How to customize CaptureDate for an image?
timatlee opened this issue · comments
Is it possible to customize the CaptureDate for an image or video? Setting it in the imagename.md file does not seem to have any bearing.
What do you mean by CaptureDate, the EXIF date of a photo or is it a specific EXIF keyword ?
I suppose I want to define the CaptureDate of a video, which doesn't have an EXIF field.
In my sigal site, photos are being ordered by capture date. This is working great for photos, but an included video is sorted by its modified timestemp (since it doesn't carry EXIF fields).
I was wondering if there was a way I could define the CaptureDate in the video's associated Markdown file so that I could force it in order?
It's not possible to overwrite an EXIF field, but you could check in your template and fallback to the manually defined metadata if the EXIF field is empty/undefined.
That works for the displaying the date in the album, but the video file is out of sort order.
My scenario is a Christmas album - I have a kids Christmas show on December 9th (for example), and photos from Christmas morning on the 25th. The video of the kids show is placed at the end of the album after Christmas morning.
If it's not possible, that's cool. Something I can explore to fix on my own, I suppose :)
I wanted to check that it wasn't a "me" thing not using the tool correctly.
Yep, it's not possible currently, but a PR to allow overriding some EXIF/IPTC metadata would be welcome ;)
Done in #447 for videos.