is the command to write an xmp file. It has nothing to do with the original RAW.

Yeah, I know that's what it's designed to do...I just seemed to recall that you may need to do something "extra" with the Capture Style change, but like I said I never tried it and was curious...

tonylong wrote in post #13979822
Yeah, I know that's what it's designed to do...I just seemed to recall that you may need to do something "extra" with the Capture Style change, but like I said I never tried it and was curious...

Hmm good point. I'll have to check it out. As far as my workflow, it allowed me to put everything in order which works out just fine. I'll have my partner export the files and we'll see if they're still in order. I can't remember if there was a save option but I'll take a look.

If you Export it will definitely save the changes. My question is to whether the changes were saved into the original Raw file. For example, if you look at the Raw in something like DPP or Photoshop, will it show the correct capture time?

You should be able to check also by just looking at the date/time in your file browser.

But, if you only work on the original in Lightroom it shouldn't matter, since other stuff won't care until it's exported.

tonylong wrote in post #13984812
If you Export it will definitely save the changes. My question is to whether the changes were saved into the original Raw file. For example, if you look at the Raw in something like DPP or Photoshop, will it show the correct capture time?

You should be able to check also by just looking at the date/time in your file browser.

But, if you only work on the original in Lightroom it shouldn't matter, since other stuff won't care until it's exported.

Ohhhh, okay. That makes sense. I just changed the time, exported the jpeg and went back to check on the .CR2 file's properties and the time was still intact.