Help?

This question is for wedding photographers. When you have your 2nd shooter with you shooting a wedding, how do you synchronize photos after words in a correct timeline.
I find myself spending a lot of time trying to put the timeline of my and my 2nd shooter photos together. Is there an easy way I dont know about?

Any help will be greatly appreciate it.

Sync camera times, do the shoot, import into LR, sort by capture time, export with new filename, or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Did that. Still LR wont doit.

Could it be bc my 2nd shooter camera showing only military time? exp: 20:02 mine is 8:02

Possibly...I don't have a second shooter but I use two bodies to cover events and for some photoshoots and that works for me.

Thanks for the reply.


I will never give up looking for an answer! lol Its taking me hour just to do them in correct timeline and its driving me nuts! lol

I think Military time is the issue. I dont believe LR identify the fact that its 24 hour time. I believe it just sees the times as numbers.

Im thinking so too.

Anyone in here have Canon 6D? Thats the camera my 2nd shooter has. She says she cant change it to the normal time. Any one knows?

Use ExifTools and ExifToolsGui to correct the timestamp in the raw file using an offset you work out. Keep a backup of the original files of course, because you'll probably get it wrong the first time. Try on one raw file. You may need to sort by date created or modified, can't remember. Then rename in LR/Bridge and use the filename sequence for ordering from there on.

PlushGlamour wrote in post #18155493
Im thinking so too.

Anyone in here have Canon 6D? Thats the camera my 2nd shooter has. She says she cant change it to the normal time. Any one knows?

I just checked through the manual, it appears she has no option other than UTC/Military time.
I'll second using ExifTools suggested by Tim.

PlushGlamour wrote in post #18155434
Thanks for the reply.


I will never give up looking for an answer! lol Its taking me hour just to do them in correct timeline and its driving me nuts! lol

I think it would make a lot more sense for you to change your camera to 24-hour clock. It's by far the easiest way for anything digital to operate. I also register my dates in camera as yy/mm/dd. Then you have yy/MM/dd/hh/mm/ss which any computer can sort easily. This AM/PM business causes only pain and confusion - as you have found out!

Hey guys. Thanks for all the replays.

I had a 10 hour wedding yesterday. I had changed mines to 24 hours /military and it worked! Our photos are synced correctly. So much easier to work with this way!